I've been calculating my costs for various bills and expenses during class today. EEK!
2400 - Rent (half of rent)
1500 - Food
200 - Cell phone
200 - Shampoo/toothpaste/etc
275 - Cable/Internet/TV
250 - Apartment phone
100 - Electricity
That's almost 5,000 SEK for just the expected monthly stuff with no play money! Right now the bills should be a bit lower since we're splitting phone/rent/electricity with Jenny as well. But planning for the expected highest costs is what I do best.
I've had a lot of other expenses since I got to Sweden as well.
1000 - New bike
80 - new inner tubes for said bike when tires went flat
760 - new passport
450 - student union fees
941 - for the books I've bought so far... Course literature is expensive!
175 - Cable startup fee
400 - IKEA trip to get places to put my stuff in David's room.
And that doesn't even include food, bus fares, train fares, occasional alcohol money, or much of anything fun. Living sure is expensive even when you mostly just study and try to get important things done! I've gone through 869.76 USD since I've arrived in Sweden. That's 6262 SEK at the rate of 7.2 SEK per USD. That's a LOT Of money to have spent in such a short time! And that doesn't include the money I owe David for rent/phone/cable/etc. He's being nice enough to pay them until I get my bank account working. BAH!
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"And that doesn't even include food, bus fares, train fares, occasional alcohol money, or much of anything fun."
Actually, I think you mentioned food :)
fun food! Like going out to eat!
Problem is trying to get it in with the major amounts of schoolwork I have in this last year. I have 3 papers to write in the next 2 months and I have a 40-70 page reasearch paper to write, research, and present in June sometime. EEK! If I do work, it'll likely be back at student nations for 20-30 SEK/hour. :(
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