We are Living in a Material World and I am a Material Man |
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The last two weeks have been fairly expensive ones for me. I went quite awhile without adding a lot of expenses and it was a streak that I expected to end at some point.
I went to three Red Sox - Athletics baseball games last week. The tickets were $30 a piece, but the seats were exceptional seats. Parking and tolls cost me $20 each day and it was probably another $25 in gas for all three days. Food, wow, it’s very pricey. A single draft domestic beer at Oakland Coliseum was $7.50. It did seem like it might be a 20 oz. beer, but that’s still really expensive for a team that can only put 27,000 people in the seats - half of them rooting for the away team. Of course this a bargain compared to tickets in Boston, which are so difficult to get, your best bet is through an agency at a ridiculous mark-up.
I followed that up with a $280 purchase of my travel computer that I described yesterday. My spending didn’t stop there. Last night, the spending continued. We had friends coming from out of town, so we went out for dinner. We found a fairly cheap place so the damage was minimal.
It looks like we’re going to have to start seriously saving again. I imagine it will last about a month, when we have to write the final checks for the wedding. After that though, we are going to start a grand two year savings plan. It might even include our first attempt at budgeting.
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June 19th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
I don’t think that’s really material. We work for food, shelter, clothing AND entertainment. If your budget were perfect, there would be no need for us to oogle.
June 19th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
How did you get red sox ticekts for only $30! That’s a steal, was it out west? Darn I didn’t think Fenway had tickets that cheap.
June 19th, 2007 at 10:59 am
I am a boomer with nothing which could be considered “career-related” experience. Employers don’t hire inexperienced people my age for “good” jobs. I don’t expect there is a better job in my future.