Jeff and I used to talk about how much we spent—as opposed to saving, taxes, and giving. At least for public communication, this got pretty confusing (because it’s really easy to misremember “these people spend x%” as “these people keep x% and give the rest away.”) Then people could very reasonably be annoyed that we were being presented as keeping less than we really do, once you include savings.
Now we instead talk about how much we keep (although that includes taxes) vs. how much we give.
Jeff and I used to talk about how much we spent—as opposed to saving, taxes, and giving. At least for public communication, this got pretty confusing (because it’s really easy to misremember “these people spend x%” as “these people keep x% and give the rest away.”) Then people could very reasonably be annoyed that we were being presented as keeping less than we really do, once you include savings.
Now we instead talk about how much we keep (although that includes taxes) vs. how much we give.