Martin and I are engaging in some friendly competition in regard to our finances starting this month. In order to help motivate each other, we've decided to have a contest determining who can save the most (% wise) over the next 6 months. We'll check in at the end of each month to compare progress. It's a funny little game as the motivation behind it is that we both want to save money. We laugh at the friendly competition, the rivalary of it, but the truth is that it's just a way for us to be accountable to one another. We haven't even determined what the prize would be for the winner!
As we begin this, and as I've laid out my budget for the next 2 months, I'm frustrated at all the things I "have" to spend money on (and this does not include monthly costs and bills). I'm realizing that it's much more expensive to be a woman in today's society than it is to be a man. Not to get all "Hillary" on you (I wonder if that will be a term embraced by society moving forward, describing any time a woman defends her struggle of being a woman...), but my haircut will cost 10-100 times more than Martin's (depending on if he shaves his own head or pays someone $10 to do it!). Then there's mani/pedi's (I can hold off doing it once a month...but not much longer than that!), waxing, hair coloring, cost of beauty products (makeup, moisturizers, skin care products)...none of which Martin needs to worry about.
I'm not giving up hope that I can win this thing. But man, it's not cheap being a woman!
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