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I did my budget.
My "rent, utilities, Metrocard, food, and nothing else" numbers say that it works out. But that's with my current spending on food, so if I get my food spending down far enough I can make room for a little fun; I have not been very good at packing lunches. And this being New York, there is sufficient fun to be had for free, especially if I can remember to bring water and a snack when I go out so I don't get lured into a Starbucks.
That leaves dipping into savings for Things That Come Up like glasses and haircuts and passport renewals, and so that I don't have to pinch pennies at WisCon, or when a friend comes up to visit in July.
Rent's going up in October, which will mean dipping into savings for sure. But then there's my 401k contribution -- I can stop that for a while.
But, hey. I can do this thing. I believe I can make it work for at least the next year. And then -- maybe the library will have money again, maybe I'll get enough money from writing to keep me solvent. There are a lot of maybes involved in this equation. I feel like that guy who, sentenced to execution, asked for just one year to teach the king's horse to sing.
"A lot of things can happen in a year. The king might die. The horse might die. I might die. And, who knows? Maybe the horse will sing."
My "rent, utilities, Metrocard, food, and nothing else" numbers say that it works out. But that's with my current spending on food, so if I get my food spending down far enough I can make room for a little fun; I have not been very good at packing lunches. And this being New York, there is sufficient fun to be had for free, especially if I can remember to bring water and a snack when I go out so I don't get lured into a Starbucks.
That leaves dipping into savings for Things That Come Up like glasses and haircuts and passport renewals, and so that I don't have to pinch pennies at WisCon, or when a friend comes up to visit in July.
Rent's going up in October, which will mean dipping into savings for sure. But then there's my 401k contribution -- I can stop that for a while.
But, hey. I can do this thing. I believe I can make it work for at least the next year. And then -- maybe the library will have money again, maybe I'll get enough money from writing to keep me solvent. There are a lot of maybes involved in this equation. I feel like that guy who, sentenced to execution, asked for just one year to teach the king's horse to sing.
"A lot of things can happen in a year. The king might die. The horse might die. I might die. And, who knows? Maybe the horse will sing."