Where it all goes, a spent journal

a young woman's year-long journal of the money she spends.

Friday, March 31, 2006

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Coffee Settepani Bakery .75
Pete's Candy Store $10.00

Besides for swinging by Pete's Candy Store for a night cap, feel free to guess what else I may have done, or could be totally making up, on Thursday, March 30th:

A. Ate 2 Burgers from 2 different places
B. Had a cocktail at the Soho House
C. Read various sections of this weeks New York Magazine
D. worked
E. All of the above

Thursday, March 30, 2006


Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

Coffee Settepani Bakery .75
City Bakery (Tip for latte) $1.00
Cheeks Bakery(2 cupcakes) $3.50
Sunac Food Market $11.49 (stuff for dinner)

Sometimes I feel as if this blog should have been a part of the original blogging idea, "the sweetsavory" (an unsuccessful blogging attempt...a review site of sorts, talk of cupcake shops, NYC snacks, and new discoveries in the area of delicassy, well, basically my daily life here in New York. So I turned the fridge temp at the apartment up, because the Brita container was filled with frozen water. In doing that I ruined a leg-o-lamb that my roommate was trying to preserve to be an edible piece of meat, and I contributed to making it no longer edible. On my walk home from the train I discovered yet, another new cupcake shop, just what New York needs, more cupcakes! Cheeks Bakery, on Metropolitan Avenue, nestled between some cute vintage clothing store and near the BQE. I thought a cupcake would do the trick for ruining a leg-o-lamb. Well, it didn't, and if this were a cupcake review, the stars would not be 5 but maybe 2, we didn't like the cupcake we tried at all, i won't give up all the way on Cheeks, because the red velvet cake they had on display looked really promising, worth a shot. We'll see...(note, these cupcakes i'm showing are not from the bakery, Cheeks cupckaes were very perfect aesthetically, much better looking than these, but, deceiving).

Wednesday, March 29, 2006


Coffee Settepani Bakery .75
Frank $32.00
ATM fee (bodega on 2nd Ave)$1.75

MOZZERELA di BUFFALA baby! What a great last dinner in NYC to share with my biggest culinary connoisseur of a friend, and the little chef herself, Rachel...Money all well spent, with no regrets, because there is no better way to say goodbye then to share a fantastic meal together. She is en route to the city of Chicago as I write this!! Frank is the place to go have dinner early, if you're not there by 7pm, you're in for a wait. I suggest ordering off the specials, I had the spinach gnocchi, and tried a bit of the black spaghetti with calamari which was tasty...(I'm having leftovers for dinner tonight, see, I thought about my pocketbook, and my bulging stomach).
I got an e-mail last night from a friend in regards to ATM fees,like the ones I got from the bodgea on 2nd Avenue, and the hundreds of fees I've paid in the past and just threw mony out the window...He tells me about his bank, Compass Bank, if you bank at Compass they don't charge you at their ATM machines, pretty much rule of thumb with every bank, including my shitty bank, though Northfork Bank, seems to be popping up everywhere these days. Compass has a great little perk, if you squirrel away all of your receipts from the bodegas or other banks that are not yours, you can mail them into Compass, and they credit your account for those fees! Bad news is, no Compass Bank in NYC.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Monday, March 27th, 2006

Coffee (Deli on Smith St. ) .75
Cigs $7.80
Bagpiper (Union Square) $1.00

I gave the bagpiper a dollar, I think it was because he was playing the bagpipes. Doug played the bagpipes for a living for years, through his stories, I realize the importance, the beauty and the struggle of being a street musician. Yes, most of us drown out the natural sounds of the day with ipods or other mp3/music playing devices, but there is something to be said about waiting for the train and having a live perfomance right there for you, it feels special. Also, do you know how hard those things are to play? I tried to play them for nearly one second the other night and almost blew a blood vessel!

Monday, March 27, 2006

The Weekend Update:

Sunday March, 26th 2006


Coffee (Deli on Atlantic Ave.) .75
American Apparel (red boys briefs) $13.57

Saturday March 25th, 2006


Bran Muffin (McCarren Park) $1.50
bottled water .75
I Love Brooklyn Shirt for Rachel (split with Joelle) $15.00
Brunch at Robin Des Bois $19.00
Boerum Hill Food Company (tea & cake) $5.00
Jolie (2 glasses of wine) $20.00

Friday, March 24th, 2006


coffee (Deli on Smith) .75
Movie (Thank You For Smoking) $10.75
Popcorn $5.50
The Dove (3 glasses of wine) $30.00
Cab Home $15.00