my dollars are ablaze

Posted by Taizen Chisou on Sept. 5, 2012, 4:36 p.m.

~Taizen Chisou's Expenses For The Month of August~

$ 105 - Replacement radiator for a 13 year old car with 231k miles

$ 195 - A shiny piece of plastic that magically waives all parking fees at my university, except for

$ 40 - parking tickets, because the first space on the ramp on the commuter floor still registers as faculty parking

$ 141 - Constantly going to lunch with friends harboring expensive tastes, although this IS to avert having to eat school food

$ 261 - A college textbook containing maths i don't understand

$ 119 - A college textbook filled to the brim with pretty pictures of naked people that we'll have to memorize sooner or later

$ 81 - GASOLINE THAT MUST CONTAIN GOLD OR OTHER RARE MATERIALS

$ 38 - Parking in the conveniently expensive building that is next to most of my classes, because that aforementioned parking pass got left in my mother's truck for a while

$ 10 - Parking decals for my high school, two for some reason

$ 257 - Apparently money that fell into the abyss because transferring my paycheck from my work card caused this balance to appear on it

The fact that I'm not in the red confounds me.

I was going to tack on the eventual donations to Hel ($40) and the first half of my S4D contribution ($63, second half 19 Sep.), but it's not August anymore.

Comments

marbs 12 years, 3 months ago

Just for comparison, it is about £1.40 / litre here, which works out at about $8.40 USD / gallon.

I am well aware, though, that people in the US and Canada need to drive a lot further than here in the UK.

Taizen Chisou 12 years, 3 months ago

(Damn. I forgot that I STILL have class today. 13 more miles today, wooo! I'll have to refill by next week at this rate.)

firestormx 12 years, 3 months ago

At first I was like "$1.40/litre doesn't come out to $8.40/gallon, you fucking cow", but then I noticed I read the wrong currency.

I'm not angry, Kilin, go drink your oil.

marbs 12 years, 3 months ago

For the record, I just typed "1.40 GBP per litre in USD per gallon" into google.

Totally not lazy; just efficient.

Taizen Chisou 12 years, 3 months ago

Oh hurr. I only counted gas that went into my Solara.

If you add the gas that my mother wouldn't stop hounding me about* then it's closer to $130.

*"DID YOU ADD GAS TO MY TRUCK? WHY NOT? DID YOU EMPTY IT OUT? YOU'RE USING MY GAS, I EXPECT YOU TO PAY ME BACK."

Rob 12 years, 3 months ago

Quote:

$ 105 - Replacement radiator for a 13 year old car with 231k miles

$ 195 - A shiny piece of plastic that magically waives all parking fees at my university, except for

$ 40 - parking tickets, because the first space on the ramp on the commuter floor still registers as faculty parking

$ 81 - GASOLINE THAT MUST CONTAIN GOLD OR OTHER RARE MATERIALS

$ 38 - Parking in the conveniently expensive building that is next to most of my classes, because that aforementioned parking pass got left in my mother's truck for a while

$ 10 - Parking decals for my high school, two for some reason

This is why I take the fucking bus.

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$ 261 - A college textbook containing maths i don't understand

$ 119 - A college textbook filled to the brim with pretty pictures of naked people that we'll have to memorize sooner or later

And why I don't buy textbooks.

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$ 141 - Constantly going to lunch with friends harboring expensive tastes, although this IS to avert having to eat school food

And why I only eat food I cook at home. Christ, that's as much as or more than what I spend on all food in a month. Even shitty school food's a bit too expensive.

Rolf_Soldaat 12 years, 3 months ago

Oh boo-hoo, Americans whining about gas prices.

Even your most expensive gas is about half the price of the cheapest gas in the Netherlands.

(no really, I just calculated it.)

Astryl 12 years, 3 months ago

That applies to South Africa too, even taking the relative average salaries and whatnot.

Eva unit-01 12 years, 3 months ago

This is what makes living in the middle of the city so awesome. I just skate everywhere, don't even need a car, shiiiiet.

Gift of Death 12 years, 3 months ago

You're talking about gas prices?

In Finland they'd be around 8.85$/gallon of gasoline or 6.93$/gallon of diesel.

Tho, I've heard it's even worse in Norway tho they pump their own oil. We have it shipped here.