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[sebastienne]

bold for booze, italics for non-ingested expenditure.

Monday

Eat Natural bar - 65p
Carrots - 15p
Houmous - 74p
1/2 jar pasta sauce - 23p
1/2 tin lentils - 16p
1/2 tin peas - 12p
handful brown pasta -6p

2x Cider & Black - £5.60

£2.11
£7.71


Tuesday

2x toast - 40p
Eat Natural bar - 65p
3x oatcakes - 8p
cheese - 30p
banana - 15p
roast veg & salsa wrap - £2.10
pancakes & pie - 27p

cider & black - £2


£5.37
£7.37

Wednesday

Cheese & sweetcorn toastie 40p
prawn cocktail crisps - 50p
cherry flapjack - 75p
diet coke - 60p
fruit bar - 20p
banana - 15p
sweet potato - 80p
1/2 jar pasta sauce - 23p
1/2 tin lentils - 16p
1/2 tin peas - 12p

£3.91


Thursday

toast - 10p
cheese - 20p
soya cappucino - £2.25
toffee cheesecake - £2
courgette, pepper, mushroom, spring onion, carrot - £3

cider & black - £2

£7.55
£9.55


Friday

carrot - 20p
houmous - 75p
G&Ds Assam - £1.85
toast - 20p
cheese - 40p
banana custard - 40p
chip pitta - £1.40

Art Deco Techno entrance - £10

shots - £5
3x diet coke - £3
beer - £2
vodka & coke - £2.50

£5.20
£15.20
£27.70


Saturday

noodles - 8p
peanut butter - 15p
bottle of coke - 89p
packet of love hearts - 15p

£1.27


Sunday

toast - 20p
cheese - 50p
falafel wrap - 75p
crumpets - 30p
filled pasta - £1.25

bra - £24
deoderant - £1.99
shampoo - £1.75
hair dye - £2.99

£3
£33.73


Week

£28.41
£50.51
91.24

So this is me living off £150/month?
Bloody hell, no wonder I'm so far into my overdraft...

I guess I'm going to have to give up drinking. I don't know how other people manage it...

Comments

[deathbyshinies.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear, I still owe you a drink, don't I...?

Next year we shall not give up drinking. Instead we shall have everyone over to ours, which will be a palace of wonderment far better than any club or pub in existence, and charge them for booze!

And then I will fail my PhD and we will all run away and become nightclub impressarios instead. We bloody could, you know...


(Also, I am slightly worried about how little you seem to be eating, although deeply impressed by your l33t food budgetting skillz. Is this with Wadham feeding you for some meals?)

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

I don't know who owes what, but as I have some incredibly posh-looking wine-in-a-box that I think you left here on Friday, I reckon we're probably equal.

Besides, as you so rightly point out, one drink is hardly going to matter when we are nightclub impressarios.

I don't think I'm eating particularly little - bear in mind that this is my expenditure on any given day, so on Monday there was also some free chocolate and on Saturday night Ashley bought us Chinese. I was having real problems with binge eating towards the end of term (not eating all day then bingeing obscenely in the evenings), so I'm making myself have three meals a day now, even if they are just a piece of toast or some carrots & houmous.

[deathbyshinies.livejournal.com]

Well, fair enough, I suppose. I'm proceeding on the rationale that I would quickly die from spending that little on food, forgetting that not everyone a) eats like a particularly greedy horse and b) is too lazy to walk a forty-minute round trip to eat lunch at home when they're in the city so ends up spending all their money on roast vegetable sandwiches and sushi.

Still, take care of the sebastienne, yes?

(Nightclub impressarios FTW!)

[half-of-monty.livejournal.com]

Just stop drinking out much. After all, you have pretty room.

(You're on a budget so it makes so much more sense to buy a crate...)

[antoniabaker.livejournal.com]

hip flasks are the way forward baby, and now you can get them in pink!

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

That's fantastic. Mind if I add that as a .sig quote? OK if I put your name on it?

[antoniabaker.livejournal.com]

sure honey, feel free.

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Added as quote number 260. See here (http://samur41.org.uk/lad/sigfortune) for the full list (you're right at the bottom, but you could have guessed that).

[antoniabaker.livejournal.com]

Hurruh I always knew I'd achieve immortality.

[glamwhorebunni.livejournal.com]

£150 a month? Isn't possible, at all. Not in this country, anyway.

[sebastiality.livejournal.com]

It is. I lived off £25/30 a week in my first year. Of course, there was food in the evenings (monday-friday) provided by college. I even felt I was spending too much. Didn't hit the overdraft until my 2nd year.

[glamwhorebunni.livejournal.com]

True, I guess if you're having a free meal each day then it's possible. It's not too hard to have cheap meals twice a day if you have a cooked supper ahead.

[andustar.livejournal.com]

Are the 8p noodles actually nice? *boggle*

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

the key is to throw away the manky flavouring sachet that comes with them, and add interesting things eg soy sauce / sweet chilli sauce / peanut butter (it's satay sauce! honestly!)

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

I go for the "spend slightly more on my noodles" approach, myself. But then I get funding (until September, at least).

By the way, did you know that the inventor of instant ramen, Ando Momofuku (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momofuku_Ando), died recently at the age of 96?

[andustar.livejournal.com]

I'm still not convinced the noodles themselves won't be cardboard in disguise, but I may give it a go one day when I'm feeling desperate!