My mother thinks it's impossible for someone to spend about $1500 a month. She asked me what my monthly expenditure was and I said probably between $1500 - $1700 and she totally flipped. "Huh?????" She went. "How can anyone spend so much money in a month???"
Err, mum, I'm really not THAT bad. There are many others who spend much more indiscriminately than I do (not that I spend indiscriminately ok). But anyway, I think that's how much I spend. I never really keep track of my expenditure. I just know that I'm not in the red and don't have credit card overdrafts with the banks.
I haven't seen my savings go up very much 'cos I've been travelling quite a bit. So what do I spend on?
1) Food (evidently.)
2) Transport (Bus, MRT, Taxi. The latter being the main consumer of my money.)
3) Entertainment
4) Shopping (refer to previous post for latest purchases)
5) Hair (I cut my hair every month. Yes, it grows THAT fast. And I colour it every three months or so.)
6) Bills (Handphone, credit card, etc)
7) Toiletries and cosmetics
8) Travel (this being where most of my money goes to!)
So there. It's so easy to spend that kind of money. I don't know why my mum's so surprised. And I know she's reading this. Heh.
Posted by DSD at September 4, 2005 12:00 AMu are not the only one ... i used to spend 90% of my salary on food, clubbing, shopping, spas ... now hve to cut down alot. No more good food (unless someone is paying .. :P), take only bus & MRT (unless taxi fare can claim from co), no more movies (only rent dvds), no more shopping sprees (only when there's a sale), hve not cut my hair for the last 3 months!, bills still hve to pay though, travel no more (since my last major trip to states!)
Posted by: snowystars at September 4, 2005 1:46 PMIt costs money to live a modern life, eh?
For me, food not that bad. (I cook @ home).
It's my ADSL bill, my HP bill and my petrol bill that are the monthly annoyances...
And then there's my big vice, travelling! That costs big money (even though I'm pretty good at doing dat on da cheep!).
Of course, you all in SIN are pretty lucky! Good food abounds! And cheap lah!
Posted by: Rodney at September 5, 2005 5:11 AM