Now that I’ve moved out of my parents’ house and on my own, the extra monthly rental cost looms large over my overall spending budget. To have a sizable chunk of my income that I once could squirrel away for something super fun (like a Porsche 911 GT3) now just utterly gone every first of the month is a huge change indeed. Priorities have shifted, and I definitely cannot be as cavalier with money as I used to.
Budgets, then, is something I now how to keep a keen eye on. For the few months since I’ve moved out, I’ve done rather well. However, we are still in the middle of the pandemic, and therefore spending levels are depressed. The inability to go out and do stuff quite naturally saves a bit of money. No doubt that once the world returns to normal, my monthly spending on restaurants and whatnot will certainly increase dramatically.
Obviously I’ll have to make that adjustment.
That said, I am very excited for the day I can spend a Friday evening hanging out with friends at a restaurant. Even a homebody like myself have reached a toleration limit with the lockdowns. Deprived of the option to socialize, there’s nothing I want more now than to call up friends to see what’s happening on the weekends. Funny how that sort of psychology works.
So it’s going to be okay when my monthly spending inevitably goes up. That means the pandemic is over, and we’re back to our regularly-scheduled programming. Having been essentially locked inside of my house for nearly a year, I am most ready for the pendulum to go the other way. To hang out with friends and going places every weekend. Perhaps, even weekday nights!
At the car wash.