Pay 800-ish a month in rent for one room in a shared house.
Pay a few hundred a month for a PA to help me with tasks like laundry and packaging supplements.
Walk to and from work, am happy to use ubers when I travel farther afield.
Eat almost exclusively at the office, and generally buy simple groceries that require minimal prep rather than eating out.
If I think something might make me more effective, and it costs less than ~150, I buy it and try it out, and give it away if it doesn’t work out. (Things like “kneeling chair”, “lifting shoes”, “heart rate monitor”, “backpack that’s better for running in”, “shirt that might fit me”, “heavy duty mask and filters”, “textbooks”, “bluetooth headphones”, “extra chargers”.)
I currently save (and invest) something like 90% of my income. Though my my income has changed a lot in different years. When I’m working a lot less on paid projects, and don’t have a salary, I make less money, and only save like 20% to 40%.
However, I’m semi-infamously indifferent to fun (and to most forms of physical pleasure), and I spend almost all my time working or studying. So my situation probably doesn’t generalize to most people.
I also live in the Bay area, and live similarly.
Pay 800-ish a month in rent for one room in a shared house.
Pay a few hundred a month for a PA to help me with tasks like laundry and packaging supplements.
Walk to and from work, am happy to use ubers when I travel farther afield.
Eat almost exclusively at the office, and generally buy simple groceries that require minimal prep rather than eating out.
If I think something might make me more effective, and it costs less than ~150, I buy it and try it out, and give it away if it doesn’t work out. (Things like “kneeling chair”, “lifting shoes”, “heart rate monitor”, “backpack that’s better for running in”, “shirt that might fit me”, “heavy duty mask and filters”, “textbooks”, “bluetooth headphones”, “extra chargers”.)
I currently save (and invest) something like 90% of my income. Though my my income has changed a lot in different years. When I’m working a lot less on paid projects, and don’t have a salary, I make less money, and only save like 20% to 40%.
However, I’m semi-infamously indifferent to fun (and to most forms of physical pleasure), and I spend almost all my time working or studying. So my situation probably doesn’t generalize to most people.