today, i went to "arisan" with my basketball friends from Trisakti University.. I spent like 100rb for the arisan, and payed another 100rb to back-up my sister's part.. then, I spent more than 200rb for the lunch (chicken noodle & strawberry juice for aisha, bbq chicken & water for me, fish & chips & greensands for my husband).. the arisan & lunch was took place at Urban Kitchen, 5th floor @ Pacific Place, a nice =somekind of= food court where they gave you a card (you can not loose it or you have to pay 300rb!), then the foodstand will swipe the card when you ordered your foods, then they have a bar where you can order your drinks.. you can go out from urban kitchen for a while to take some money from ATM (to pay for arisan, for example, 'coz I forgot to get some cash before the arisan), but there has to be someone stay inside the urban kitchen -to make sure that you will pay your bills-.. the place was great, pacific place has a nice restaurants section in 4th and 5th floor.. 4th floor is where the boat is (I heard someone said that to the lift-guy..), and 5th floor is where you still can see the small fountains below but becareful with your little one..
From arisan at pacific place, we moved to Plaza Senayan to met my brother in law with his gf.. we planned to play bowling there.. but when we got there, he has not arrive yet.. so I was craving with ice cream then we went to Hagendaz, we ordered chocolate brownies (8 pcs of small brownies) with chocolate fudge and chocolate ice cream & choc choc chip ice cream.. we waited the ice cream for about 15 minutes.. and we finished the ice cream for not more than 10 minutes.. (blamed my husband, he always took a big chunk of the ice cream!).. it wasn't enough for me, so I ordered one scoop of belgian chocolate to go... 95rb (62rb for the brownies ice cream, and 28rb for one scoop.. plus tax...)
Then we went to bowling place, and book a 50 minutes game that cost 198rb.. 5 of us played like 1 hour (aisha also played too..)
It was like 7-ish when we finished.. dinner time!! Aisha wanted noodles again.. so GM was my choice.. although when we walked to GM, I met my friend and told me that GM was very full and he told me to go to foodcourt.. but foodcourt also full and hot too..
So we want to take a look first at GM.. and hey... it was not that full.. we only waited for 5 minutes to get seated.. then we ordered noodles.. by the way, dont forget to bring cash to GM... they only accept cash, and if you have debit card, you have to order more than 200rb.. There I was.. calculated how much money I had in my wallet.. the waiter took our order and repeat it, then he told me.. 126rb.. hehe.. I had 50rb, my husband 50rb, and then my brother in law with his gf add 30rb..
Not finishing her food, Aisha got a little bit jumpy.. She never wants stay still when taking her meals.. I guess that's because I never make her use to it in the house.. So I took her to go to get some groceries in hero (just across the GM) and she also remind me to buy her milk.. "susunya aisha udah abis ya bu..."
I bought some apples for my breakfast juice (promo price), then some eggs to make some brownies, then chocolate cooking, and flour, and strainer like the one I saw in my cooking book, spatulas, egg beater, candies, ponds clean & shake, sand toys, birthday hats, coca cola zero, nyam-nyam, then... sustagen chocolate and vanilla.. (this is why shopping list is very important!!!!).. I spent more than 500rb for the groceries, payed by credit card which still has overdue credit from previous months.. hmm....
Really.. I know that we need to organize our spending, but.. I dont know... it was kind of hard to be rupiahwise..
The only answer to my problem is : Discipline..
My dilemmas :
1. not every weekend we went out like this..... me+my husband+my daughter.. so I want to get loose a little bit (get loose to spend 1 mil rupiah in a day??!)... yeah.. I admit not a little bit...
2. cashflows distraction -> hopefully I can manage to reduce some spending for the next 3 weeks...
One more thing.. do not get tempted by the discounts and sale during Jakarta's anniversary... It's in June & July!! Where you have to save your money for your child's education.. no bonuses given in June or July (in my company), not even THR yet...
Well... the bottom line is.. it doesn't matter how much money you made if you dont have smart spending fund.. they gone like the wind!! fast and almost no trace at all (except when you received your credit card bills....)
2 comments:
Hehehehe ... pusinglah kalau ditanya pengeluaran hari ini berapa? Nggak berasaaaaa, tahu2 tagihan kartu kredit datang dan kok banyak banget ya?! :)) Apalagi sekarang belanja bulanan semakin mahal ... huhuhuhu :P
Kalau memang pengen standard hidup naik, atau minimal tidak berubah ... ya solusinya memang harus cari penghasilan tambahan sepertinya ;) Jadi bisa tetap enjoy belanja-belanja ... *teorinya sih gitu ... prakteknya, berat juga huahahahaha ...*
Cari penghasilan tambahan kan berarti menambah jam kerja juga, ngurangin waktu bersama keluarga ... duh, dilema juga :P
Mending ikutan disiplin aja deh :))
lucu kadang-kadang ya.. kita disuruh hemat di perusahaan tempat kita kerja, tapi penghematan itu ga diterapkan di rumah.. :D susaaaahh.. we just wanna be FREE.. free from debts.. hhehehehe..
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