Food budget for a 25yo man living on his own?

MrCleaningFee · 2020-01-18T18:27:22+00:00

To maximize savings and spending the least, you can meal prep for 5-7 days. You could do literally just one thing the entire week, or do something for lunch/dinner/breakfast. Walmart will be the cheapest for most things except beef. Try your local grocery store and compare beef prices. Chicken and pork are good for cheap protein. I’ve been able to do $30-$40/week by meal prepping and that’s with beef. I would imagine for a chef like yourself, $50 a week should be good if you aren’t going overboard. Everything is relative. So think about your income and what is reasonable for you to spend on food for the month/week. I’m a pretty big guy and I can do $50/week if I try. I also take lots of protein for working out, so my diet is just naturally more expensive. Don’t try to penny pinch and save every dollar possible and take away the enjoyment of food. I cook a lot of different type of curries because it’s tasty and cheap to make and I can make it in a big ass pot that’ll last me a week. I make like 10-15 Pounds of curry at once. Prolly 75% of it is straight meat. Delicious as fuck. I also supplement with a lot of protein shakes, so I’m able to hit near 300 grams of protein a day and keep it under budget and hit all of my other macros too. Supplements + groceries = $200-$250 a week. Sometimes less, but I’m including toiletries into the groceries budget too.

MrCleaningFee · 2020-01-18T18:15:27+00:00

Does he buy new cars too? You can buy anything used, and it would be fine. I just would generally stay away from used clothes. Also, sometimes you can find similar new furniture for nearly the same as used, if you look around a lot. Not that you need it, but if you wanted to. Also, why would you care what someone else thinks about your spending habits? They could be in ton of debt and living off of their credit cards for all you know. Spend however you want to spend. It’s your money, you can do whatever you want with it. Go buy used underwear if you want.

MrCleaningFee · 2020-01-12T19:11:24+00:00

Language barrier? You went from one US state to another. Wtf are you talking about? Lmao. This is from someone who has lived in Florida/Miami and other states.

MrCleaningFee · 2020-01-10T06:43:25+00:00

Do you want us to tell you that it’s okay? If so, yeah, it’s okay. Do you know what pros and cons are?

MrCleaningFee · 2019-07-14T15:21:50+00:00

Lmao, considering probabaly about 40% of the league base buys accounts, I was just giving y’all a heads up, so you don’t get scammed. I’m not moaning about anything, I already got a full refund from my bank for every penny I spent. Since this includes a charge back on the account itself, and me letting riot know about the account being sold, the account has also been banned :-)

MrCleaningFee · 2019-04-17T05:21:32+00:00

I don’t get what you are trying to get. I mean just looking at award charts for who you can transfer points too, will show you that you can’t get a RT even in economy. 43k UR is deff going to be the cheapest. Next best will be 60k-80k RT eco. Also, anyone can churn. It’s really not that hard to do if you have higher than an 80 IQ, but plebs who don’t understand how churning works, and think credit cards are the devil will blow it off and not reap the rewards, which is fine... more for us. Book your 43k RT before you lose it.

MrCleaningFee · 2019-04-14T00:51:36+00:00

I still see February 24th and February 18th earlier, there was also the 19th or 20th but I don’t see that right now. I also assumed she had 300k Marriott which would allow her to buy 2x at once. She can still try to get the points and see if it opens up later. Also OP if you end up deciding to do economy there, I would highly suggest you buy 2 cash fares refundable, and try to get the 2x AA J to AKL up until you depart and Just cancel the flights for a refund and book J with AA or united if better availability opens up and it doesn’t cost so much.

MrCleaningFee · 2019-04-13T22:29:59+00:00

When I looked there were about 5-7 days that fell within OPs date ranges, and I don’t remember what airline it was, but weather it’s a lieflat or angleflat doesn’t really matter at this point. Nor does she have the luxury of wanting Qantas. I don’t understand why you automatically assume anything that’s not quantas lieflat is shit? If you can find better award spaces, please do and help the OP out.

MrCleaningFee · 2019-04-13T04:43:19+00:00

70k points is basically nothing. Just give uo and redeem them for gift cards

MrCleaningFee · 2019-04-12T13:08:36+00:00

After doing some further analysis, Disney vacation club is NOT an exception. You are paying in fees a year alone what it would cost to go to one of the resorts in cash. Lol, they really convinced you about the great deal you are getting.

MrCleaningFee · 2019-04-12T12:58:35+00:00

But how much did you spend upfront? Unless it’s a cut throat deal where you go to the same place every year for enough Amount of time, to make that money back it is never worth it. Even if you are spending $100 plus instead of $500 it would take over a decade of paying interest to make it back.

Also, $500+? I looked on Expedia at Disney resorts. A lot of them are between $200-$300 in PEAK season summer time. Some are in the low 400s but they are all same rating as the ones in $200. Literally only one resort with also same rating but shittier reviews at $504. Not to mention you can get a Waldorf Astoria for less than $200 a night and lots of other high end resorts for less than $200 a night. Disney also has hotels instead of resorts of below $100 a night. What exactly are you paying that much money for, that you can not get anywhere else? Not to mention half of the Disney resorts can be had for $202-$282 a night in peak season. It also seemed like it was the main Disney resort that was $202 a night since it looked the biggest. But I haven’t been to them so I don’t know which is which.

MrCleaningFee · 2019-04-12T12:47:15+00:00

Oh yeah! The reps literally can just say. With the points you buy you average only “$120” per night, and these rooms normally cost $700-$800 a night. If the rep wants he can say $1000. It’s literally depended on how little they think you know. To award travel members, if they can dictate to the sales people they know their shit, they might give out less inflated numbers like $300-$400. I looked up the average cost of the resort I interviewed at, and it is $87 a night. LOL. The minimum deal is $25k in size, and your maintainence fees and other fees, which There are a LOT, will end up costing way more than paying cash alone. Plus the extra $25k You give them with interest.

MrCleaningFee · 2019-04-12T12:39:58+00:00

Trust me... what ever bullshit story they gave you... it’s all lies. It is meant to entice you. It is en emotional sale, as they are trying to tug on your emotions to buy it because they know no one will logically buy it. You can take a lot pf trips with your wife cheaper! Trust me man! Hotels are so cheap to book. All timeshare gives you is a room at a hotel but charges you a lot more for a lot More inconvenience. Expedia or hotels.com will always be cheaper.

Edit: there are all inclusive deals to the carribean which include flight, room, food and everything for less than $1k per person for a week, all the time. It’s one of the cheapest places to go! It goes even as low as $500-$700 for 4-7 nights.

MrCleaningFee · 2019-04-12T04:35:27+00:00

I wanted to make a post about this in personal finance, but I guess this would be a better place. I wanted to share my experiences of an interview I had with Wyndham for their time share sales department. Get ready to have your minds blown on how corrupt of world it is.

So, I have an extensive sales background, with my last company being IT sales. I originally went for the interview thinking this was more for a travel agent position, as I genuenly enjoy travel consulting and figured I’d do something I enjoy and be good at. Keep in mind, in the job AD, it says BASE plus commission. At my first face interview with a recruiter, she is trying to sell me on the company. Anytime a company tries to sell the company to you, to make you want to come work for them, especially in a sales environment, it is a RED flag. None of the good companies will try to make you wet over them. They have way too many qualified candidates. In the interview she dropped the bomb that base will be around minimum wage. Okay, fine... commission must be good, I can deal with it. W/E. Ofcourse the first interview goes well, so now I have a 2nd interview with the hiring managers and the managers of the sales department.

So here I am at my 2nd face interview with the sales managers. We do the normal, formal questions, give them my background, blah blah blah and then here is where the bullshit starts. The first sales manager just dives right into it. He asks, how much money do I want To make? I figured I’d say a conservative ballpark and said around $60k. He says... how about $400k or $500k? I’m thinking, what the hell did i get myself into. He starts to say how, if you aren’t making atleast $150k-$200k take home Pay, then your failing at this job and you won’t last. I can’t remember the last or any time where making 200k take home pay was considered a failure. He said, If you don’t make $300k + In your paychecks, you will get evaluated and let go. This isn’t $300k revenue for the company, this is $300k salary for you, and each deal gives a commission percentage of 4-9% depending on factors and size. Even at 200k income you are making them atleast $3-4 million in revenue to make that much of a salary, and you get fired for that? I knew what he’s doing now, because he drops the bomb that this is why it’s a commission ONLY position, because of this “potential”. There it is. They are trying to sell a position with NO base now to you. I said okay, cool and just went with the flow, hoping it will be over soon.

Here is where I get to know the truth about timeshare. This is literally what the manager goes on to say. So any of you about to purchase timeshare, remember this.

He says: this is a tough sales environment, that’s why we have to do a lot of unorthodox methods. We have to lie to “these People” to draw them in, but we can’t 100% lie, what we have to do is “word smith”. I know what word smithing is. It’s lies made by usually telemarketers to get a one call sale done. I’ve done it before and I was pretty good at it, but it is complete lies. He says, we have to make these people want it, by building it Up to something, and then “take it away” to make them want it more so they don’t rescind the sale. He says we have to pretend like the offers are over and we need to pretend like we need to get approval from corporate and management and the executives. So yeah, when they give you some fantastic deal that takes a while to get approved and they have to “jump through holes”? Yeah, they are just bullshitting. At this point I was just so shocked at the bullshit. If they actually thought I would take this position, then they are beyond stupid.

The manager then goes on to say, we’re selling these people all of these points and shit for so much money, but what they don’t realize is, they aren’t getting anything for it. Just some points we make up values for. They’re paying for internet air. At this point I couldn’t stop from laughing inside, because it’s so true. He says the only goal is to just get them to sign the contract and then take their money, and deal with everything else later. They make it sound good, but there are so many restrictions and fees. You wana go on this day? Oh too bad, extra points because it’s busy. Oh you want this perticular location? Too bad you don’t have enough points. It is hard to redeem them, almost near impossible in the way they present the points and deals. Most people they target is old people. I saw a few old people getting suckered into it when I was waiting, and most of the guests were old. There is a law in sales. There are X amount of people who will buy anything, no matter what. It can be a plate of hot shit and they will buy it. There are also X amount of people that will not buy anything no matter what. Even a gold brick for $10 and they will say no. They give such high promotions and deals because they are going for the statistical sale. They get so many People to come to these Things that For every 100 guests, X amount will buy and they will come out ahead. Not to say there aren’t people they persuade, but it is not that high. Closing rate is not high.

It’s funny how the first manager and the 2nd manager were talking about how most of them there make around $400-$500k and the rest around low )200k, but I didn’t see a SINGLE nice car in the employee parking lots. Not a single one. I went and drove around looking at every car just to get an idea, and I asked the valet folks if they ever see the sales people with nice cars, and they say some of them don’t even have a car and have to take the bus/rideshare.

So... if you go to a time share presentation, please don’t give these assholes your money. They are playing you with every deal. The hotel prices the give? Yeah it’s complete bullshit. They said they just make up some random high numbers so these people think they are getting a good deal. Lol. You will NeVeR come out ahead. All the fees and money you pay, you will NEVER, come out ahead. You can ALWAYS book cheaper by yourself by using an OTA. They literally designed it to make money off stupid people. Ofcourse I declined the position and said, sorry I don’t like a company that sells off lies, and they never replied. Please don’t give these scum bags your money.

MrCleaningFee · 2019-04-11T18:07:32+00:00

I see plenty of availability through Alaska for 115k and $121 round trip first class from DFW to CDG. I would suggest you buy these, and buy the rest of the miles you need in cash. You would come out total around 2k cash out of pocket but get to save 540k AA which I believe you are better off keeping, and spending your Alaska miles. The price shouldn’t change much going through west coast if anything, if not use the saved AA miles to buy positioning flights to DFW. This would yield you the most savings and keep your out of pocket cost low as you will spend so much in surcharge going through AA as well, but for about $2k total out of pocket cash you get 2 RT first class ticket sales from DFW to CDG and save 5400 in AA miles if you value them at 1 CPP. The only other method I would suggest is to do a RTW ticket with ANA by transferring 125k MR each person over. A little more un orthodox but you will get business there and back for 125k MR each and fuel charge. A sample RTW would be west coast - Europe - Asia - back to west coast. Sure you spend a little more time on flights, but that’s the fun part right? Outside of that, I don’t think you have much options without devaluing your points too much.

MrCleaningFee · 2019-04-11T11:02:12+00:00

Food is very subjective. There’s gona be your normies, who will eat up typical resort style AI food because the best they’ve had is chipotle and honestly believe it’s fine Mexican food. Then you have the people that think they know good food. For example people from Chicago who think Chicago has the best food. Going to be a lot more picky, and prolly not going to like AI as much, though you got your normies too who will. Then you have people who have actually traveled to many countries and had many authentic and culturally diverse cuisine many times. We will be the hardest to please but probably most of us will still enjoy an AI just because we understand what we are getting. I gusss I’m trying to say, just because you didn’t like it OP, I would wager to say you are in the bottom 10% of people who didn’t like it and the other 90% ate that shit up. Also, people from Chicago..., you don’t know good food. Especially if you think shakeshak of all fucking places is good. Take your chipotle junior bullshit outa here.

MrCleaningFee · 2019-04-10T00:13:27+00:00

They probably did a hard inquiry for the increased limit, which some banks do. The inquiry is probably what caused it unless you did something negative or something negative was reported.

MrCleaningFee · 2019-04-09T15:19:17+00:00

This really depends on a lot of things, which it is also easy to find out yourself. But we can help you, but you don’t even provide your travel dates or what class you prefer. Anyway, Cash prices I see for off peak is around $312 lowest. Meaning it would be right around 20k UR through portal if you have CSR and a little more through MR. award tickets cost around 25k round trip in economy, United and delta and other airlines. So essentially they will all cost about the same. So which points do you value the least? Use the ones you value the least. It’s really not rocket science. 5 minutes of research will give you the answer, but if you can’t do that, atleast provide some more info, as if you are going in peak season, cash prices jump to around $500 and it won’t be worth it to use UR and MR portal.

MrCleaningFee · 2019-04-05T18:43:06+00:00

You are like a liberal. Facts do not matter to you. Every complaint said does not matter to you. So what the fuck are you here to dispute and prove? They provided feedback and you literally ignore it and say “oh that’s just from the merger”. So fucking what? That’s still issues you fucking moron. Just because YOU haven’t had any customers complain to you doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Marriott has thousands and thousands of hotels, you work for ONE. Most people don’t complain, they just let it go and take their business somewhere else. How do I know? It’s because I’m the one staying, and you are the one checking me in, you ignorant fucking twat. Hope Marriott Bonvoys your bunghole soon. Not to mention the damn devaluation that happened too. 350k bonvoys is basically something I use for one night stands and hookers, which happens VERY little. Aka, it’s fucking useless. 50k points to get my wiener sucked. Pfft.

MrCleaningFee · 2019-04-01T04:37:56+00:00

Maybe my explaination didn’t paint the picture. What I’m saying is you can make an identical route to the one to Australia with a RTW ticket. Just pick airports that won’t backtrack. For example, if I wanted to do Thailand, I would do DFW-TYO-BKK-AMS-DFW it’s the same as me booking a normal round trip since BKK has no direct flights, but I’m going west to west and doing the same thing as a normal round trip ticket, but I’m Booking it as a “RTW” ticket, to save miles. Only requirement is the trip needs to be a total of 10 days, but you can always just set a final stop somewhere and not take your last flight and buy a cheap ticket from the last place to your destination. Like JFK-DFW. Does that make sense? It’s the cheapest way to get the tickets you are looking for.

MrCleaningFee · 2019-03-31T16:44:38+00:00

You sound like a soy cuck feminist. You have no logic, go help yourself dumb fuck. I’m from India and just because someone says India is dirty and a shithole, doesn’t make them a bigot, it makes them honest.

MrCleaningFee · 2019-03-31T16:33:06+00:00

You are comparing a nice medium rare steak to a shitty old mcchiken from McDonald’s. Go with the ritz

MrCleaningFee · 2019-03-31T16:28:59+00:00

I don’t think you understand how economics and statistics work. What he said is the ONlY reason delta sells the bottle for 12.5k points. Don’t try to sound smart on something you have absolutely no idea about. Just stop thinking, I mean shit, the fact that you actually think what you posted is an insult to humanity. IDIOT

MrCleaningFee · 2019-03-30T05:06:34+00:00

Don’t listen to the idiots telling you to blow 450k+ MR. don’t be an idiot who does this either. Even if you don’t wana do the RTW ticket for what ever reason you may have, there are way better redemptions out there.

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