# TV Characters Who Actually Live Within Their Means

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-who-actually-live-within-their-means/379087>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 4, 2006, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-who-actually-live-within-their-means/379087 "2006-11-04T14:10:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-who-actually-live-within-their-means/379087/121 "2006-11-09T13:04:54Z")

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[QUOTE=Raguleader]  
I’m just gonna assume he makes money on the side selling cocaine for the Drug Cartels. 😃  
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Or blackmailing his rich in-the-closet lovers!

All the “NYC-millionaires-who-suddenly-take-in-orphan-children” are living within their means: Uncle Bill on Family Affair, Mr. Drummond on Different Strokes, and no doubt some others.

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-who-actually-live-within-their-means/379087/122 "2006-11-09T15:17:59Z")

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[QUOTE=BiblioCat]  
Carrie needed money for the down payment. She and Miranda were shoe-shopping, while Carrie was whining about not knowing where her money went. Miranda picked up a pair of Manolos, and said something like, “You have 100 pairs of these at $400 a pop? There’s your down payment.”  
Carrie says, “But that’s only $4,000” and Miranda kindly explains, “No, that’s $40,000!” Carrie is horrified.  
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I recently saw an episode of “Big Spender” where the woman has, at the host’s count, 200 pairs of shoes, at average $300 a pop. He’s says, “That’s $60,000!” and she looks horrified. [It turns out she had about 400 pairs.] Clearly basic math escaped this woman in her compulsive shopping haze. It was a wonder that she was only in debt to $40K.

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