Hey, guess what. I'm a huge fucking liar about shutting up about Alison because she and her friends think I am a liar about how much money I spent on her while she was here, so I want to prove it with facts.
I used my bank in Wisconsin where I had extra savings to cover myself. I withdrew $100 from there and also for Al's Pizza, a restaurant from where I got food + tip for Alison (the cost was over $40!) and I won't include Al's Pizza until I get my statements in the mail telling me exactly how much it was. However, I spent $200 in groceries on her flat, so I am including that other $100 in the final price.
Let's take out the petty charges, like the $7.28 on our first Walgreens visit. Anything under $10 I'm disregarding, because I want people to understand that there are big costs here. Highlighted items are relevant to Alison.
Let's half Sushi Café, since it would be unfair to blame her for all of it (even though she eats a lot more than me): $26.37. I'm leaving the gas prices in, because I did spend a good chunk of my time driving her around. However, I won't count them!
Total so far spent on Alison not related to the $200 flat grocery fee: $154.94.
Blaming her for all of my electric bill would be unfair. Here's what a typical electric bill cost looks like for my apartment.
Let's minus $178.71 from $254.26 to make $75.55, because I'm not unreasonable. Let's also split in half Longhorn Steakhouse (at which she ordered a fuckload of appetizers and ate more than I did!): $30.04. (FUCK I INFLATED IT A CENT!!)
That $73.50 was given to me when I got pulled over in the ghetto four days after my birthday (while still in the month of July) for my expired tags. If I hadn't driven her to the ghetto to feed her Internet addiction by buying a router (the prior cost we see from Walmart), I wouldn't have gotten this ticket. I'm not blaming her for it, because I'm the fucking retard who got a ticket on Saturday, but hey, reminder: as a consequence of doing nice things for Alison, I got pulled over and the first thing out of her fucking mouth was, "I'm so glad she just gave you a ticket. I didn't know what would happen to me if they took you to jail."
Total so far despite all I won't count (I'm leaving in important things like "bills" to emphasize the fact while I was throwing away all this money on Alison, I was still paying my bills on time): $205.59 + $154.94 = $360.53.
PS: I'm not a fucking liar about donating money. I do it because I want to. I am not a money-grubber. (That's how much I spend on groceries at Publix, by the way. I don't eat a lot!)
Since I have that outstanding $100 I pulled from my bank in WI but can't prove in finances (but Alison will actually admit that I spent $100 on her each time at the grocery store) let's add that in to the total so far. $360.53 + $100 = $460.53.
And finally-
Let's minus $178.71 from $258.26 to make $79.55. Add that up-
Total spent on Alison in items over $10.00: $540.08.
(As an aside, allow me to explain how Alison impacted two light bills: my billing statements are on the 12th and 13th of each month alternatively. Alison arrived on 7/26, giving her time to impact my bill for the 13th of August. She left 9/3, giving her time to impact my bill for the 12th of September. All of my other electric bills are between 170.00 and 180.00.)
That isn't counting the fucking fact I took her out for ice cream and other small things that she even tried to avoid doing. That's not counting the gas I wasted driving down to Decatur, GA in May to go out of my way to pick up her stuff so she wouldn't have to ship it. She didn't even say "Thank you," her mother did. Nevermind that I drove her to St. Augustine, 40-45 minutes out of the way of Jacksonville, because I was scared of her getting on a bus stop in the ghetto. Nevermind that I took her to the one job interview she actually managed to get.
Fuck all of you who think I should ship her stuff after all this and after her friends' threats of coming to pick it up. They can come pick it up and save ME the hassle. She's bitching about me behind my back and telling people I'm making this shit up and making it look like more of a cost than it is.
Look up the price of refinishing a floor sometime. You'll find it's $200 to $250 at LEAST. I'm not even tacking that on there.
I'll mail her her fucking $60 back if she asks for it, since she did give me $60 to ship her stuff. I'm not so dishonorable: I won't keep it even if she owes that to me.
UPDATE!!! from the WI statements courtesy of my mom who apparently already received my statements in the mail since they mail them monthly and i forgot:
8/18 Roosevelt Blvd. $141.00
That's when Alison went over her $100 limit because she "wasn't really paying attention" to what she was buying. To be fair, I believe I bought 30-something dollars worth of food and put it on my card along with her $100 -- but she went over her limit by something like $5 or $10!