my (real) monthly expense | living alone in manila ୨୧˚✧
Summary
TLDRIn this lifestyle vlog, the content creator shares her monthly expenses of living alone in a city, covering rent, utilities, internet, subscriptions, groceries, pet care, and self-care. She emphasizes the importance of budgeting and offers insights into her cost-saving habits, such as conserving energy and opting for cold showers. The video also invites viewers to suggest topics for future podcasts, hinting at a potential new venture into audio content.
Takeaways
- 🏠 The video creator lives alone in a 36 sqm condo in an expensive city in the Philippines, with rent being the largest monthly expense at P34,000.
- 💡 Electricity costs fluctuate, averaging around P1,650.32, and may increase due to more time spent at home and higher usage.
- 💧 Water expenses are unknown but estimated to be around P200 per month, based on past experience and regional differences.
- 🌐 Internet expense is P1,699 per month for a 200 Mbps connection, essential for content creation, streaming, and gaming.
- 🎨 Subscription costs for Adobe Premiere Pro and Thematic amount to P1,146 and P506 per month, respectively, for video editing and background music.
- 🛒 Groceries are budgeted at around P3,500 per month, but the creator admits to occasionally eating out and treating themselves.
- 💧 The creator has started using large containers (carboys) for mineral water, with an initial cost of P1,250 and refills at P250 per set of five.
- 🚖 Monthly transportation expenses, primarily for Grab rides, are budgeted around P1,000 to P1,500, with a recent spend of P1,396.
- 🐶 Pet expenses include dog food, vitamins, diapers, pads, poop bags, treats, wipes, and grooming, totaling around P1,653 to P5, depending on the item.
- 💆 Self-care is important to the creator, with occasional lash extensions and regular facials, averaging P1,200 for lashes and P900 for facials.
- 📊 Total monthly expenses for 'Etc' category amount to P6,833.7, while 'Needs' expenses sum up to P45,600.68, making the grand total P52,589.
Q & A
What is the main topic of the video?
-The main topic of the video is the creator's monthly expenses while living alone in the city.
What was the creator's original content focus before shifting to lifestyle vlogs?
-The creator's original content focus was mainly on gaming.
How much does the creator pay for rent for their 36 sqm condo in the city?
-The creator pays P34,000 for rent every month.
What is the creator's monthly internet expense for a 200 Mbps connection?
-The creator's monthly internet expense is around 1699 pesos.
What are the creator's Adobe Premiere Pro and Thematic subscription costs per month?
-The Adobe Premiere Pro subscription costs 1,146 pesos, and the Thematic subscription, when divided into 12 months, is about 506 pesos per month.
What is the estimated monthly grocery expense for the creator?
-The creator estimates their monthly grocery expense to be around 3,500 pesos.
What is the initial cost for the creator to start getting mineral water delivered in large containers called carboys?
-The initial cost to start getting mineral water in carboys is 1,250 pesos.
How much does the creator typically spend on transportation using Grab per month?
-The creator typically spends around 1,500 pesos per month on Grab transportation, aiming not to exceed 1,000 pesos.
What are the creator's monthly expenses for dog food, vitamins, and other pet supplies for their two dogs?
-The creator spends approximately 1,653 pesos on dog food, around 400 pesos on vitamins, 403 pesos on diapers, 499 pesos on dog pads, 183 pesos on poop bags, and 1,199 pesos on dog treats per month.
What is the creator's total monthly expense for self-care, including lash extensions and facials?
-The creator's total monthly self-care expense is around 1,200 pesos for lash extensions and 900 pesos for facials, totaling 2,100 pesos.
What is the overall total monthly expense the creator calculated for living alone in the city?
-The overall total monthly expense the creator calculated is 52,589 pesos.
What lifestyle changes has the creator made to conserve energy and reduce expenses?
-The creator has made changes such as using air conditioning for a maximum of 6 hours a day and switching to using normal temperature water instead of hot water.
Does the creator consider starting a podcast based on the video's theme?
-Yes, the creator is considering starting a podcast and is open to ideas about the topics, such as life, red flags, or self-care and self-love.
Outlines
🏠 Monthly Expenses of Living Alone in the City
The video discusses the host's monthly expenses for living alone in a city, starting with the highest cost, rent, for a 36 sqm condo. The host emphasizes that these expenses are personal and may vary greatly depending on location and lifestyle. Other expenses covered include utilities like electricity and water, internet, software subscriptions for content creation, and grocery shopping. The host also mentions the importance of considering these costs for those planning to live alone.
💻 Subscriptions and Self-Care: The Cost of Creativity and Well-being
This paragraph delves into the host's subscriptions for Adobe Premiere Pro and Thematic for video editing and background music, as well as the monthly cost of groceries, which includes occasional eating out. The host also discusses self-care expenses such as mineral water, transportation, and pet care for their dogs, including food, vitamins, diapers, and other pet supplies. The paragraph highlights the balance between professional needs and personal well-being.
🐾 The Financial Commitment of Pet Ownership
The host shares the financial responsibilities of owning two dogs, including the costs of dog food, vitamins, diapers, pads, poop bags, treats, wipes, and grooming. The paragraph provides a detailed breakdown of these expenses and reflects on the joy and value that pets bring to the host's life, despite the costs involved.
💸 Self-Care and Personal Expenses: Investing in Oneself
The final paragraph focuses on the host's self-care routine, including lash extensions, nail care, and regular facials to manage acne-prone skin. It also touches on the host's efforts to budget and conserve energy and resources, such as using air conditioning sparingly and opting for cold water. The host concludes by sharing their total monthly expenses and their journey of learning to budget and be more aware of spending.
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Keywords
💡Monthly Expense
💡Lifestyle Vlogs
💡Rent
💡Utilities
💡Streaming
💡Subscription
💡Groceries
💡Transportation
💡Pet Care
💡Self-Care
💡Budgeting
Highlights
Introduction to the video discussing monthly expenses of living alone in the city.
The video creator used warm cozy lighting due to gloomy weather, creating a late-night vibe.
Gratitude expressed for viewers tagging the creator in stories and watching lifestyle vlogs.
Transition from gaming content to lifestyle vlogs and realistic living in the city.
Emphasis on the individual nature of monthly expenses and the importance of location.
Detailed breakdown of the creator's rent expense for a 36 sqm condo in an expensive city.
Electricity expense discussion, including an increase due to more time spent at home.
Water expense is unknown but estimated to be around 200 pesos per month.
Internet expense for a 200 Mbps connection due to content creation and streaming needs.
Subscription expenses for Adobe Premiere Pro and Thematic for video editing and music.
Grocery expense averaging around 3,500 pesos per month, including occasional eating out.
Mineral water expense through a subscription service with an initial setup cost.
Transportation expense, particularly for trips back home and emergency situations.
Pet expenses for two dogs, including food, vitamins, diapers, pads, and poop bags.
Self-care expenses such as lash extensions, nail care, and facials for acne-prone skin.
Total monthly expenses calculated, highlighting the cost of living alone in the city.
Personal anecdotes on budgeting, conserving energy, and lifestyle adjustments.
Invitation for viewers to suggest ideas for future videos and potential podcast topics.
Transcripts
Hello everybody welcome back to another video this week's video is a little different but it has
been highly requested and today we're going to be talking about my monthly expense living alone in
the city also it's 3:45 p.m. it suddenly started raining a lot in the city so it's quite gloomy
hence the very warm cozy lighting I tried to use my light to kind of make it a little brighter but
it's giving very warm cozy Vibe like late night Vibe still I hope you all are doing very well um
I would like to start this video off with saying thank you to everyone who's been watching my
videos and tagging me in the stories of you guys watching my videos it really makes me so happy
to see you guys enjoy my videos especially since this is a huge step in the opposite direction of
where my original content was which was mainly gaming and if you don't know I'm also a gaming
streamer content creator I am now diving into more lifestyle Vlogs and just realistic living alone in
the city but going back to the start we are going to be talking about my monthly expenses and I have
a whole spreadsheet here I have filmed this video so many times but realized that I left out a few
expenses so I wanted to make sure everything was accurate and stated in this video so let's
get on also quickly before I start this video I do want to to tell people that this isn't the X
amount you need to be able to move out or live alone this isn't the standard this isn't what
you should expect because once again everybody lives their lives differently location wise usage
consumption wise it's all very different but I wanted to share just how much I spend and if
ever you were planning to move out or live alone here are some expenses you can also consider when
you do decide to do that so without further Ado let us begin let us start with my biggest biggest
expense every month while I live here which is my rent expense for those of you who are new here I
live in a 36 sqm condo in the city it is quite an expensive city I would say compared to a lot
of other cities in the Philippines hence why rent is a lot more expensive so I pay P34,000 for this
I also cover this completely on my own expense and I live alone of course in different parts
of the Philippines they have different costs this is where the importance of knowing your
location or deciding which location you want to move to is very important the
next expense is the electricity expense and I did talk about this in my previous
Vlogs and we revealed it together but if you watched that my electricity bill was
P1,650.32 so ideally my electricity consumption would stay between 1.5k but now that I am at
home most of the time I'm expecting my bill to go higher because I'm using more of my condos
electricity compared to when I was at the office for 9 hours a day! next is water expense so this
is the tap water and bathroom sink toilet water all that to this day I still don't know how much
my water bill is because it goes in the same time as association dues and and my landlord handles
that but I know they will ask me to pay for that usually by the end of your lease or whenever they
remind me to pay I have followed up with them and they still haven't told me anything but I'm
expecting around 200 pesos for my water bill per month and my reference to this was the two-bedroom
unit I lived with my sister when we lived together in pasig but now that I'm in a different city I'm
not entirely sure what to expect but hoping that it is not not above 200 per month I also did hear
from my friends that water expense in the city is a lot more expensive so hm hopefully it's not too
high the next expense is my internet expense now this again varies for everybody I personally need
at least 200 Mbps because aside from creating content I also am a streamer and play video
games and having fast reliable internet is so important so every month I pay around 1699 pesos
for 200 Mbps why did I say it like that? for 200 Mbps internet and my ISP is PLDT the next expense
again this is different for everybody this is my subscription expense so what I mainly need and
probably would not survive if I didn't have would be my Adobe Premiere Pro and my thematic premium
subscription so the Adobe Premiere Pro is my video editing software it is what I use to edit this
video to edit my reals to edit almost everything it all happens through Adobe Premiere Pro and I
don't see myself switching to anything quite yet so I'm really getting my money's worth off of this
software and this is 1,146 pesos and I believe they are increasing their prices by the next time
I pay. my thematic subscription is actually annually but if we divide it into 12 months
it's about 506 pesos per month and thematic is what I use for the background music and
my Vlogs and they just give me a very easy way to be licensed with them just by being
subscribed to them annually the next expense is my grocery expense I've been living here
for almost 3 months and I wouldn't say that I'm the best at knowing what to grocery for I will
admit I still do eat out and treat myself to some good food especially when it's a little
too hassle for me to cook or if I'm too busy but it's nice to know that I have the option to just
cook food at home in case I really want to save more money I all lot about 3,500 pesos per month
for my groceries which is a lot little compared to other people I've noticed some people spend like
3K per run and they go to the groceries two times a month so I try to budget myself to do 35 for
the whole month given that I still do eat out or you know treat myself to a good ramen Bowl every
now and then I can say that my grocery expense has been more or less been followed in this past
month I've spent 3,775 okay that's a little over my budget but it's usually when you've just moved
in that you have to stock up on a lot of things which you will normally not repurchase every time
you go so I'm allowing it to go a little bit over the budget knowing that I'm not going to
be repurchasing a lot lot of the things that I got until they run out which will probably take two to
3 months but the ones that I will be repurchasing every now and then would be the goods that spoil
easily like the vegetables um if I want more fresh meat or fruits and juice and just the ones that I
would consume on a daily next is the mineral water expense which is usually included in the grocery
expense but I started a subscription or it's not really a subscription I started getting the big
containers which are called carboys I never knew they were called carboys until I Googled
it but those big gallon containers I have five of those and to get started you need five empty big
containers and since I didn't have any of those I asked if they could provide me some and they said
it would cost 1,250 which is really expensive given that I live alone I don't really see that
it's practical knowing that I won't be able to finish five gallons not even gallons five huge
containers of water in the span of one month I do know in the long term it'll be easier for me like
I would probably only ever have to refill this two to three times my entire year of living here
um just hoping that the water doesn't get spoiled sitting out for too long and then once all those
five containers are finished I send them back and they replace them with five more containers
for 250 Pesos so the next expense I like to keep in mind every month is how much I'm allotting to
my grab or Transportation expense sometimes I go back home to Cavite where my parents are and that
is a grab plus a bus ride from here um and that usually cost me around 300 pesos to go back so
I like to a lot that the only problem now is that I live with my dogs so it's kind of hard to go on
the bus or it's not hard you're not allowed to go on a bus with pets I usually just wait for
them to pick me up but aside from going back and forth home I do like to lot some of my expenses
towards my grab or my transportation fees in case it's raining in case it's an emergency I like to
allot around 1,500 ideally like 1,000 is Max per month to grab and this month I have spent 1,396
pesos on my grab moving on to my next expense which isn't I would say it's still monthly for
me but if you don't have that you don't even have to worry but I do live with my dogs this is this
is Bucky he is on my bed right now because it's been raining and there has been a little bit of
thunder and he is quite scared of that so he was shaking earlier but if he's on my bed or if he's
close to me he feels more safe if you guys have dogs you also have to allocate expenses for them
and it's so true when you do get a dog they are pricey and it's a huge huge responsibility um it's
definitely something that I learned when I first got my first dog Penny who is on the floor right
now when I first got her I don't really expect how expensive or like how much you have to pay
for them until you're in that moment I mean I grew up with dogs in my family but of course it would
be my parents paying for their expenses but Penny and Bucky were the first dogs that I had to fully
cover for honestly it's worth it for me I don't really ever try to to think about how expensive
they are because the joy my dogs bring and just staring at them and they're so cute just is so
worth and much more the money I spend but let us discuss the expenses of owning two small dogs when
you live alone first pet expense are their dog food I put them on Chihuahua food but recently
I'm switching them over to x small adult and Penny is going to be going on a dog food that's more
catered to her coat cus she's been having skin problems so around that for a month two bags of
dog food would be 1,653 pesos and I just checked this out earlier because I needed to restock but
I would say more or less 1,600 pesos for their dog food for the whole month next are my dogs vitamins
it's also very important to make sure your dogs are getting the amount of vitamins and supplements
that they need so I make sure to invest in that I put them on their vitamin C gel kind of treat
that they like it's not really a treat it's like a gel that you squeeze out a tube that is around
399 or almost like 400 pesos and I wouldn't say I would buy that every month it would last me almost
2 months because they don't take a lot but yeah that is an expense I allocate next expenses are
my dog's diapers and their pea pads so the diapers for my mail dog they cost around 403 pesos that's
with shipping that I order online and then their dog pads are P499 also ordered online next are
their dog poop bags for when I walk them I use these biodegradable lavender scented poop bags
or something like that and they come in like packs of nine I believe nine rolls of poop bags with 15
bags in each roll it cost me about 183 pesos next dog treats I need to have dog treats all
the time because it is the only way my dogs will ever listen to me if I'm walking them or if I'm
calling them I just pull out the dog treats and they come so aside from it being like a fun little
snack that they have it also helps me control them a little more so I recently just repurchased their
dog treats and they come in three bags sorry if the camera is wobbling Bucky is like moving around
the bed they come in three bags and it was P1,199 for three bags bags and I'm pretty sure that would
last me like a month and a half or 2 months even the next expense would be my dogs wipes so every
time I walk them and they come back I have to wipe their feet but I am thinking of switching to like
a dog cleaning thing that way I wouldn't need to keep buying wipes of course I would still need
wipes to you know wipe their bum bum when they've done a little poo poo every now and then you know
the next expense are their grooming I don't get them groomed all the time especially with
they like they're really short-haired and like Bucky he's long-haired but it's it doesn't get
unruly um so that would probably be like every other 3 months but that alone costs it depends
on where I go if I go back home it's around 600 to 900 if I do it in the city it's like5
so I don't think I would ever get them groomed in the city again but I do have to bring them
to get their nails trimmed and they're they're like butt hair trimmed which can cost around
around 600 in the city and back in Cavite would cost around like less than 200 for that okay the
next expense I lot are my self-care expense you know I'm all about self-care and like feeling
good with myself and pampering myself I think that's very important and like a monthly expense
I would say would be my lashes and my nails but I'm starting to not do lashes and nails every
month only when there's an occasion like my lashes I just got done this morning because I have an
event tomorrow and then it's my birthday next week and the last time I got my lashes done were for
my brother's wedding in March so I don't do them all the time now and I also really love my natural
lashes but whenever there's a special little event I would get them done my nails I haven't done them
in a while I am letting them breathe and heal because I got really traumatized the last time I
got my nails done they were flaking off they were so so bad so now I only ever get them like cut and
shaped and like cleaned um and that would be it which is a lot more cheaper and feels healthier
too so I would say these lash extensions were 750 but with a transportation expense going there it
could get to 1,500 but I lot around 1,200 for my lashes and my last self-care expense are my
facials I have acne prone skin and my skin is just not the best right now it's it's healing
it's going through it um but I do get monthly facials if not monthly every two weeks um I
get facials at skin station or at another clinic that just helps clear my skin and extract all the
gunk under that cost around I would say 900 because I had it on promos so every session
is 900 and I try to go at least once a month but sometimes it becomes two times a month if my skin
is really bad my total others expense would be 6,833.7 pesos and my total needs expense would
be 45,600.68 pesos which brings us to a total expense of what am I hearing I'm hearing like
hammering which brings us to a total of expense of 52,589 pesos per month that's expensive that's
expensive but you know what living alone has been a journey for me I have definitely- why do I say
words so weird today? I've definitely learned how to budget more of my money and to be more aware
of and to be more aware of how much I spend and I think ever since I moved in I've been
trying to conserve as much energy as I could you know I only use the AC I would say Max 6
hours a day um on average it would be like 2 to three hours a day before I go to bed
but on the days that I end up streaming or the days I have friends or guess over it could go
up to like 6 hours a day I mainly just use my electric fan and that's it I also since I got
my electricity bill the beginning of this month I have stopped using the water heat
because I realized why am I paying for hot water when it's already so hot in the Philippines I
should be enjoying the cold water and honestly ever since I made that switch I have just been
feeling a burst of energy and I just feel so like ready to start the day and you guys should try it
too just don't don't shower with hot water anymore it's not good for your hair it's not good for your
skin just go for the cold water not even cold go for the normal temperature water it's it's great
of course I have another spreadsheet of my Etc expenses now these these are where I splurge and
buy things that I want or the amount of times I eat at someone is hammering really loud the amount
of times I eat out I also have a listed down and I don't think I'm going to talk about it in this
video all right I'm going to end the video here because there is some construction going on and
they are hammering so I will go now but thank you for watching till the end of this video I
hope you guys enjoyed this I'm trying to come up with different different ideas per video that way
it's not just you watching me like you're a CCTV watching some person live their life I'm going to
try to keep it informative and beneficial for you guys you know at the same time so I'm going to try
to come up with interesting and creative ideas and if you have any suggestions or ideas leave
them in the comments down below I love hearing your thoughts and your ideas as well and I would
love to just make content CED for whatever you guys would prefer to but till then I will see you
guys around on social media or on my live streams on Twitch bye now oh also PS should I start a
podcast cuz I I'm really liking this like chitchat chatting chat yapping talking talking thing but
maybe we could do a podcast about life we can do a podcast about just anything under the sun we
could do a podcast about red flags or a podcast about self-care and self- love we could do that
okay anyways let me know what you think I'll see you guys in the next video bye
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