Where's the money?!

Has anyone noticed how quickly $100 disappears as of late? It's frightening. Twenty years ago, I remember that 5 dollars would last almost the whole week. I remember when Cookie Crisp cereal was 1.98 plus tax per box. I remember when it was ok to have THREE birthday cakes for someones birthday (if it was a big party and they were home made but STILL. IT WAS THREE CAKES!)

Now I'm 24. A month away from becoming 25. I realize that almost everything including a meal at McDonalds totals up to about $10. What does this mean to the typical part time worker / student? It means that 76% of our paychecks will be gone in less than a week if we make less than $300 every two weeks. If you have a contract cell phone and have to buy a bus pass then consider yourself latched at home and praying that something good on tv or a new anime comes on or that you can at least entertain yourself with some extremely absorbing mathematics or chemistry problems from the review packet of your next exam. At the very least, you might hope that your parents buy some paint to redo the living room just so you can watch PAINT DRY!

This isn't to say there are no options out there for free or almost free entertainment, but it does appear that people are going to have to start adjusting their idea of what entertainment really is in the first place. Hip Hop clubs with half naked women and ghetto girls bouncing their gadoonkadoonks? Sorry guys, those are now considered a hot item and you'll be paying at least $45 by the time the evening is over, don't assume the entry fee into the club is all there is. Ski trips and snowboarding? Only if you live in that type of area and can find a place of your own to do it for free, most of those places are now a luxury with a price tag to make someone want to sell their ovaries or their first born to science. I think you get the idea. What can be done for free? Book clubs, poetry clubs, art gallery openings, park fairs (sometimes its like $4 for an entry fee though). The point is, don't give up who you are, but find out if who you are is capable of appreciating something outside of your comfort zone. It might save you a LOT of money in the long run.


From my low paying front desk job;
Plutonia