hermit

until june 2009 i am going to have to survive something like 5 quid per day, including everything. nothing drastic, just a kind of come-uppance for having been a spoilt brat for 28 long years, feeding off the umbilical cord. the cord is now finally 2 way, and there are deficits to fill. when i was a student, i didn't think about it; when i was earning 25k p.a., i didn't bother; when i was completely dependent on my job and my company and my boss's moods, i didn't look beyond my next expensive chocolate fix. suddenly now, with more income and more freedom than ever before, i am in a complete paradox. in the middle of the recession and with job security an unknown quantity and therefore more stress and uncertainty, i am broke beyond belief. i cannot afford taxis, new shoes, new clothes, drinking out, eating out, and therefore any modicum of socialising or even meeting boys and grinding up against the naughty ones. and whatnot. this will last until at least june, more of course if i get laid off. then i'll have to write a different blog post of course, with a new equation.
contrary to expectation, i feel very relieved. i am hermit. i will blissfully hide, and crawl out only to commune with river or golden sun. wish i could get paid without going in to work as well. that would be peaches.

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Anonymous said…
Maintain an excel sheet. Mahatma Gandhi says in his autobio that it's the best way to keep expenses under control. He did not mention MS Excel per se, so feel free to use google spreadsheets or any other...

Inky
Chicu said…
i do maintain an excel sheet( and create monthly expenditure charts in shades of pink), but i don't know about keeping things under control..
Tara said…
your budget spreadsheet is pink? i think that's totally enchanting. you can't possibly be TOTALLY depressed looking at a pink spreadsheet (majorly depressed perhaps. but not totally completely shattered.) i think i shall just change mine now as well... permission granted? i can put a tiny footnote in saying colour-choice courtesy of Wendigo, 2009.
wendigo said…
hehe.. too true. sadly the pink spreadsheet isn't mine - 'me' is someone else's pen name. i depend on my canny intuition to keep accounts. therefore, am in the red.
Tara said…
haha should've known!!

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