It's way too sweet but I'm in dire need of caffeine.ĩ:15 a.m. We're running out of K-Cups, and I settle for a French Vanilla one with Salted Chocolate Caramel creamer. I get to work and make another cup of coffee in the office kitchen. He's a teacher and has the summer off, although he coaches a baseball camp that starts at 9 a.m.Ĩ:30 a.m. I say goodbye to the cat and my boyfriend who's still asleep. I watch YouTube videos at the coffee table while I sip my coffee, eat breakfast, and pet the cat.ħ:50 a.m. I'm so tired and not very hungry, so I heat up the last two turkey sausage links and grab two hardboiled eggs I cooked last weekend. I shuffle to the kitchen to make coffee, feed the cat who is dying for attention, and start making breakfast. I wake up for work after a night of not sleeping well. I have auto draft into my savings from my checking account once a month, but I usually end up pulling it back out for an unexpected expense. I've had a credit card for about a year, and as much as I hate to admit it, it stays maxed out most of the time. I started paying for this a few years ago when my dad realized he never signed me up when I bought my car.Ĭredit Card Payment: $35. My birth control is free, but the medication my therapist has me on costs about $8.Ĭar Insurance: $107. I see my therapist biweekly for $25 a session. I financed through Apple and am still chipping away at my payments. I take care of the electric and water bills initially, then my boyfriend pays me back for his half ($56) on Venmo.Ĭomputer Payment: $50. We each also pay $12.50 extra a month to have our cat.Ĭar Loan: $260. I rent a two-bed, two-bath apartment with my boyfriend, and we split it evenly. Paycheck (2x/month): $1,061.91 after taxes and health insurance (paid out on the 15th and last day of the month) This week, she spends some of her money on La Roche-Posay moisturizer from CVS. So depending on your situation, earning $30,000 or so can be doable, or it can feel overwhelming.Īhead, we look at the spending habits of five women in and outside of the United States, from what they have to spend money on, to what they hope to spend money on in the future.įirst up: a marketing director who makes $35,000 per year. And depending on your location, $100 might not get you very far. Let's not forget, either, how much of our incomes is dedicated to housing: According to the 2017 State of the Nation Housing report, more than 11 million renters spent at least half of their income on housing in 2015. Food often eats up a significant amount of people's weekly or monthly budgets, as can the cost of transportation and healthcare. Today, we're thinking about how women living on a salary in the $30,000 range spend their money in a given week.
We're asking millennials how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period - and we're tracking every last dollar. Welcome to Money Diaries, where we're tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money.
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