The middle -
class couple earns $ 50,000 each (by the way, this $ 100,000 of household income is still much higher than the median Canadian household income of $ 76,000), and spends collectively $ 60,000 a year.
Not exact matches
A typical middle -
class couple with their home paid off needs only about 50 % to 60 % of the income they
earned earlier in life to live an equivalent lifestyle.
If you're a typical middle -
class couple with your home paid off, you'll only need about 50 % to 60 % of the income you
earned much earlier in life to live an equivalent lifestyle.
For a normal middle
class family in the points world, a typical year can
earn you about 1 trip for a small family, or maybe 2 trips for a
couple without kids.
If you
coupled that with another card like the Gold offering 50K, then all of a sudden you're not far off from
earning business
class tickets.
Just getting one of those cards can
earn you enough miles to cover your trip in economy and getting the bonuses from a
couple of them can get you really close to having a business
class ticket waiting to take you to Israel.
The card also comes with an annual companion ticket for coach domestic travel in the cheapest fare
classes — this can easily save you a
couple hundred dollars and the main ticket still
earns miles / upgrades (the companion does not).
A job seeker may have taken a
couple of
classes at some school, and try to make it look like they
earned a degree instead.
Should you have to be a certain age,
earn a certain income, have a life plan, make premarital counseling mandatory, wait a certain amount of time after applying for a marriage license, take a test (of what, I'm not sure, but go with me here), take parenting
classes if you plan to have kids (since society doesn't seem to care too much about childfree
couples who divorce), learn how to communicate about finances, or all of the above?
After personally teaching
classes to thousands of
couples and singles from all walks of life and stages of relationship and training more than a thousand course instructors throughout the country, I have a good idea of what makes that possible and why our approach consistently
earns the highest praise from course participants.