What Does $60 Buy?
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (112717)
United States
July 8, 2025 9:04am CST
From time to time I like to justify what I do here on myLot for my measly $5 a month when I make payout, which I normally do, and sometimes a little more than that. But of course, if I do make payout each month, that puts an extra $60 in my pocket at the end of the year.
Still nothing to write home about. But when I break it down a bit and see what I could buy with $60, it does help to say to myself, "Okay, it's still worth doing," despite the other side of it which is that I really do enjoy my interactions here.
So, based on current best price, picking out individual items, here's how much of each item I could buy with $60. You might be surprised.
50 loaves of wheat bread (Ruler Foods)
23 dozen eggs (Aldi)
122 boxes of macaroni and cheese (Ruler Foods)
18 gallons of gas (Zephyr)
2 1/2 tanks of propane (anywhere)
30 pounds of pork steaks (Walmart)
38 pounds of bone in chicken thighs (Ruler Foods)
45 pounds of potato salad (Walmart)
35 heads of lettuce (Aldi)
23 gallons of milk (Walmart)
122 packs of mild taco seasoning (Ruler Foods)
30 packs of 10 count flour tortillas (anywhere)
60 pounds of Jasmine rice (Walmart)
8 $7 value meal deals (Dairy Queen)
13 pounds of ham lunch meat (Walmart)
31 packs of 12 count Swiss cheese slices (Aldi)
35 8 ounce packages of shredded cheese (Aldi)
60 PowerAdes (Walmart)
48 bottles of cranberry juice (Dollar Tree)
4 cans of 40.3 ounce cans of Great Value coffee (Walmart)
3 30-packs of Miller Lite beer (Casey's)
35 14 ounce kielbasas (Aldi)
12 24 count Bar-S bun length hot dogs (Ruler Foods)
5 8 count boxes of Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches (Walmart)
46 Knorr sides (Walmart)
150 pounds of Russet potatoes (Ruler Foods)
I could go on, but you get the idea. $60 doesn't seem like much, but when you break it down and see what you can actually buy with it, it does help the perspective a little bit.
Granted, any money I earn from here goes right into my investments. So, how much does $60 earn in a year for me? $3.60. So, in that sense, $60 buys me nearly 4 bucks.
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Those are some expensive sweets, though. lol
@Marilynda1225 (91013)
• United States
8 Jul
When you break it down like that it does seem like you can get a lot for that $60.
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@noni1959 (13009)
• United States
8 Jul
I was careful at the store today to get extras for our camping and spent $65 that fit in one bag. I make payout maybe three times a year but I can't be on here often either. Even $5 is exciting though. That is a treat or box of cereal. Milk. Eggs.
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@noni1959 (13009)
• United States
9 Jul
@porwest I toss in my pennies and pick up any I see on the ground. Silver goes in a jar and use it for laundry when camping. It does add up and you don't miss it when tossing in the jar. I don't spend much but still wind up with close to $100 at Christmas time to use.
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@porwest (112717)
• United States
9 Jul
Like I always say, money is money, and every penny counts for something. I often refer to the penny jar concept, or even the coin jar. When you take your change and toss it into a jar it really adds up and does so faster than most people think. 10 cents here and 90 cents there at the end of the year could add up to hundreds of dollars a year. When I look at my earnings summary since I started on here, it's roughly $700. Nothing to write home about, but it's $700 that's been added to my bottom line somewhere, and certainly it helped in some way or another, especially considering I invested it and earn somewhere around $42 a year on it.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
8 Jul
When my husband passed, I got half of his pension from 3M (one of his first jobs when he got out of the service). It's $18 something. People think that's nothing; but anything helps.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
10 Jul
@porwest I also got half of his pension from Morton Salt. When he signed up for his pension, he agreed to take less so that if he passed, I would get half.
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@porwest (112717)
• United States
10 Jul
@LindaOHio Nice. How much is that if you don't mind me asking? If i remember correctly, you also worked for Morton for many years. Do you get a pension too?
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@porwest (112717)
• United States
9 Jul
As I always say, every penny counts. Nice that they did that, since so far as I know, it's rare that a pension is "transferrable." It's part of the reason I do what I do here. It's not going to change my life in any way getting that extra $5 or so a month. BUT, at the same time, it's $5 a month I would not otherwise have and while it's not life changing in any way, it DOES contribute to the bottom line, even if in a very tiny way, and of course what matters even more than the $5 itself is where it goes and what it does later.
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