Unfortunately most Americans are ill-equipped for retirement and she estimates that 49 percent of middle-class workers will live on a food budget of less than $5 a day — poverty-like conditions

If you just did this work full time as a contractor on other people's properties I think you could make way more then the $40 profit in 2 years (+ free living while you do it).Or continue to do flips but oversee the work on yours and several properties at once and leverage that skill into more profit.Just food for thought as to how you can take that passion and skill that you have and make it work for you even more.

:)That works for me, I'm a mortgage processor today, tomorrow I'll be an investigator, but only in the morning, later I'll be on call to render first aid to swimmers at the lake as an emergency technician.

We did have to raise the amount as food prices have gone up.

I have watched the gas turn on and appears to be heating the water, however, when i come back an hour later - all is off, so either the gas is shutting off during the heating process, or the water gets to temperature and then everything turns off.

I was in India about a year ago and enjoyed it tremendously, especially the food.

Like the image that Whole Foods tries to portray.

A new Whole Foods was recently announced in a neighborhood surrounded by blighted and vacant properties.

Recently, a Whole Foods was announced in a low income area - very interesting!

Just food for thought.