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Stress and microbes.
14 years ago
Yay, don't we alllll just love being stressed, busy as hell, and broke? Or rather, broke, busy as hell and stressed about it.
I've spent the past few months scrimping and struggling to get by -- yay for being a student, it is SO much fun to try and feed yourself! -- when I worked out my monthly expenses. This is the stuff I -have- to pay.
Rent: $600
Internet: $50
Phone: $50
Debt repayment:$2-300
Food: $400.
Lets go to the upper scale, so $300 debt repayment.
$600 + $300= $900
$50 + $50 = $100
$1000 + 400= $1400
I share a house, so the bills are split (electricity, water, gas) every three months, and I've just moved there so ... yet to pay a bill like that. It's a goodly amount for -anyone- to pay, yeah?
I get ~$300 a week in pay. Sometimes it's like, $315, other times it's $250 or less. If it's -over- $300 then the extra goes towards the debt. As well as $50 every week. Every other week I get benefits, ~$100 for the two weeks, minus ~$50-60 to pay back -another- debt to the government, that's automatically taken out so... whatever.
Now what does this mean? It means that I am getting an average of $1200 per month.
You have no idea how much of a relief it is to find out that hey, it's -not- that I'm really crappy with money handling, nope, I'm -actually- short every single month.
Go Australia.
The only thing I can change is how much I eat. The $200 every two weeks? That's green Stuff. fresh fruit, vegetables, bread, you know, the basics that every cooking able individual gets for the meals and so on. That averages out to $130 a fortnight, the extra $70 allowance? That's for buying food when I'm working. Drinks, dinner when working long enough to get a break and so on. It's probably not that much, but it's better to err on the side of caution, yeah?
Sometimes, I swear, the world hates me.
In other news, it is my birthday next month, (april), and I got some gifts from a friend! Fuzzy plush microbes. I am now addicted to the silly things and want mooooore... but shipping kills. Especially when you're broke! Hehe, oh well. Maybe one day I'll have money I can spend...
I've spent the past few months scrimping and struggling to get by -- yay for being a student, it is SO much fun to try and feed yourself! -- when I worked out my monthly expenses. This is the stuff I -have- to pay.
Rent: $600
Internet: $50
Phone: $50
Debt repayment:$2-300
Food: $400.
Lets go to the upper scale, so $300 debt repayment.
$600 + $300= $900
$50 + $50 = $100
$1000 + 400= $1400
I share a house, so the bills are split (electricity, water, gas) every three months, and I've just moved there so ... yet to pay a bill like that. It's a goodly amount for -anyone- to pay, yeah?
I get ~$300 a week in pay. Sometimes it's like, $315, other times it's $250 or less. If it's -over- $300 then the extra goes towards the debt. As well as $50 every week. Every other week I get benefits, ~$100 for the two weeks, minus ~$50-60 to pay back -another- debt to the government, that's automatically taken out so... whatever.
Now what does this mean? It means that I am getting an average of $1200 per month.
You have no idea how much of a relief it is to find out that hey, it's -not- that I'm really crappy with money handling, nope, I'm -actually- short every single month.
Go Australia.
The only thing I can change is how much I eat. The $200 every two weeks? That's green Stuff. fresh fruit, vegetables, bread, you know, the basics that every cooking able individual gets for the meals and so on. That averages out to $130 a fortnight, the extra $70 allowance? That's for buying food when I'm working. Drinks, dinner when working long enough to get a break and so on. It's probably not that much, but it's better to err on the side of caution, yeah?
Sometimes, I swear, the world hates me.
In other news, it is my birthday next month, (april), and I got some gifts from a friend! Fuzzy plush microbes. I am now addicted to the silly things and want mooooore... but shipping kills. Especially when you're broke! Hehe, oh well. Maybe one day I'll have money I can spend...
