hi my name is Kat Theo and I was an auxiliar de conversación for three years to
Madrid and this is how I spent my $1,000 stipend every single month I Don't know how I did it
I spent my apartment I lived in was $600 and I had a roommate so it was $300 I
spent like that a month for rent and we lived in an area called Puente de Vallecas which if you click Spanish people say it's like the ghetto of Madrid but
it's fine there really is no ghetto I actually really did love the area it's
really pretty and you live in the city center I would expect to pay a little
bit more than $300 a month but that's how much I paid so for utilities which
was Wi-Fi gas water we paid about $70 a month because again once again this was
split between two people so I paid $70 a month on that and then I paid about 8
euros a month on my phone bill I went with the company called Tuenti my plan was
seven euros a month with one gigabyte I think now it's three gigabytes but I
always went over that so that's how I got the extra euro on because I always
spent more but obviously really really cheap well I spent 20 euros a month and
public transportation because I was under 26 and since 2000 and I think 16
they started that if you're under the age of 26 it's only 20 euros to get on
any bus any Metro any train for only $20 so really really affordable if you're
over 26 then it's gonna probably be around like $70 a month food I spent
about 200 euros a month in food so my groceries I spent about 120 euros a
month there 80 bucks I spent going out with friends going like out out
but since tipping is not in the Spanish culture you save a lot of money that way
as well it's been about 100 euros a month in tact
and drinks and going like to the club and stuff with my friends and just other
drunk adventurers like falling down and you need to go get band-aids from like a
local chino they call them the little tiny shops or are having someone try to
try you and you have to pepper spray them so you can go home alone through a
freaking story spend another $20 a month in burocracy stuff like getting tossed
us from the bank and other visa requirements getting copies of papers
and other things like that was about $20 a month not every month you have to do
this but it a verge talked about like 20 bucks a month and then I spent $80 a
month in shopping I'm pretty minimalist I don't really buy stuff but I like to
buy other people's stuff so that's worth that $20 a week comes from if you shop
more are y'all gonna spend more and if you don't really buy things you're gonna
probably be around this I spent about $500 in traveling a month and in this
time I went to about 20 countries so I definitely got my value out of it I went
to Morocco for a $40.00 round-trip I went to Italy I went to France all
parked a lot of different parts of Spain and it equaled to about 300 bucks a
month in that because you've got to think how cheap travel is once you're in
Europe it's really cheap to go from place to place about a hundred dollars
among gym my gym was called allure no interstate Molina this gym was very
expensive but they have a really good pole fitness program with really good
instructors the best in Spain so I thought it was worth it because I love
full fitness but if you go to the gym you can expect to pay a lot less than
that other things I didn't have to pay for in Spain was health insurance public
health insurance in Spain is free and as an auxiliar you're gonna get that I
didn't have a car so did I saved on gas I saved on insurance as I said in the
registration I saved on maintenance I didn't have to pay anything with that so
I save a ton of money with that and then I also didn't have a TV so I didn't have
to pay for cable or any kind of or didn't have to buy a TV and I also
didn't have any subscriptions like Netflix because I didn't want an excuse
to stay home I wanted to be out doing stuff so without TV get bored right so
you leave and you go do some people do things and you explore the city meet
people so that's why I didn't decide to get TV or Netflix but I did most off my
friends sometimes when I wanted to watch a series once in a while okay so all of
that added up I spent about 1,000 198 dollars a month give or take a little
bit left sometimes little bit more so each month I was about negative $198 Oh
God okay so extra things that I did to supplement my income was I gave private
lessons I did three lessons a week for 20 euros an hour that was about two
hundred and forty dollars a month extra on that and then we me and my
ex-roommate we did Airbnb three nights out of the week and we made about 360
dollars and then we divided that way to 180 went to me 180 went to him so each
month I had a savings of about two hundred and twenty-two dollars so I do
want to say that my first year living in Madrid I had my own studio apartment and
I spent $600 on that and I also did a lot more private lessons so I was making
a lot more private lessons I was probably making about the same as my
stipend I was making probably about an extra $1,000 a month for private lessons
so if you only do three lessons a week you have a lot of time to do other
things but if you just do six lessons a week that's already four hundred and
forty dollars you can see how you can supplement your income and make a lot
more than the stipend and then also if you have an extra bedroom and your
apartment you could also do Airbnb Airbnb is on fire in Madrid if you have
an extra bedroom you need to be doing because I have rented out my same space
and someone's sleeping next to me and they're paying me $20 at night leg it's
crazy okay guys well that's all that's why I
spent my money in Madrid I know a lot of you guys are coming to Madrid this year
for the next season of Excel ers and a lot of people ask me about what is the
standard of living and cost of living how much did they save this is how much
I spent my money on give or take if you have any other questions about moving to
Madrid or anything else major the latest family that I would be happy to answer
them for you leave a comment in the comments and I want to know how do you
spend your stipend every month I will see you the next video bye guys