<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2532564235032132414</id><updated>2011-11-27T16:34:27.862-08:00</updated><category term='cash'/><category term='Five Dollars A Day'/><category term='budget'/><category term='rich'/><category term='job hunt'/><category term='money'/><title type='text'>Five Dollars A Day</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://five-dollars-a-day.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2532564235032132414/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://five-dollars-a-day.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>The Author</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2532564235032132414.post-3982017595134665832</id><published>2009-03-17T21:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-17T21:55:27.674-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='job hunt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rich'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Five Dollars A Day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cash'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='budget'/><title type='text'>Five Dollars A Day - Why This Blog?</title><content type='html'>I was looking at the want ads, listening to the TV, and the economic news was and is bleak.  Unemployment is at a 26 year high, a search on the internet for my field reveals 6 positions in metro Los Angeles, and the GDP is dropping like a stone.  I was thinking that if I could only live on much less, reduce my expenses, but keep some of my former income - just $15,000 per year with the right expense base will be living like a king.  For what ever reason Five Dollars a day became the figure in my mind.  That is $150 a month.  Very little money.  How is it possible to live on such a small amount?  How could anyone live on Five Dollars a Day and have anything close to a normal American lifestyle?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Would you want to live on Five Dollars A Day  Would it even be a life worth living?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2532564235032132414-3982017595134665832?l=five-dollars-a-day.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://five-dollars-a-day.blogspot.com/feeds/3982017595134665832/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://five-dollars-a-day.blogspot.com/2009/03/five-dollars-day-why-this-blog.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2532564235032132414/posts/default/3982017595134665832'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2532564235032132414/posts/default/3982017595134665832'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://five-dollars-a-day.blogspot.com/2009/03/five-dollars-day-why-this-blog.html' title='Five Dollars A Day - Why This Blog?'/><author><name>The Author</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
