I Earn Six Figures But Can't Afford a $2 Snack

Grocery shopping with my girlfriend.

I wanted to buy a bottle of water, and she said I was being wasteful.

Then she turned around and filled a whole cart with pricey fruit and imported snacks for her foster brother.

At checkout I grabbed a two-dollar bag of beef jerky.

"Sebastian doesn't like that."

Naomi Swanson didn't even look up. She lifted the jerky right back out.

I put it back in the cart.

"It's for me."

"Still no. Sebastian doesn't like the smell of it. Last time you ate that stuff it bothered him for days. Besides, it'll just give you breakouts."