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I am a 29 year old girl,
woman, lady living in Austin, Texas.
Is this kombucha or is it sweet tea? I'll never tell.
Hey YouTube world, it's me, Evelyn.
What I will share in this video is how much money I spend in a week.
It's a pretty popular video topic here on the YouTube internet lately because
we're all a little bit nosy. I know you,
I know y'all nosy.
First we have to do some quick maths.
Some arithmetic because in this video I'm not just showing what I spend day to
day. I'm also going to include my bills in this calculation.
And that's something not everyone does in these types of videos.
And I think that's the nosiest part of it. That's what people want to know.
You're not gonna tell us how much your rent is?
I will not be including
my work expenses though. So if you want to know what my work expenses are,
tell me in the comments below and I will try to make a video about it.
But this is not that. I got my computer right here. Okay,
so let's begin. Shall we? Rent
So my share of the rent is $1,030 so per week divided by four I'm paying $257
and 50 cents rent includes pest control,
trash, and some other fees that I don't know what they be doing,
but it's out the account. Utilities.
So in addition to rent,
I put in $356 per month for utilities. Weekly,
that's about 89 bucks.
That is actually way more than what my bills really costs per month and per
week. I overpay by about $200 a month,
which means I'm overpaying by about $50 a week.
The budget I use for myself right now,
how I got these numbers is based on imaginary numbers shooting high before I
ever moved in. Right?
So now I've been living life and I have the actual numbers,
but I still pay that higher amount because I can.
Hallelujah.
I didn't want to redo the math of my budget.
And also it's a cute little buffer for things like buying lots of cleaning
supplies or food and drank for a party that I'll never have.
Um, it's not my emergency funds. It's a little breath of something,
a little extra something something.
And now for my regularly occurring expenses,
health insurance, listen to this.
Health insurance monthly
Kill me now. Life insurance, I pay
$152.75
That is $38 and about 18 cents.
On to happier things.
Um, Spotify,
I pay $10.81 a month for my Spotify account per week.
That is $2.70 to listen to all the music I want.
And I do. Netflix,
which I usually count as a, a work expense,
but I'm going to include it here. I paid $14 and 6 cents a month for that,
which divided by four means per week.
I'm paying about $3 and 52 cents for Netflix.
Audible, I do pay for audible. I listen,
listen to my audio books and that is $16 and 18 cents per month.
It's like four bucks a week. After all of that,
we still got to live life cut to Evelyn from the past and roll that beautiful
vlog footage.
Happy Monday. I'm gonna go ahead and open this window.
even though there's no sunshine.
It's about 10 o'clock in the AM I really want to
go buy a juice or a smoothie,
but I got the stuff in the freezer, so...
A nice beige smoothie. Cheers.
Alright, so went to the grocery store.
One of my goals this year was to cook more for others.
So having a little bit of a neighborly dinner,
Creamy Cajun pasta.
So I bought the ingredients for tonight's dinner along with some dessert along
with a salad for lunch
right now when I get home and altogether that was $35 and 53 cents.
Today we not drinkin
no subpar smoothie.
I need to go to the store to grab a cleaning supply
or two and I'm a give me a little some delicious in the process.
Cleaning supplies, almost $10. Gas,
almost $23 still need to find some juice,
some breakfast. So what had happened was
it ain't no juice places by me now . So I got Shipley's.
Happy Wednesday, it's the middle of the day,
it's like almost 2:00 PM and I was like, Oh yeah,
I'm filming this video. Today,
This package doesn't count cause I didn't buy it this week.
HEAUXS!
Today I went to FedEx printing something for this other video that I'm filming
today that I'm working on today. And then I was also going to buy a glue stick,
um, for the video. And so, you know, I go to the register and I'm like, Oh,
they got glue sticks let me get a glue stick. And she says, no need,
goes in the back and get,
gives me one of their glue sticks for free 99.
And I was looking at her like, I can have?
They gave me a glue stick for free. So I didn't have to spend $2 on a glue stick.
That's humanity.
Anyway, I'm really hungry.
I'm going to eat some Hello Fresh leftovers, free 99.
That's my Wednesday so far.
And we're back. Um, I lost steam vlogging.
I stopped altogether, it seems. Now that I look at this footage.
I'm gonna read my bank statements and finish off the week.
So on Friday went to the movies again and I paid $10.50 to see 1917
the party continues.
I spent $18.36 at.....
Huh? Oh, I spent that at...
CiCi's Pizza.
We all, you know, I was like, Hey, we hood rich. Like let me,
let me drop a 20 on this pizza buffet. I think that's it.
What did I do on Saturday?
I spent $19.44 at the beauty supply store.
I also spent $15.07 on a salad.
I went to forever 21 and spent $89.69
I spent a grand total of.....
$659.16 spent in a week
It is what it is.
I actually have a meeting with Julia of the PBS digital studios show 2 cents.
Um, and she's gonna help me go over my finances,
get my life together. So we'll see what she say.
Obviously this is not a typical week because I was getting ready to go on
vacation. That's why I bought the clothes,
but I am grateful that I had a lot of free meals because of Hello Fresh
things like this helped me kind of slow down and reevaluate what it is I'm doing
and why. It is what it is.
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And in the comments below,
let me know if openly talking about money is nerve racking or taboo in your
culture or your family and I will see you on the internet somewhere.
Bye.