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Today: a business administrator who makes $132,600 per year. This week, she buys a selfie stick to use with her dad.
Occupation: Business ManagerIndustry: TelecomAge: 26Location: New York, NYSalary: $132,600Paycheck (2x/month): $2,840
Monthly ExpensesHousing: $1,250 to hire my allotment of a three-bedroom accommodation in Chelsea with two added roommates.Loan Payments: None. I accustomed abounding scholarship for all four years of college.
All Added Monthly ExpensesGym Membership: $55Internet: $18 (my share, afterwards three-way breach with my roommates)Gas & Electricity: $20 (my share, afterwards three-way breach with my roommates)Health Insurance: $180401(k): $650
Day One
8:30 a.m. — I beddy-bye in two hours added than usual. I about deathwatch up at 6:30 a.m. for an hour anniversary of calm cycling and active outside, but I afresh afflicted myself and can't exercise for two weeks. I don't apperception the added beddy-bye though! I booty a quick shower, tidy up for work, and adjudge to airing the two afar to my appointment downtown.
11 a.m. — Afterwards my morning affairs are over, I apprehend I haven't eaten annihilation yet. Not appliance two hours afore assignment actually kills my appetite! I'm action a bit athirst and I apparently won't eat cafeteria until 1:30 p.m., so I grab a basin of atom from the appointment kitchen. I adulation bond cereal! Today's brew includes a scattering of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Reese's Peanut Butter Puffs, Captain Crunch, and Rice Krispies with boilerplate almond milk.
1:30 p.m. — I accept 30 chargeless account afore my abutting meeting. I accede avaricious article quick from Accomplished Foods, but as I put on my anorak to leave the office, I apprehension there is a behemothic basin of extra sandwiches in the kitchen. I grab two altered affectionate of wraps — portobello augment with beets, and a dupe cheese and craven Caesar blanket — and absorb them at my desk. Adulation chargeless lunches!
3:15 p.m. — I've been in and out of affairs all day and allegation to get some beginning air. I footfall out of the appointment to airing about for a bit. I do some window arcade at Brookfield Abode (one of the nicest, glitziest arcade capital in Manhattan!) and account cool comfortable, blah yoga pants from Lululemon. It's 50% off approved price, so I accomplish the acquirement afterwards alike aggravating it on. $50
5:30 p.m. — Such a nice abatement day outside, alike admitting it's November. It's already angle atramentous admitting because aurora accumulation time aloof ended. I abhorrence aback it gets aphotic about 4 p.m.! I airing home afresh to get my accomplish in. I accede endlessly by Sephora to buy a mascara, but adjudge to arch home because I'm hungry. I stop by my neighborhood's CVS to get three bottles of Diet Pepsi, my accusable pleasure; they're on auction for $0.99 each. $3.29
7 p.m. — I am aggravating a new meal cable account alleged RealEats. Anniversary meal is vacuum-sealed into food-safe, recyclable artificial pouches that you abode into baking baptize and voila! Tonight's card is braised lamb with polenta and ambrosial carrots. It's accessible to adapt and tastes delicious. I eat bisected of the ice chrism sandwich for dessert. $15
10 p.m. — One of my attached announces today that she got a new job in San Francisco and will be affective there by the end of the month. While she is technically amenable for award accession to booty her lease, I additionally feel answerable to acquisition accession I like. I column on several sites about the allowance opening, and adjure that I will be "matched" with accession sane. My affliction daydream is audition these abhorrence belief about accidental Craigslist roommates. I allocution to my mom for a bit afore action to bed.
Daily Total: $68.29
Day Two
8:10 a.m. — I couldn't abatement comatose until 2 a.m. aftermost night, apparently because I had bristles cans of Diet Coke. (Again, it's my vice!) I begrudgingly deathwatch up, booty a shower, and booty my 8:30 a.m. alarm in bed. The affair runs over by 30 minutes, but luckily I accept some bottomward time so adjudge to airing to assignment again. It's declared to rain afterwards today, so I accomplish abiding to accompany an umbrella. I accept to a podcast (I'm bedeviled with How I Built This, Hidden Brain, and Planet Money, amid others) on the way.
1:30 p.m. — I haven't eaten annihilation aback I woke up this morning, so I am starving. I see extra sandwiches in the appointment kitchen (day two of chargeless cafeteria continues!), so I grab two craven bloom sandwiches. There's a acceptable bulk of breakable craven smothered in mayonnaise with walnuts and craisins. I'm feel athirst afterwards blaze the sandwiches, so I booty a scattering of aisle mix to bite on (and end up acrimonious out the M&Ms to eat).
5 p.m. — I appetite to abide my band of walking to work, but it is cloudburst outside. My shoes get blood-soaked while walking to the abutting alms station. ($2.75) Rainy canicule are my atomic favorite. Afore branch home, I stop by a adornment boutique abreast my apartment. My best acquaintance from college, who is in boondocks this anniversary for work, acclaimed her altogether aftermost week; I am alleviative her to banquet tonight. I get her 14-karat gold-coated, admirable argent earrings ($54). $56.75
6 p.m. — Two girls appear appointment the accommodation to see the allowance that is aperture up. One is a additional brand abecedary from Tennessee, while the added works in finance. Both girls assume affable and respectful. Given the prime area of my accommodation (and it actuality rent-controlled), I don't anguish about award accession to ample the room. It feels like acceleration dating. Do they like me? Do I like them?
6:40 p.m. — My acquaintance and I accommodated for banquet at a contemporary Asian admixture restaurant in the Meatpacking District. Aggregate on the card looks delicious, and our eyes become bigger than our stomachs. We adjustment aggregate from dumplings and noodles, to sushi rolls and sashimi. We save allowance for ambrosia — mochi! I am afraid to attending at the accident we've done aback the waitress brings our check. Well, you alone alive once! The bill doesn't attending so bad aback you breach it. At atomic I didn't absorb any money on cafeteria bygone and today. I additionally accompany aback leftovers; "free" cafeteria tomorrow, I suppose. $140
11 p.m. — I am actually tired, both from bistro all the aliment and from action to bed backward aftermost night. I apprehend the latest Time annual that came in the mail today (I get a chargeless cable through work) and hit the sack.
Daily Total: $196.75
Day Three
8:30 a.m. — Yesterday, a cloudburst of rain came in, and today came winter — the temperature alone 20 degrees to arresting that it is clearly winter. I put on a knee-length, gray absolute covering and mittens to break balmy on my drive to work. I afresh upgraded to an iPhone 7 Plus (no, I could not absolve bottomward $1,000 for the iPhone X), so I asked my brother if he capital my old, yet actually anatomic buzz (iPhone 6 SE Plus). I stop by USPS to address it to him in California. It should be delivered in two days. $8.35
1:30 p.m. — Wednesdays are my active days, and I'm in affairs all day. Luckily, my 1:30 p.m. affair is a WebEx and I am aloof alert in, so I grab my extra banquet from aftermost night (spicy adolescent rolls topped with torched salmon, and two dumplings) and eat it for lunch. I booty two Halloween chocolates from the kitchen as well.
6 p.m. — I've been central all day, so I can't delay to leave the appointment to get beginning air. I bung in my headphones, accept to music on Spotify (I'm on a chargeless subscription; I actually don't apperception the casual bartering breaks), and actually area out during my 40-minute airing home. I stop by a Thai restaurant and aces up craven pad Thai for dinner. $16
6:30 p.m. — Accession babe alcove out to accurate her absorption in the apartment. Because she can alone break for the abutting six months, and I don't appetite to go through the altercation of award accession roommate, I attentive abatement her request.
7 p.m. — My acquaintance texts me actually at the aftermost minute, allurement if I appetite to see M. Butterfly on Broadway because she got a brace of comped tickets. I've been absent to see this play, so I anon alarm Uber to get to the amphitheater as anon as possible. I appointment some traffic, but administer to get to Times Square aural 20 minutes. I am a bit backward to the show, but can't complain; we accept amazing orchestra seats in the sixth row. The comedy is beautiful, and I adore every minute of it. $20
10:15 p.m. — My acquaintance and I airing about for a bit afterwards the show. I am actual athirst because I didn't accept a adventitious to eat my craven pad Thai, which is apparently all dry by now. I assumption I will save it for cafeteria tomorrow. I actually appetite to eat the bendable serve ice chrism cone from McDonald's, but accord up on acceptable my appetite afterwards visiting THREE altered McDonald's with adulterated ice chrism machines. Sigh. I appear home instead and go to bed.
Daily Total: $44.35
Day Four
8:30 a.m. — The buzzer from our cleaner wakes me up. She comes already a ages to apple-pie the accepted spaces (living room, kitchen, and bathroom). Afterwards I accomplishment accepting accessible for work, I leave $120 (includes tip) for the cleaner. I Venmo $40 anniversary to my attached to breach the cost. $40
1 p.m. — For lunch, I eat the pad Thai I bought aftermost night. I am demography the day off from assignment tomorrow because my dad is visiting me from Atlanta. I try to multitask in adjustment to leave assignment a little early, but end up authoritative a blend by spilling baptize all over my laptop. Ugh, the weekend can't appear anon enough.
3:35 p.m. — Done with work! I blitz aback to my apartment, backpack my belongings, and arch to a auberge in Midtown area I am blockage with my dad for the abutting two nights. I capital to amusement him to a adequate appointment to NYC, so I appointed a baron suite. The affable agent offers me one of the best coveted rooms, which appearance an aboriginal photograph of Yoko Ono and John Lennon. The accommodation feels like a home abroad from home in the average of the city, with a adequate account alcove by the window overlooking the Manhattan skyline and two abounding bathrooms. $700
7:10 p.m. — I booty NJ Transit to the airport to aces up my dad. On the way to the station, I stop by Pret for algid coffee, but the accountant doesn't allegation me because "he brand my scarf." I accommodated my dad at the airport and we booty Lyft Line aback to the city. $29 for a cruise aback to Manhattan is such a acceptable deal, alike admitting we booty a 20-minute detour to bead off the added commuter in Jersey City. $43
9:30 p.m. — Shake Shack is listed as one of the items on my dad's agitation list. We go to the aboriginal area in Madison Square Park and adjustment bacon cheeseburger and loaded fries. Shake Shack is a bit too abundant and anointed for my liking, and I alone adopt In-N-Out. We airing aback to the auberge to advice with assimilation afore calling it a night. $21
Daily Total: $804
Day Bristles
10:45 a.m. — I am aflame to beddy-bye in and booty the day off from assignment to adhere out with my dad! I begin out bygone that the auberge guests can book a HIIT chic at a CrossFit gym abutting aperture at a discounted price. My leg is action a lot bigger and I haven't done abundant exercise at all this week, so I adjudge to analysis it out. Upon arriving, I am anon abashed by the acutely fit men and women aggregate at the gym — and they all assume to apperceive anniversary other. We go through a annular of exercises. I am actually beat about 40 account into the chic and adjudge to do the "walk of shame" and bastard out. No regrets! $20
12:30 p.m. — My dad and I analysis out a new Shanghainese restaurant abreast the auberge for lunch. They accept acceptable cafeteria appropriate deals, but I actually appetite to try some items from the approved menu, including a behemothic soup dumpling that you eat with a straw. We end up acclimation a bit too abundant for two bodies and feel actual blimp afterward, so we adjudge to airing about in Central Park. $65
2:45 p.m. — We appointment the American Architecture of Natural History. (I got a adulatory one-year associates through IDNYC.) I could absorb the absolute day actuality afterwards accepting bored; the architecture is huge and there is so abundant to see. My admired display is the "Scales of the Universe," which illustrates the all-inclusive ambit of sizes in the universe. Every time I appear here, it makes me apprehend how atomic the apple is in the admirable arrangement of the Milky Way and the Universe.
6 p.m. — We appointment an American restaurant that specializes in bounded products, line-caught fish, and melancholia produce. The waitress recommends acclimation a agglomeration of babyish dishes and appetizers to share. My admired is the attic flatbread topped with cubes of butternut squash, dupe cheese crumble, babyish spinach, attic seeds, and a dribble of honey. It has a absurd antithesis of candied and savory. Banquet takes best than expected, so we skip ambrosia and bolt an Uber burghal for a show. $115
8 p.m. — We accept a fourth row bench at STOMP. From mops and brooms to arcade carts and artificial bags, STOMP performers use aggregate they see in afterimage to actualize accent and sound. The appearance is a bit too loud, and because the performers actually barge on the date to accomplish sound, it gets really, actually dusty. $200
10 p.m. — It's a nice black out, so my dad and I airing aback to the hotel. On the way, we stop by Accomplished Foods so I can buy vitamins. My dad tells me he is admiring NYC so far, and I am actually blessed to apprehend that. $10
Daily Total: $410
Day Six
10:35 a.m. — I am still action abounding from aftermost night's dinner. It's a admirable abatement day, so I adjudge to go for a jog outside. I run for about an hour and stop by a café to get a ample algid blooming tea. I don't alcohol coffee, but I adulation tea. I appear aback to the auberge and booty a quick shower. $3.29
12:30 p.m. — This is the aftermost meal with my dad afore he leaves NYC. We go to one of the oldest steakhouses abreast Wall Street, area we allow in Kobe beef filet mignon and accomplished aflame lobster. I don't commonly eat like this; this is a attenuate break area I get to amusement myself! Afterwards our abundant lunch, we booty a airing beyond the Brooklyn Bridge and booty pictures with a selfie stick I bought on Amazon a brace of canicule ago ($10). $230
3:15 p.m. — I accept a final action planned with my dad afore he active to the airport. We appointment a sleek, flush cine amphitheater area visitors can adore costly seating, gourmet bites, and affair while watching the latest films. Because we are still so abounding from lunch, we abatement alike the adulatory airheaded that comes with the cine admission purchase. The abounding collapsed seats, which are evocative of capital airline cabins, are so adequate that I apprehend my dad comatose during the movie. Embarrassing! $45
6 p.m. — I appointed a shuttle bus to aces up my dad and booty him to the airport. I don't get to see him actual often, so I actually try to clasp in as abundant as accessible aback he visits. $20
7:15 p.m. — As adequate as the auberge was, there is absolutely no abode like home! I am aflame to be aback in my accommodation and absorb the blow of the black lounging about and watching YouTube clips. I airing over to Accomplished Foods Market to aces up article to eat for dinner. I adulation their bloom bar selection. I put a little bit of aggregate (grilled chicken, candied potato, and quinoa) in the little cardboard container. $15
Daily Total: $313.29
Day Seven
10:15 a.m. — It feels like it should be Monday because I took Friday off, but it's still the weekend! I accept a accumulation of bedraggled laundry sitting in my room, so I cantankerous the artery to the abutting laundromat. I don't accept a washer and dryer in the building, but because I alive on the aboriginal attic and the beard is beyond the street. It has never actually agitated me much, except aback it's raining. I about accept to admeasure at atomic two and a bisected hours to do laundry. $4.50
12:30 p.m. — Afterwards dining out so abundant over the accomplished few days, I feel the allegation to go on a mini-cleanse. I airing over to a abstract bar abreast accommodation and aces out the healthiest aural cold-pressed juice, which includes kale, spinach, parsley, celery, and cucumber. It doesn't complete too appetizing, but I am hopeful my anatomy will acknowledge me afterward. $9.50
2:15 p.m. — I accept a little bit of assignment to do, mostly blockage and responding to emails and prepping for affairs advancing up this week. Afterwards two advantageous hours of work, I appetite to amusement myself — so I adjudge to get a manicure. I aces a pink, beam manicure to don my nails. The artisan applies balm on my dry easily and additionally gives me a mini-massage. $14
5:30 p.m. — My acquaintance told me about an amazing auction at Madewell, so I airing over to analysis it out. I can't accept my luck aback I acquisition a brace of summer shorts for aloof $5! Best of all, they are in my size. I buy four shorts and a button-up shirt, additionally on auction for aloof $10. Alike admitting I apparently won't be able to abrasion these until abutting summer, I am still so aflame for the amazing bargain. $30
7 p.m. — I dig through the fridge for article to eat for banquet so I don't accept to go outside. There's not much, but I aces out cottage cheese, microwavable mini-corn dogs, and a basin of atom (Special K with strawberries) with almond milk.
10:15 p.m. — I usually go to New Jersey already or alert a anniversary for work; it's about two-hour drive from Manhattan. I hit the lights aboriginal so I can get acceptable beddy-bye to alpha off the assignment week.
Daily Total: $58
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