while employed i spend very recklessly - ordering delivery instead of cooking, going out a lot and paying for my friends' drinks and rides, etc. - meal prepping, as i do now, saves me hundreds per week.
also i generally insist on paying my way in relationships, sometimes even covering the majority of the costs. for example, i fully supported a manchild for 2.5 years who it turned out was lying to me about applying to jobs because he just wanted me to take care of him.
'money' is kind of like a unit of exchange for experience, which is most valuable when you are younger. if you played the game some other way (abstemious living in youth in exchange for a more comfortable retirement), you actually fucked up beyond description. but i'll be gentle and won't go into details on this.
i rent and have no Assets. but i agree it's not too bad, and not great either. the part he SHOULD be mocking me for is my failure to get a Job since i was laid off seven months ago imo.
i've been unemployed since April, was making $182k at my last job
not sure what that means but almost certainly. i'm horrible at saving. right out of college i was making $72k and spending it all having a blast, and as i earned more and more, my spending just expanded to fill the space lol.
rent is $2200 plus a $400/mo rehearsal studio lockout so i can practice music loudly at any time of day
yeah blowing through savings especially since even though i'm mostly cooking now, i still get lazy and order food sometimes, and i always cover my bf's food too if we're together, which we usually are. ordering food for both of us can be like $60 for one meal lol. i do get $450/wk unemployment since August (should've applied at the beginning but thought i'd get a job quickly) which is 180 and on good weeks that's more than enough for all my living expenses but often other stuff comes up too.