The wife comes home to find the husband started a fire while trying to cook a meal.

Do you know how to take meal deductions?

But this seems to be fading in interest for me. @Al

I stopped going out on weekends, buying overpriced drinks, and started preparing all of my own meals at home.

If you can't afford to live in a particular city anymore, you complain, you get more jobs - or you move somewhere you can afford.And if you have to spend half of your income on housing - and/or choose to do so in an expensive area, you just cut back on other things.It's not the end of the world to "have to" watch movies on Amazon Prime or Netflix instead of going out, or cooking your own meals at home.I live on practically nothing and I do just fine. 

NONE of them are proposing doing away with their free meal tickets at taxpayer expense.

Originally posted by @J Scott:You know, the countries that have the largest military budgets also tend to have the highest rates of obesity...should we cut our military budgets in order to get healthier? 

I see people online asking stuff like, can they live in Thailand on $500 a month or $1,000 a month and I'm like, "Yeah, if you like living in an apartment with no aircon, eating street food 3 meals a day 7 days a week, and think sitting in a bar complaining for an hour that the price of beer has gone up 14 cents is fun."   

If is for this reason we typically rent month-to-month to our foreign students {it is also typically their preference}.With our Chinese students in particular, we have found that meeting their obligations (i.e. paying their rent on time) has a large honour factor behind it and many would go without 3-meals/day before they would fail to pay rent.To put it in context, if our Canadian students - or our native born rental population in general - were as dependable as our foreign students, we would almost never have an eviction.

Kids would stash their free lunch meals into their backpacks so they could feed their parents.In contrast, my wife later taught public elementary school in a wealthy area in Seattle.