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Your living costs.

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    What are all the things you spend your money on? This includes any bills you have, your personal expenses (video games, music, going to the movies, shopping, porn, haircuts, clothes, **** like that), food, and whatnot. If you were to estimate how much you spend on each of these things that you'll list, how much would you think that it comes to?
     
    I spend my money on gas, medicine, and my media package bill. I only work once a week though, so eh. I also might buy a plushie or a meal somewhere, but not as of lately. I'm trying to save up some money for when I go on vacation with my family. I usually spend money on video games, but lately I haven't been interested in many series, so I'm conserving the money for games I know I really want, like Black 2 and White 2.
     
    Food. Ummm, FOOD and ... food? I get free petrol from my job which is handdddy.
    Sometimes I splurge on video games or something technological but my main expense is food.

    Probably 150$ Love you too Andy. a week just on food. Oh god I'm a glutenous person!
     
    Who on Earth pays for porn?

    The majority of what I spend my money on comes down to DVDs, video games, Chinese food, 7Eleven slushies and movie tickets. The only real 'living costs' I have are things to do with my car, which would include petrol and repairs, plus insurance and services and whatnot. Oh, and my phone bill - I forgot about my phone bill because it just gets taken straight out of my account and I never really think about it.

    I'll do some calculation on a yearly basis:

    Chinese food: $8 per plate, plus I pay for my friend because she's poor. I'd say we have it on average twice a week, plus I buy an average of one extra one every two weeks to take to work for my break. So..
    (8 x 2 x 2 52) + (8 x 26) = $1664 + $208
    = $1872​
    It would be a little less than that though, since sometimes we get there just before they close and they have a 3 for $10 deal to clear it all away and sometimes when I don't have time to get out to the mall my mother buys the one for work. So take it down to roughly $1750.

    Movie tickets: Based on the average of a three year sample of how often I go to the movies: 22 times in 2010, 35 times in 2011 and 19 times so far in 2012 (which extrapolation tells me that I could go up to 57 times this year), we can conclude that I go to the movies an average of 38 times per year. Each ticket is $18 and I usually pay for the friend I see the movie with.
    18 x 2 x 38
    = $1368​
    Slushies: $2.60 each, I buy mine and my friend's, average of twice a week
    2.6 x 2 x 2 x 52
    = $540.80​
    Phone bill: $54 per month
    54 x 12
    = $648 per year​
    That's all I'd care to venture guesses on. There's no frequency or set cost in the rest that I can base anything on :P

    EDIT: Aaaaa that took so long it was over an hour and I got ninja'd twice! D:
     
    Apart from rent, food and the cinema are by far my biggest expenses. I don't buy a lot of stuff in general, and have cut down the number of DVDs I buy to virtually zero, so food has become the biggest expenditure in my life. The cinema is my vice, and I always try and see stuff I like as soon as possible, so I normally end up paying through the nose for it. Other things - like my iPhone bill, haircuts, transport costs - happen less regularly, but are obviously still a part of my expenses... but I honestly wouldn't be able to tell you how much this all comes to. I'm very fortunate that my laissez-faire attitude towards money hasn't come to bite me in the ass as of yet.
     
    Internet, phone line, TV (£30), Mobile phone (£30), TV license (£139 annual), food (£30 - £150 Monthly), rent (£380 monthly), yugioh (£0 - £100 monthly), travel costs (£38 - £200 depending on if I go back home or anywhere else).

    I am sure I missed out some things there, but they are all monthly costs.​
     
    Rent, utilities, food, transportation. I get my porn free on the internet. Everything else is case-by-case. Some months I go to the movies 2 or more times and others I don't go at all, and every now and then I take a day trip to the city for some shopping which can end up being quite expensive.
     
    Rent, gas bill (for the apartment), phone, loan repayment, at least $50 a month for my half of the other bills, food, and lately, medical bills. >:

    If I have spare money I tend to spend it on food, because I enjoy eating too much. Can't think of the last time I splurged on a video game or something else fun. Huh.
     
    I would have to say that I pay a lot for Video Games, Dvds, Shopping (Clothes/Snacks), Phone, Body Sprays/Hair Products, Haircuts, etc... In the end, the cost adds up. >.<
     
    Nothing. I don't buy anything to begin with. The only thing I really use is my phone and the car. The phone is part of a family plan so my parents just take care of it and the car I usually just use to go to school with and since it's not mine my dad will take it during the weekends and usually fill it while he's out otherwise I would if it needed filling when I drive it.
     
    I... don't pay for much of anything. :x My family's pretty well off and now I'm doing school full time instead of taking the summers off to work, so I don't have an income anymore. So I'm back to having a bit of an "allowance", I guess. My parents are paying for school and we have an agreement that once I'm out in the work force, I'll pay back half of it. They bought a townhouse last summer and I live there so I don't have to pay rent anymore. Aaand they pay for my phone plan; I was supposed to pay for part of it but my mom wouldn't let me for the first year and now she's forgotten about it. :| Mostly all I pay for "myself" are meals and groceries. When I still had extra cash to burn from last summer, I bought a few video games from time to time, but I usually split the costs three-ways with my roommates so it wasn't much of an investment. :P My spending on Pokemon stuff and whatnot has really gone down, too. I ordered food waaay too much last term though (my roommates and I were always too lazy to cook ;__;) so I've got to cut down on that in the next while because it burned through a looot of my money and it shouldn't have. :s I also pay for the internet at the house (again, split three ways) and I'll probably be helping with my roommate's gas bill when he gets a car next term and ends up ferrying us around all the time. There are some other expenditures here and there but I guess fact remains that it's no longer my money paying for it, really. XD;

    Thankfully all my meds are covered by my parents' health care plan and mine or this might be a totally different story. :x

    [/upper middle class guilt ._.]
    Who on Earth pays for porn?
    I don't know, but any time Nick talks about spending money, he always mentions porn... so I'm pretty sure he's the only person in existence who still does. D:
     
    I don't know, but any time Nick talks about spending money, he always mentions porn... so I'm pretty sure he's the only person in existence who still does. D:
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    Does he know about this new thing they have now called the Internet? It's all the rage.
     
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