Hi, I'm Andrew.
And uh, new years has always meant a lot to me.
I'm a big believer in the whole "new year, new me" thing and i see starting a new year
as a way to forget all the bad stuff that happened in the previous and build upon all
the good stuff.
So what better way to end a year positively than with a bang?
And better yet, what better way to start a brand new year than with a night i'll look
back on with tons of stories and memories.
For these reasons I decided that this year I was going to plan a crazy new years eve
night, recording what I do and also what I spend, cause my friends and I aren't millionaires,
but for one night we can damn sure pretend to be.
The day before new years eve is when the expenses started.
my friends and I all agreed we wanted to dress up for new years,
which left me with the problem of not having the clothes i needed.
mainly dress pants and a nice dress shirt.
Since it was after christmas tons of places had massive sales on their stock so we shopped
around a little and I found what I needed.
both things I got on clearance, but I had to get the pants tailored to fit perfectly
so plus the extra $15 for that it cost me just under $150.
that, plus my own jacket, tie, cuff links, socks and shoes, and I was good to go.
The next thing on the list was our alcohol.
I went to the local LCBO to shop around for bottles of champaign, which is something that
I had NEVER done before.
I discovered bottles ranged from about $60-$120 which is a lot more than I'm used to spending,
but this is new years and I wanted this to be a night remember.
So much so, that when we walked past the glass door containing all
of the liquor stores most expensive bottles, "dom perignon" caught my eye.
if you don't know what that is.... it's a $230 bottle of champaign.
I've never spent anywhere CLOSE to that much for a bottle of anything, but this is going
to be a night I'll never forget, and there's no better way to make memories than by buying
things I'd never regularly buy.
So the Dom Perignon, plus 2 bottles of the cheaper champaign and just cause we're in
toronto a bottle of Drake's whiskey, virginia black and our total was $400.
that plus the clothes I bought earlier put our total to $550.
my pocket was starting to hurt.
The day of New Years Eve finally arrived and with it meant getting to the condo we were
renting for the night and picking up the keys.
we got a place in central downtown, fifteen stories up with a beautiful view of the city.
The place itself was massive, with huge windows and fancy countertops and everything I'd have
in a dream condo.
Unfortunately for us, prices skyrocket on NYE for places like this, so the damage was
probably our biggest expensive of the whole night.
$820.
ouuu this is gonna suck. that, + the $550 from before and we up to $1370.
okay well uh,I'm packing my own lunches for the next little while.
The last main expense was tickets to the event we were going to.
It was a bar called the Madison, and earlybird tickets for the
event cost $10 each.
so if one ticket cost $10, and I was in a group of 15,
15 tickets cost $150.
bringing the total value of the night to $1520.
i'm running out of ways to let you know that this expense is something i'm gonna be feeling
for a while, but..
I will.. so, 8 o'clock comes around
and people start showing up.
we pop the first bottle of champaign while we wait for more people to arrive and over
the course of the next few hours we end up popping the second one, opening up the virginia
black, and finally, with a toast, popping the dom perignon. for the record, it was way
better than the cheaper stuff.
probably won't buy it again any time soon but it was the most amazing thing I had ever
drank. and with that, we were ready to head over to the bar.
At this point we had spent so much that a little extra for a nicer uber was an amount
that we wouldnt even notice.
so two black SUV's later and we arrived having paid $80 for them both.
just to throw that onto everything else we're sitting on $1600.
so we pull up to the bar, and this is where our night REALLY begins.
because I do social media i reached out to the management team at the bar we were going
to and worked out getting a line bypass, which isn't something that they sold, which made
it all the cooler. we walked right in and made our way around the bar.
it's a new years event at a popular bar, so needless to say it was PACKED.
so.. we dance.
we make some new friends, we get a few drinks... probably an extra $30 on top of everything
else. and as the count down neared i made sure i had as many of my friends with me as
i could find and we yelled at the top of our lungs together, bringing in the new year.
the rest of the night went exactly how you'd expect.
we kept dancing.
we kept making friends.
and we had a few more drinks until it hit around 2am and then we headed back to our
condo to end the night.
and having been planning this whole event for the last two weeks, it took me until today
to realize something.
between the alcohol, the clothes i needed, the condo rental, the ticket prices and the
ubers, we spent about $1700.
but, that's not what this night was about.
money is a nice thing to have, but I would've had a fun night even without all the luxeries
we splurged on.
cause truth is, that's been every other new years I've ever had.
To me, this was about starting 2017 in the best way and with the best people.
Experiences to me are worth way more than any materialistic things.
sometimes those things just enchance an experience a little.
Cause in the end, all we have left is our memories and I want to be able to look back
and know that I enjoyed second of it.
thanks for watching the video I really hope you enjoyed it.
If this is your first time watching me, you should definitely consider hitting that subscribe
button cause I make videos every week and if you think this was crazy you're gonna have
to wait and see what's coming.
Also if you want to check out the behind the scenes for this video, that'll be right here
and in the description below.
it's funny because the whole night did not go quite as smoothly as we made it look so
check that out, and also here's the last video I posted where I'm also planning an event,
only on a smaller scale and I make some bad decisions during it. and yeah I guess with
all that being said I'll see you all next time.