My Last Hundred Bucks: Wine, Bus Tickets, and Interest
$100! It is a lot of money, and yet, it is also not a lot of money at all. Where did your last hundred bucks go, Rachel Krantz?
$14.14: Jumbo bottle of Yellow Tail pinot. My mom’s visiting for Passover, and we’re going to need it.
$13: Two NJ transit bus tickets for us to go to Jersey for the seder. When my mom says she’ll pay me back, I laugh. A man at the ticket machine next to me launches into a lecture on being sarcastic. When we walk away he screams after me, “You only get one mother!” I scream back, “Don’t I know it!”
$15.75: Bistro Les Amis. I meet an ex, now a friend, during my intern lunch break. He suggests this bistro, because he has a real job and likes how they scrape the breadcrumbs off paper tablecloth. I order a salad and water, and this is what it costs. We split the tab. I recall why we broke up.
$4: Laundry machine. A double load because mom is still here. Eye-rolling and wine stains aside, I really do love her.
$53.89: Auto debit to Sallie Mae. This is the minimum interest payment for just one of my student loans. It doesn’t even pay any pay into the premium. I’m working on getting unemployment deferment, along with possibly a noose.
Previously: Molly McAleer
Rachel Krantz is an unpaid intern. Photo credit: flickr/ralphunden
Not Baron Herzog? (But I’m sure you get a lot more bang/buck by going with Yellowtail, since everything K-for-P is more expensive than it should be.)
Oooh I am on my last $100 TODAY (this week is gonna get interesting), and I plan to spend it on: groceries, dog food, a makeup bag. There was something else I needed from the Shopper’s Drug Mart that I now cannot remember.