Spending

[S O F I]

Do you keep close track of your spending?

I use Mint. It's a great tool. How much do you spend on alcohol per month? I spent $393 dollars on alcohol last month. Much higher than my average. I've been spending about $200 a month for the last 18 months.

 

[Jokerman]

I spent $393 dollars on alcohol last month..

What a waste. You could have spent that on Air Max sneakers instead.

 

[dilla]

My main expenditure is food and cigarettes. I buy about three to four cartons of cigarettes a month and each at about $18-25 a carton. So $100, tops on stupid shit. Meal plan at the restaurant is $230 for 26 meals. I feel I should be spending less, but as you have clearly shown, I could be doing worse with an alcohol addiction instead of a nicotinic one.

 

[S O F I]

What a waste. You could have spent that on Air Max sneakers instead.

I know, right? But then I'd be sober wearing air maxes and needing copious amounts of alcohol to hide the embarrassment that comes with wearing them. lol. aron-oriented joke

 

[S O F I]

drinks are expensive. wait till you take your nicotine addiction back to Chicago and pay 60-80 a carton.

since i only drink on the weekends, that could be divided by 8 days. which is like 50 bucks a night. which is a pretty small amount for a night. a drink for you and two friends is already 25 bucks.

 

[dilla]

I dip, bitch. I have a control on my addiction.



I think.

 

[ARon]

I don't budget at all. I'd probably have a lot more money if I did, but whatevs. I'll worry about that when I'm like 40 and it's too late to save for retirement, like every other American

 

[S O F I]

I don't budget either but I enjoy tracking my spending.

 

[Shadows]

I just use my card and my bank does it for me.

I used to use most of my spending on school, now im out of school, and use most of my spending on school. -__-

 

[Pittsey]

I don't really track my spending. But my bank gives me a breakdown of where my money went, how much went in and out of my various accounts etc.

And Coonie - UK prices for Cigs. $15 for 20. Which is 150 a carton, obviously. If we call them the same thing..... Is a carton 200 cigarettes?

 

[dilla]

I don't really track my spending. But my bank gives me a breakdown of where my money went, how much went in and out of my various accounts etc.

And Coonie - UK prices for Cigs. $15 for 20. Which is 150 a carton, obviously. If we call them the same thing..... Is a carton 200 cigarettes?

Yeah, nigguuhhhhh.

 

[Pittsey]

10 times cheaper then..... Ouch.... If I smoked...

 

[Flipmo]

I just spent without a fuck given.

 

[Da_Funk]

Do you keep close track of your spending?

I use Mint. It's a great tool. How much do you spend on alcohol per month? I spent $393 dollars on alcohol last month. Much higher than my average. I've been spending about $200 a month for the last 18 months.

I spent $200 on both Friday and Saturday of last weekend. That was only slightly higher than normal. I don't want to know.

 

[masta247]

I don't consciously control my spendings. I spend the most when going out with girls. Even though I enjoy the idea of cheap dates I dig good food too and occasional new "cool" things. So I spend most cash on food and random trips.

When I feel like I'm spending more than 100$ a week on food, going out and daily things I take note what I did wrong and whether it was worth it. Now I just don't waste money on silly things, even though I pay for cool extraordinary stuff sometimes I can still keep my spending on an ok level, so if I'm able to keep some savings after each month I don't need to write down each spending.

I spend less than 10$ a month on Alcohol on average. Sometimes more, sometimes 0. 10$ here is equal to 2-4 big bottles of vodka or 20 decent beers here. In short, I earn more for an hour of work so I don't feel the need to keep track of my alcohol spendings.

 

[Pittsey]

You guys drink like pussies. I spend £250 + on a night out....!

I think I need to drink in Poland.... lol... I went to Lithuania a couple of times.... I only spent £25 on alcohol... !

 

[Cooper]

Lithuania was really cheap when I went... alcohol, food, everything. Could live there on hardly any money.

 

[Flipmo]

If you guys like drinking a lot for a little money. Skopje, Macedonia (also known as FYROM for uptight Greeks) is a good party/drinking destination at the moment. I haven't been, but that's the word on the street.

 

[S O F I]

I don't consciously control my spendings. I spend the most when going out with girls. Even though I enjoy the idea of cheap dates I dig good food too and occasional new "cool" things. So I spend most cash on food and random trips.

When I feel like I'm spending more than 100$ a week on food, going out and daily things I take note what I did wrong and whether it was worth it. Now I just don't waste money on silly things, even though I pay for cool extraordinary stuff sometimes I can still keep my spending on an ok level, so if I'm able to keep some savings after each month I don't need to write down each spending.

I spend less than 10$ a month on Alcohol on average. Sometimes more, sometimes 0. 10$ here is equal to 2-4 big bottles of vodka or 20 decent beers here. In short, I earn more for an hour of work so I don't feel the need to keep track of my alcohol spendings.

You don't feel the need to keep track of your alcohol spending because you ain't spending shit lol not because you have a job. That's like me saying I don't feel the need to keep track of spending on CDs. Well, yeah, cause I barely buy any.

Ten bucks can't get me 20 beers in a hole in the wall "come in unknown and get shot" bar in a village in Bosnia so you must mean the price of beer at a discount store. I doubt you can go to a bar in any part of Warsaw and spend only $30 zlaty on 20 beers.

 

[Da_Funk]

In all seriousness, once I start working (leave in 4 days) and have a grown-ups income I will be budgeting and tracking my spending like a motherfucker. Not because I'm cheap, but because, well any responsible and independant individual should have a handle on these things. As a student I never really cared becuase I was only pulling in minimal income and living for free at my dads.