Mamamia’s What My Salary Gets Me asks Australians to record a week in their financial lives. Kind of like a sex diary but with money. So not like a sex diary at all. We still find out the best kept secrets though. We discover what women are really spending their hard-earned cash on. Nothing is too outrageous or too sacred. This week, a 22-year-old disability worker from Young, NSW, shares her money diary.
Age: 22
Job: Disability worker
Salary: $38,000
Housing: Renting with my mother
Savings: $2000
Car: $5000
Household content: $5000
Regular expenses (monthly):
Rent – $600
Phone – $170
Fuel – $100
Anytime Fitness – $59
Utilities – $100
Internet – $60
Netflix – $15.99
Foxtel – $50
Spotify – $5.99
Consolidated loan: $260 repayment
Monday – Day one
I finish work at 6am after doing a sleepover so I drive home, shower and lie on the lounge binge-watching Netflix for the rest of the day. Mum shouts me a coffee from McDonald’s. I snack on food in the fridge during the day. I look at Sephora and Mecca online but talk myself out of buying anything. I love online shopping.
Mamamia staff confess what their debt is. Post continues after video.
Top Comments
Why do people keep omitting food from their regular monthly expenses list?
What's going on with the comments at the moment? I commented on this article a few hours ago, my comment hasn't shown up, but another comment posted only 1 hour ago has?
That happens literally all the time. I've got a comment pending right now, yet two I posted after that one (and not very long after it either) have both gone up.