Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Cost Cutting

Like most of my friends I too find myself broke by the end of every month. With most of the salary gone on paying off loans, rent, and food (I eat out). And after spending most of what is left on Eating out (on a grander scale), shopping, movies and having the weekly quota of beer, I end up with not much of a balance in my bank account by the end of the month.

Some months back, I was talking abut this with my roomie – Shenoy, we decided that the loans, and rent are things that we can’t do much about, so the only thing that was left was the food and other expenses. We decided to introduce drastic cost cutting schemes. We started with movies, It costs 130/- to watch a movie in PVR on a weekend, and 100/- on a weekday after 1 Pm. But it costs only 50/- to watch a movie if the show is before 1. so we decided that we will only watch movies before 1 on weekdays. I get days off on every alternate Thursdays and Fridays. So for the past one or 2 months we have been regulars in PVR on alternate Thursdays (saving 50 – 80 per movie depending on when we would have seen it otherwise). The other cost cutting plan was with out daily expenditure on food. We eat out daily and we are both Non-veggies, the plan was to cut down on the non-veg food, buy only half plate of chicken, fish or beef when we want to have non-veg.

The schemes looked all good when we started off. But by the end on the month, we realized we broke again; and that too with a week to spare!! Where the hell did we go wrong?

We used to watch movies once in a month or 2 in PVR or in some local theater, but now we watch movies every alternate Thursdays, movies means the accompanying snacks and drinks, and at PVR it costs us more than the amount needed to get by for a couple of days at out local mess. And with the introduction of the half-plate policy we have become very devoted non-vegetarians, instead of the thrice a week non-veg menu, it is a 7 day a week non veg menu now.

So much for cost cutting!

3 Comments:

Blogger Dinesh Babuji said...

Yeah, sure that was some cost cutting! Let me come back and we shall work out financial matters about cost cutting.

2:23 AM  
Blogger Nisha said...

Apart from all that...how can you forget abt ur COMIC craze????? :D

1:34 AM  
Blogger Varkey said...

@ din ... U millionair ...u can lend us some money

@ Icy thanks for reminding me :-D, i wasnt able to find any comics for the last couple of months ... am planning to start collecting some for my mom ... sh said she wanted archies !!

2:44 AM  

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