I’m sure you’ve all been through this before. Those couple of months of your life where it seems like you’re just haemorrhaging money.

$100 there, $400 here, a few meals out and extra-curricular sports fees there.

In all seriousness I have gone from being a bit too wealthy for my age to being scarily poor.

Now at this point I have to point out that when I say poor a LOT of people I know would say I’m rich compared to them but for me poor is a feeling. It is that fear that ‘wow maybe soon I won’t be able to afford to rent my crappy apartment, or go out ever’. So from now on I’ve decided to reinstate the budgetary policy that got me to a stage where I was “a bit too wealthy for my age”. This involves a lot of not doing anything. No adventures to the cinema or sushi once a week with my friends. And possibly the saddest part of it all is giving up drinking.

One night out can have me spending an insane amount. I mean think about it 1 drink = $5-$12 and even with me being a lightweight when it comes to drinking that is still adding up to me spending $50 - $120 (OH GOD) in an evening then comes the food on the way home that’s another $10ish dollars. And heaven forbid a Taxi ($20).

Drinking is killing my brain cells and burning a hole in my pocket.

Another thing that recently has caused me to cry away some money is the repair costs for my iPhone. Now I’m fully aware that I am one of the very few people who drops their iPhone into a toilet (while out drinking. Coincidence?)
This has pleasantly set me back $350, because of course water damage isn’t covered under warranty. DAMN YOU STEVE JOBS!!!

ANYWHO, the point of this post is to let you know that I will be enjoying a lot of bad television from my house for the next few weeks, a lot of home made sandwiches and wearing dirty clothes continually (because our washing machine got wrecked in the QLD floods). Other than that I’ll be job hunting… or dead.