National Average 2007 MSN Money had an article yesterday on how to save $10,000 in 2009.  The article didn’t interest me much (the suggestions are either impractical for us, or we’ve already done them,) but the pie chart of the average spending by familes in 2007 caught my eye.  I decided to make my own pie chart for last years spending and to compare them: What we earn We fall more or less into the Average pretax income. Our household size is 5, double the national average

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What We Spend Compared to the National Average