And why I don’t lend money.
It was 11:00PM on a Friday and I heard a ping on my phone. Swiping up to see the notifications, a message from an old friend, one I hadn’t seen or spoken to in 4 years.
“Hey man, I’m having some cash flow issues. I’m hoping I can borrow $50 to get to work tomorrow and park. I’ll have a paycheck to pay you back on the 18th.”
But it’s always just temporary.
I lied awake one night staring at the ceiling. Here I am, 28 going on 29, lying on an my lowly Ikea futon bed, listening to my early 20-something year old roommate blast music just outside my door and hoping that miraculously the landlord will maybe turn up the heat so the apartment isn’t so cold.
At the time, I muttered to myself: “What is my life? I have a good job, I’m getting older, and here I am in this dingy apartment dealing with this.”
Continue reading “The Math Supporting Living with Roommates”
Why I haven’t felt 100% these past few weeks.
I’ve been feeling low the past few weeks and I didn’t know why at first. Everything was going fine: new job was chugging alone just fine, my savings rate increased up to 15% with the salary increase, I was eating significantly healthier, and family and social life remained strong. Yet, for whatever reason, I couldn’t shake a little feeling in my body that what my life was up to wasn’t good enough.
Last month I spoke about how I had spent a crazy amount of money in February and once again in March. I was hoping April would be a notch lower – and it was until I bought a $722 suit. It is the price you pay when you work in a job that values “professional attire” and I particularly was looking for something long lasting. More on that later in a future post.
So there went another $2,722.18 at a savings rate of 53.82%. At this rate I am far exceeding my spending amount of $2000 per month and lagging in my goal for a 60% savings rate.
