Hey everyone I'm Chris welcome back to another video. There's been this trend
going on where people tell you how much they spend in a week in the city or
country they live in so that's what I'm doing this week before anything else
please subscribe to my channel if you haven't already and here's Coco so that
you will like this video for the YouTube algorithm. I want to start with the most
basic necessity which is food so for groceries I usually spend around maybe
forty to fifty dollars a week. For breakfast I'm not really a huge
breakfast person so I would eat fruits and maybe drink tea with it. For lunch I
usually eat a plant-based meal and for dinner I would eat meat, rice and some
veggies. My favorite drink is actually cold water believe it or not. Water where
I live is actually free so that's great and usually I would eat out maybe once
or twice a week and for the cost of that I'll get to it later. Now I'm gonna go
day by day with how much I spend here in New Zealand in a week. On Monday I
actually didn't spend any money at all because it was my day off I stayed at
home the only significant thing I did was I went to the dog park
with Coco it's actually walking distance from my house and it was all free.
Tuesday came and it was a whole different story. After work I went to a skin
specialist and I spent a lot of money normally I'm actually quite frugal but
also recently I told myself that I shouldn't be too stingy when it comes to
self-care so that day I spent a total of four hundred and seventy five dollars
that would be for facial, LED treatments I also bought an under eye serum and
last but not the least is for laser hair removal. The LED treatments I would say
is actually for multiple sessions and that's why it's expensive. That night I
went online I went on eBay and I bought a birthday present for my friend and
that cost nine dollars and nine cents.
Wednesday came and that was also a workday I always drive myself to work I
have this reliable fuel economy car and sixty dollars usually lasts me for about
a month and that comes out to fourteen dollars per week
I park on the street so my parking is always free after work my friends and I
were actually planning to go swimming I finished on time but they didn't so I went
to the Asian store to pass the time and I ended up buying chips for three
dollars and 16 cents I waited around 45 minutes but they still didn't finish
work so I ended up going home and because I felt guilty about eating chips
I worked out at home and that's free. On Thursday aside from my usual expenses
like food and petrol after work I went to the gym and because it's my hospital
gym it only cost me seven dollars per week I workout two to three times a week
so seven dollars is actually a really good value for money and I love the
facilities there including the showers.
Friday came I had another day off so I was staying at home and not spending
money so that day I walked Coco, I planned this video, I was just working
from home and before dinner Ray and I were actually going out we usually take
turns treating each other so that night I paid for parking at 2 dollars and 25
cents and dinner was free. Another thing I spent money on that night was five
dollars for the lotto. My flatmate actually started the group there's like
15 of us and we were playing for 28 million we didn't win but this week I
think it's up to 35 million now so subscribe to channel because maybe next
time you see me I might be a millionaire.
Saturday came I worked for 4 hours from 8:00 to 12:00 in the afternoon I had a
nap and in the evening we went out to the lantern festival we took Coco with
us she enjoyed it very much she said hi to a lot of people and a lot of dogs and
for dinner since it was my turn to buy I spent twenty six dollars and five
cents.
Sunday was a really good day it was sunny at 24 degrees so Ray and I decided
to drive to Paraparaumu beach to catch some crabs.
So on the way we stopped at a supermarket to buy some chicken frame and also some
snacks so my share came out to be nine dollars we didn't catch a lot of crabs
but it was enough for dinner so dinner was kind of free or nine dollars. I've
been really good this week in terms of not buying takeaway or buying lunch from
work I have this goal this year to not buy takeaway at all or order from
ubereats and that's because of the plastic containers and so far I've
achieved that goal so my total for this week so far is 603 dollars however we
haven't gone through bills and utilities and that's next and I'll put it on the
screen right here so this includes phone, electricity, gas, internet, pet insurance,
car insurance, car registration, and warrant of fitness, my nursing
registration and my nursing organization. When all this included brings my weekly
total to six hundred and fifty eight dollars and four cents. Last but not the
least is housing in my case this is my share on two mortgages, two home
insurance and two sets of rates and the total for that is four hundred and fifty
five dollars per week but because I'm also collecting rent it brings the
cost down to sixty seven dollars and 41 cents per week with all that included my
new total now is seven hundred twenty-five dollars and eighty one cents.
Now that seems like a lot of money but if you subtract the amount of money I
spent on self care which was a one-off thing
it will bring the cost down to two hundred fifty dollars and 81 cents. I
just included the skin care because that's what I actually spent on that
particular week that I chose now two hundred fifty dollars is more of a true
reflection of what I actually spend in a week and that's because I don't go
shopping at all now unless I actually need to or if I need to buy a birthday
present or if I need something for my plants.
There are also some days where I go out with my friends which I didn't do on that
particular week so let's just say that my cost of living for one week is
around two hundred fifty to three hundred dollars per week as a female
living in New Zealand with that being said thank you guys so much for watching
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