A Cuban woman in Texas shared on her TikTok profile (@gabriela93jesusmylive) a video breaking down her monthly expenses to adjust her budget, expressing the difficulty in reducing her fixed costs.
"And here I am, like every month, doing the math; this is something that even gives me a migraine," she confesses while showing her notebook where she records each payment. The Cuban explains that along with her family of four, they live in a two-bedroom apartment that costs them 1,385 dollars monthly, with all services included: water, electricity, and pest control. Additionally, she pays 100 dollars for the internet and 200 for phone services.
Gabriela mentions that she has two vehicles, for which she pays monthly installments of 650 and 490 dollars, plus 380 dollars for insurance. This is compounded by other expenses such as Netflix (20 dollars), gasoline (240 dollars a month), and groceries, which range between 400 and 500 dollars for a household of four people.
Among other expenses, it also includes a student loan, extra purchases, hygiene products, and money transfers to Cuba. Despite her efforts to control her finances, she claims that she doesn't know where else she can cut costs to ease the monthly financial burden. "I no longer know where else I can save," comments this Cuban woman.
A situation in which, like her, more Cubans find themselves. This is what they commented in the comments of the post, where they left messages like: "Folks, everyone manages their money in their own way, but I ask: Why 200 or 300 for Cuba? And MONTHLY? People, with the current exchange rate in Cuba, that's a lot of money, no way, I'm out, not with me," "What’s killing you are the car payments, try to put a little more into the principal so you can finish paying it off quickly," "I spend 280 weekly on food, there are 5 of us," "I also have the never-ending grocery list, I’m at the point where I open it and cry," "You need to have a second job," or "I think we are all in the same boat and nothing goes down, everything keeps going up, this is not even half of what it was 11 years ago."
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