>£240 for monthly shopping (food and stuff)
>£45 for gym membership
>£13 for fuel per month
>Nearly £300 per month to just to get fit
The frick?
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>240 for monthly shopping (food and stuff). >45 for gym membership. >13 for fuel per month
how much is your health worth to you, anon?
>$10/month for gym membership
>going to eat food no matter what
>gym close enough that i could walk
Yeah if I didn't lift I'd spend 0 on food every month
I spend 360 a month, and I'm already buying the cheapest or most discounted shit
You're acting like that's a lot of money.
I make less than £1,400 a month.
your health isn't the issue here if that's too much spending for you.
If you're that poor then you should look into getting a cheaper gym membership and get buy cheaper groceries, just go for the great value off brand shit, buy in bulk and take advantage of deals and coupons if available.
Jesus. Just go to uni.
Are you shopping at aldi/lidl? 1400 a month is rough to live on if you're paying rent. Are you working towards any kind of qualification or training to get a better job eventually?
i live in the united states. i use a bicycle to get everywhere (farthest journey is a climbing gym 10 miles away) my current bicycle i found on the side of the road; it was missing a seat which i found on a junk bicycle and a crank which i bought off the internet with tools for $40.
i eat chicken breast and beans with a can of smoked oysters in the morning. the weekly cost of this breakfast is about $3.50/day ($10.99 for chicken, $9 for oysters, $4 for beans) in addition i drink a quart of kefir, which i make from grocery store milk, which costs about $.65.
i do not eat lunch. about once a week a co-worker of mine will buy me a lunch from a fast food restaurant.
for dinner I eat a pound of pasta with tomato sauce. The pasta costs about $1 per day. I used to buy jarred sauce, but this was about $3.50/day. Now I make my own once weekly at the cost of about $8. My sauce has a lot less sugar than jarred sauce anyway! I usually drink water with this, but not infrequently I'll drink a quart of milk, again costing $.65.
taking into account my rent, which with a roommate is about $22.50/day, and my dental insurance, which is about $.80, I require just over $30 a day to just live. I work in a warehouse making about $130 a day after taxes, so I am very comfortably stocking away money. I like my life a lot!
Your life sounds like shit
thats funny. i don't feel that way. why do you feel that way?
You live in America, don't have a car, have a room mate, and work in a warehouse
???
>projecting your standards of living onto others
anon says he’s happy, he’s happy. grow up you dumb Black person
>just own nothing and be happy bro!
Frick off israeli shill
when did i imply that you dumb homosexual? anon said he was happy, he’s happy. not everyone needs a bunch of money to be happy you materialistic c**t.
the only other place i have lived besides america is russia, if only briefly, and i thought it was very dirty and grey there. its very bright and clean here. what is a better place to live?
i have the money to buy a car if i so pleased, but I prefer the bicycle. certainly I do when i hear the people at work complain: "My registration is expiring, my taillight broke, my battery died, my insurance went up!" I can go all over, and don't have to carry any sort of identification (No papers? No papers.) and I don't have to pay car insurance (i don't like paying my dental insurance). the machine is very powerful, but at least for now its not worth the trouble.
my roommate I almost never see. he leaves out his garbage in common areas from time to time, but i'm not so bothered. i'm at least as bad with my tomato sauce pot!
and the warehouse work suits me well; its physical, i'm alone probably six hours of the day, working with things, there's a lot of natural light and fresh air.
maybe its a matter of mindset, but I think the peace is better than the excitement!
Why do people born in America with legal status and everything become such pathethic losers?
I had about 100 things going against me and I still got an engineering degree and worked in an office
>working in an office is making it
gross. make sure wear a silly sweater for the wacky wednesday event anon. HR lady karen is going to get grumpy if you dont participate and we are part of a team around here.
NTA but what do you do for a living if that's so bad?
Blue collar work out in nature
NTA but the furhomosexualry gave it away
teach me your ways senpai but notice I’m in Europe
i don't know anything about living in europe. I lived in Russia for a time,
but since I wasn't born there I lived as a foreigner. I hear that the tax burden on Europeans is much greater than on Americans, and that food is much more expensive. It seems to me that a life like mine would be harder there than it is here.
But know that I could hardly live like I do without stores like Lidl, which put our American grocers to shame! without Lidl or Aldi my oyster price would instantaneously double.
but what am I supposed to say that I haven't already shown? I can post Seneca for you, I always like reading Seneca's letters.
"In order that Idomeneus may not be introduced free of charge into my letter, he shall make up the indebtedness from his own account. It was to him that Epicurus addressed the well-known saying urging him to make Pythocles rich, but not rich in the vulgar and equivocal way. "If you wish," said he, "to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires." This idea is too clear to need explanation, and too clever to need reinforcement. There is, however, one point on which I would warn you, – not to consider that this statement applies only to riches; its value will be the same, no matter how you apply it. "If you wish to make Pythocles honourable, do not add to his honours, but subtract from his desires"; "if you wish Pythocles to have pleasure for ever, do not add to his pleasures, but subtract from his desires"; "if you wish to make Pythocles an old man, filling his life to the full, do not add to his years, but subtract from his desires." There is no reason why you should hold that these words belong to Epicurus alone; they are public property. I think we ought to do in philosophy as they are wont to do in the Senate: when someone has made a motion, of which I approve to a certain extent, I ask him to make his motion in two parts, and I vote for the part which I approve. So I am all the more glad to repeat the distinguished words of Epicurus, in order that I may prove to those who have recourse to him through a bad motive, thinking that they will have in him a screen for their own vices, that they must live honourably, no matter what school they follow."
You can do it on the cheap if you really want: Weighted chin-ups and dips, a duffel full of bags of cement for squats, a decent set of adjustable dumbbells, or kettlebells. Initial outlay might be expensive, but once you've bought them, you got them forever, and they'll never not be useful.
I'm gonna say living in Britain is your first mistake.
t. fellow bong
Man, why'd you guys bail on the EU? The British dream was getting a job in Denmark or Germany.
what fricking gym membership costs £45? where do you live?
To be fair mine costs around $50, base package is $42ish and then it's another $8 to get access to another location (which is closer to my home). I'm thinking of switching cause then I'd be able to pay my entire gym membership with benefits from work but my dad has a membership at this gym and I like working out with him.
idk about the prices in the US, but I'm assuming OP is from the UK. i've never seen a gym cost £45 per month. i pay £20 for a 24 hour gym in a reasonably sized city. even in London they're only like £25-30 from what i can see
>mfw i have only 50k in the bank at 31
It's fricking over bros i even lost my job how will i survive in this inflation?
I had 70k and decided to buy an 20k used car because of fricking pride of grinding so long and 3 months after getting it I have to start paying rent (500 a month) for the first time in my life and I’m a freelance filmmaker and is dead season and make around 600 per month now until may.
My life is literally over. Should I frugalmaxx? I was fricking stupid buying that car bros.
Oh also I fricking broke up with my gf and can’t even get over her
is this new pasta? i remember when the pastas used to be elaborate, funny, and actual stories now it’s a bunch of lq indian tier spam
It’s literally my situation you fricking moron
>50k in the bank at 31
This is fine
>freelance filmmaker
This isn't.
Go back to school and get a cert or degree worth a damn.
You could start an LLC for your freelance down the line but if you're complaining on IST you probably won't have the autonomy for business, so just get a better paying job.
>50k is fine
Getting a midlife crisis on 2022 and spending 30k on new pc, cameras and car and knowing if I wasn’t stupid I would be sitting with 90k right now and finally get an apartment and gtfo out of my parents house still haunts me. Even my bpd ex told me to not get the car ( she didn’t know how much money I had but she assumed I was poor)
>degree
At 31? What should I do? I kinda have a name in the wedding industry and have lots of weddings coming in for video edits but only charge 300 euros for it and it takes me 4 days to finish one but I wfh for like 4-6 hours a day. Should I increase the hours?
>autonomy
Actually I’m a good leader and have a good emotional intelligence to situations but my only problem is high neuroticism
Should I ask IST for advice? Also how careful/frugal should I be now?
Typed a similar story this morning in another thread but I was shitposting, I’m not trolling and I’m starting to be worried. My friends are all rich and settled
>At 31? What should I do?
You won't fix this overnight so you might as well do it right.
Speak with a career counselor at a university on what you could dedicate full/part time education to for while you work. If it's time sensitive for some reason you could only go for a cert or training for a trade which takes around 8 months for a middle class salary.
>kinda have a name in the wedding industry
I'm 28 and have a BFA I barely use for creative freelance like you (now continuing education for that very reason). Now I sub contract people that can help me complete projects so it
1.helps my reputation by word of mouth
2. keeps those that work with me paid and loyal.
3. is good passive side income.
I'm also American and on IST so YMMV, no advice here will beat talking to people irl that care to help and books from experts.
Get a real job, get rid of/replace the car if it's costing you a lot of money, go over your finances and create a proper budget (purge unnecessary shit like streaming services, see if you can't get a cheaper cellphone/internet plan etc, buy cheap groceries in bulk and meal prep. If you're single you have a great opportunity to both save and invest a lot of money but you are 31 man, you need a stable source of income.
Who.
Asked.
What about several other threads where you copy pasted it?
what fricking gym are you going to for it to be that expensive, puregym is half that
You can try isometrics. You can do them at home. You can even save up some money and buy one of those affordable pull/dip stand combinations and do those
>>£45 for gym membership
>>£13 for fuel per month
meanwhile for me
>£20.99/month for membership
>£0 for fuel because I just fricking walk there
You don't get to complain about your finances when you handle them so abysmally Anon
Paying with time instead of money. Unless you're close like in europ
>Paying with time instead of money.
20-25 minute walk there, 25 back
I just take it as my cardio though instead
Plus half the time, I frick off during my work hours if I'm able too (WFH) so I can do the "downtime" whilst getting paid for it.
>>£13 for fuel per month
what do you drive. which country. that's quite cheap
Keep voting neoliberals
>$300+ on groceries
>$0 to use the gym at work
>$0 on gas since I workout at work
Why are you even counting groceries as a fitness expense? You have to eat regardless
>£240 for monthly shopping (food and stuff)
>£60 a week
And you;re moaning? WTF. That's cheap as shit.
>£13 for fuel per month
OK you are a moron or a troll. Filling up your tank alone costs more than that.
>Nearly £300 per month to just to get fit
Having to eat to existence has frick all to do with getting fit.
Why do I have to live on the same earth as people with an IQ of 60?
It's only gonna go down hill from here. Either learn to love them or exit life