5 Days Of Living On A $50 Budget | Try Living with Lucie | Refinery29

Are you more of a pro-budget person or a NO-budget person? This week, we gave Lucie Fink a $50 bill and then left her to do her thing - follow along as she discovers what it really means to be on a spending budget.

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Literally make your coffee at home and bring it to work in a flask. $4 on a cup of coffee? Seriously?

[ZoftigBeauty]

By your own coffee will same you a lot more money. shredding the chicken and adding different flavors would have changed up for your taste buds. Instead of kidney beans you could have gotten chick peas and made hummus and falafel. Also making overnight oatmeal would assure you would not miss this meal. And a decent splurge would be getting coffee from a deli or small shop for $1.50 not $4.50.

[lilitincher]

Just think of it like:
Starbucks=$5.00 bucks
Dark Roast Walmart Coffee=$3.98 for 1lb

[Aesthetic-zwyo]

1:34 "I even cooked my dinner"







*wow do u need a medal*

[mausstheman]

$50 a week? HAHA! That’s What i call a good week.

[emilylouise]

Your deoderant broke? PUT THE THING, BACK IN THE TUBE. ITS STILL USEABLE.

[nukerathomas]

Girl you should of went and find a dollar tree out there buy things for a 1$

[amber-ikls]

also the fact she chose expensive options even when she was in a budget kinda made me feel a bit upset. So a $50 dollar budget and she spent her last FOUR DOLLARS on starbucks and gave the homeless woman a few cents :/

what im trying to say is she had first world problems even with a budget. like

canned beans?

dishwasher pods?

Starbucks coffee?

also a lot of people can easily budget that. Hell, $50 is more of a blessing than a budget. I could order food every day.

[dylanakent]

You can make your own coffee and do your own dishes to start.

[aleksandrapartaloska]

$400 on food with your partner?! Come on!!!

[whokalk]

She could have just eaten 1 pizza for 5 days to save more money

[sanyalely]

"Dish washer pods are expensive!" You can wash your own dishes can't you?

[julietadiaz]

Dishwasher pods are like nine dollars. Umm wash your dishes in the sink

[YourBuddyDidi]

$200 a week for dinner??! Does she go to restaurants every single night?

[vkskyor]

“Only $50 for 5 days”...

Literally someone did $1 for a week.



Oml

[grrrorillaglue]

You didn't NEED coffee you WANTED coffee

[desiraealvarez]

Wow. My mom was able to feed her 3 children breakfast and dinner everyday (ate lunch at school) with $30 a week. I don't know how she spent $200 on food. (I live in the u.s.)

[YoukoMyv]

Why buy peeled garlic and expensive oatmeal when you can get a bunch of whole garlic, store brand oatmeal, etc. Aren't there like Chinatown produce markets in NYC? Buy veggies there. Buy a big bag of beans, look for dollar stores that have food. Buy chicken drumsticks on sale and freeze what you don't need just yet. If you have unlimited transportation, go the extra mile to save a lot on your food, explore on your day off to find better grocery stores, and buy what spoils quickly closer to where you live.

[canuck]

1. Put the deodorant 👏 back in the tube
2. Make your own coffee at home
3. You bought an entire pizza, save it for the whole week

*_girl, you are one spoiled woman_*

[sarah-mjtw]

This is dumb $50 is a lot. Its not a challenge you're just used to privilege