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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Datt" data-source="post: 1288849" data-attributes="member: 8710">I think you guys were missing the question.  He wants to know how much gold it would cost average Joe farmer to feed and clothe his family for 1 year, I think.  To make things easy I set 1 year equal to 12 months, each month having 3 10 day weeks.So based on 7 people, say they each get 1 new set of clothes a year, that would be 7 silver.Then saying they raise most of thier own food but still need to buy other things an average cost of about 2 silver per day for the whole family.  That would be 720 silver for the year.Then say they have 1 horse/mule to help with the plowing and what not, feed for that horse is 5 copper per day, leading to a total of 180 silver for the year.So between food, clothes and feed it would be about 91 gold for the year or 2 gold, 5 silver per week.</blockquote>