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[dolari]

Preliminary budget for the first paycheck. I estimated my cash low, and my payouts high.

$1000 starting cash:

$525 - RENT
$150 - RADIO (optional)
$100 - CLOTHES
$40 - SHOES
$80 - GAS

$105 spending money.

I'd like to get a cell phone as my primary phone, particularly a Sidekick 3 (I have some friends who are sold on it), but that's $300. I'd also like to get glasses, but for that I'd need an exam and new frames which'll be a prtty penny. I may wait until my third paycheck (a non rent paycheck) to get those. Hope these'll hold out till then.

However, if my paycheck is bigger than I estimated (and it prolly will be) I'll skip the radio and go for the glasses, or the phone, whichever I can afford. I can even step back on gas, too, if I need to seeing as I'll be biking into work.

Two weeks to my first paycheck! :)

Comments

[mollities.livejournal.com]

My two cents:

Do phone. Unless the glasses are just falling apart.

Contacts, if you can wear them, can be a bit cheaper than glasses, too...with exam, it only cost me about $100. And, that includes the glasses prescription for later.

Just my two cents.

[amw.livejournal.com]

On the flip side, an expensive phone is much less cool without an expensive plan to go with it. Having glasses or contacts that fit right make you happy every minute of the day and you don't need to pay any extra.

I got my glasses for about $125, frame and lenses inclusive. I did, however, get the superduper cheapass lenses that glare from all angles. It could be an option to start with that and upgrade the lenses over time, though.

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

>Do phone. Unless the glasses are just falling apart.

That's just it. They ARE falling apart. :)

Phone first, though. I need a landline of somekind. I just hope the glasses'll hold on an extra two weeks.