Comments on: My Last Hundred Bucks: Expectations vs Reality

By: homotextual

homotextual — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:59:22 +0000

By: amateur hour

amateur hour — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:45:11 +0000

@bgprincipessa They should just include it in the value of the ticket, like how airlines include taxes, cuz NO ONE likes seeing them getting added on at the end but it would be so completely fine if you just thought the ticket was $29!

By: amateur hour

amateur hour — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:42:51 +0000

@redheaded&crazy oh boy. It is embarrassing how hard it is for me to remember what I’ve spent on the weekend.

$30 Dinner and beer on Friday
$25 Farmer’s market on Saturday (flowers, eggs, berries)
$125 Annual vet visit for my dog
$225 Clothes (new jeans and workout clothes mainly)
$20 Beers on Saturday night
$10 Bagels and coffee on Sunday (I treated two people! Surprisingly cheap)

Hmmmm I think that’s it! Maybe not as bad as I thought. And then this morning I spent $2,500 on a LivingSocial LASIK offer…eeek!!!

By: cliuless

cliuless — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:54:17 +0000

i’ve learned my lesson and round drastically UP to avoid disappointing myself. i go ahead and add about five dollars to any transaction >$25 and hope to be pleasantly surprised that i’m not as broke as i thought i was.

but usually it just turns out that i’m guessing about right.

By: Snicker-snack!

Snicker-snack! — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:31:28 +0000

~$12 of my last hundred went to Crumble and Flake too! No regrets!

By: Megano!

Megano! — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:22:28 +0000

@Megano! I mean small.

By: Marzipan

Marzipan — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:55:23 +0000

@redheaded&crazy

I was wondering if that was going to be posted every Monday, I kind of love weekend money round-up. It satisfies all of my vicarious curiosities, what people do every weekend AND how much it costs.

Friday – tennis, grilled at someone else’s house/their food, and then ice cream cones! A friend bought me mine.

Sat. – $20 for drinking/bar food at the beginning of the night, then got bought drinks after that (6 drinks, 2-ish paid for, over 5 hours). And then $10 for someone to gamble with, but I made him get my breakfast, so, really, that just worked out to getting a deal on breakfast.

Sunday – $42 for an AAA baseball game, I paid for all 6 of us, which I feel totally okay about, most of them are interns, working for free and/or still in school, then about $20 food (corn dog then sushi).

$92, all fun stuff, but of course now I have to buy gas and groceries and get an oil change and pay for cable and all the stuff I was too busy having fun to do.

By: Dancercise

Dancercise — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:15:54 +0000

$12.91 – lunch with a co-worker on Friday.
$8.61 – dinner with friends on Friday night.
$11.50 – Snow White and the Huntsman ticket on Saturday. We then sneaked into The Hunger Games, so… two for the price of one?
$16.00 – dinner after the movies.

Nothing on Sunday! Yay for Father’s Day and free food at my parents’ house!

By: redheaded&crazy

redheaded&crazy — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:08:05 +0000

@Megano! I don’t understand it either! but it arrived in my inbox so I did see and read it! (I cannot see it now) (sometimes the person who posted it can see it but nobody else can)

By: cherrispryte

cherrispryte — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:58:57 +0000

Friday – $19 at happy hour, $25 at dinner afterwards
Saturday – $22 at brunch, $75 at Sephora, $16 for drinks
Sunday – SPENT NO MONEY

The money at Sephora is clearly the stupid thing. But I got 5 different things for that price, and put back about 3/4 of what I initially had in my basket. Post-boozy brunch Sephora is dangerous.

Also this newfound love of Bloody Marys is probably going to be a problem. WHERE HAVE THEY BEEN ALL MY LIFE?!