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Got rained on at least three times today- it's cold and stormy, typical early-fall weather. But since we didn't really have a summer this year I feel kinda cheated, and half tempted to run away to someplace hot for a week or so. (Turkey, maybe?) But I may have to content myself with the occasional sauna, it's hot, too, and much cheaper...
Money's been tight. What else is new, you ask? But I've recently moved and started a new job, and while I can't complain at all about my salary, the increase in living expenses is twice as high as the increase in pay. Rent is so insane it scares me. I think I spend 2/3 of my net monthly income on rent and bills.
It's okay, because of course I did choose to move, and I could have chosen not to, but it's so difficult to find a place here that I didn't feel I could really risk passing this one up. Especially with Tim moving here in a couple months.
Well, this just means I have to use my money-saving skills that I got as a starving grad student. Things were so much worse-- back then rent and bills was 100% of my take-home and the only reason I could eat was because my parents were giving me a monthly loan.
So, just as a reminder, the top-5 things I always like to keep in mind when money's tight:
- newspapers are just as good when you read them for free at the library
- do not enter clothing stores at all, ever
- sleeping in and reading a book on the couch are entirely free
- bit-torrents are your friend
- train tickets and cups of coffee downtown are expensive but worth it, because they keep life from being dreary and miserable.
Money's been tight. What else is new, you ask? But I've recently moved and started a new job, and while I can't complain at all about my salary, the increase in living expenses is twice as high as the increase in pay. Rent is so insane it scares me. I think I spend 2/3 of my net monthly income on rent and bills.
It's okay, because of course I did choose to move, and I could have chosen not to, but it's so difficult to find a place here that I didn't feel I could really risk passing this one up. Especially with Tim moving here in a couple months.
Well, this just means I have to use my money-saving skills that I got as a starving grad student. Things were so much worse-- back then rent and bills was 100% of my take-home and the only reason I could eat was because my parents were giving me a monthly loan.
So, just as a reminder, the top-5 things I always like to keep in mind when money's tight:
- newspapers are just as good when you read them for free at the library
- do not enter clothing stores at all, ever
- sleeping in and reading a book on the couch are entirely free
- bit-torrents are your friend
- train tickets and cups of coffee downtown are expensive but worth it, because they keep life from being dreary and miserable.