 What's up everyone my name is Jossi and if you're new here welcome to my channel. I'm a 26 year old software engineer working and living in the New York City Metro area. Since moving to the NYC area about four or five months ago my expenses have increased significantly so I've made a more conscious effort to better manage my spending. I'd be lying to you if I said I managed my finances perfectly but hey I'm trying and it can only get better. In this video I'm going to break down how much I spend in a typical week in 2022. First I'd like to say that I'm extremely grateful and just blessed to have the opportunity to move to my dream location land a roll with the specific title that I've been trying to attain for a while which is one a software engineer title because technically that does matter and also being a front-end engineer on a UX team. It's so incredible to work with just very brilliant and creative technologists from the engineering side to the design side and product side. 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Today is Monday I barely left the house I only left to do some filming and then we actually just got home from Costco and this Costco bill is pretty expensive but we haven't gone to Costco in a really long time and one thing that I believe is true is that when we go to Costco we go out to eat a lot less so spending $60 for a meal for each for two people is way more expensive than spending like $15 or $10 for a meal so at Costco we spent a total of $258.86 like I said we haven't been to Costco in forever so we had to restock on pretty much everything turkey ground meat chicken breasts salmon paper towels everything but you also have to technically discount the $258.86 by $67.73 because we got the redeemable only at Costco reward gift certificate so technically Monday's total is let me bring the calculator out 258 minus 258.86 258.86 minus 67.73 $191 and 13 cents it can be difficult to save money while living in the New York area you really have access to everything food entertainment and fashion Tuesday was actually a pretty cheap day I paid for a round trip metro card which totaled to $5.50 I decided to get some boba tea which I actually ended up regretting it because I really didn't need it but it's hard to pass up on cool storefronts selling refreshing drinks this mango boba tea came to $8.27 I actually did go into one of my favorite stores Stussy it's actually better to do a little bit of shopping on the weekdays so you don't have to wait in line on the weekends all in all Tuesday's total came to a whopping $14.12 Wednesday was also a pretty chill day when it came to spending I worked from home so that always saves me money since I didn't have to take the transit or be tempted to eat out for lunch I went to the gym forgot my water bottle and paid four dollars for this Fiji water I also went to Trader Joe's to pick up some specific dishes we like to eat that you can really only get there the Trader Joe's trip total to $54.71 so Wednesday's total was $58.71 Thursday was a super gloomy day but surprisingly it ended up being my second most expensive day I had to run a staples to print which cost 21 cents I also had to run a FedEx to ship out an important package and that total to $61.50 so Thursday's total was $61.71 today is Friday it's actually almost five o'clock I haven't spent any money today so I'm doing a really good job but I do know that we're probably going to go out to eat somewhere nice or get some takeout just parked the whip and I ordered some food to go from burgers and lobster it's burger and lobster I was gonna get five guys but I was like I'm in the city why would I buy five guys when I can go to a really nice restaurant and get takeout but $16 is what it costs for me to cross the bridge from New Jersey into Manhattan and I'm gonna get that in the mail since I didn't have cash and then also it costs $34 I know I can't even stomach that $34 to park my car I couldn't take the transit to do what I needed to do I needed to return something and I didn't want to take the transit normally I would or I would just do street parking but since the store closed at six and street parking isn't metered until after six I had no choice specifically because I'm in midtown and I didn't think I'd be able to get away with parking where I'm not supposed to all right so to park for one hour it was four dollars and 35 cents you can say I'm a little bit annoyed because I paid for that garage and street parking but it is what it is I spent $11 and 22 cents for Lee and I's drinks at this Starbucks by the way if you're ever near Fifth Avenue this Starbucks made really good drinks not watered down at all also got food from burger and lobster takeout costed $62.95 remember crossing the bridge was $16 so this brings my Friday total to $126.17 so my total for this week was $451.84 I feel like I did a really good job obviously in this video I didn't count my like car insurance car payment rent I wanted to focus more so on the day-to-day spending throughout my week working as a software engineer in the New York City area I think I did a pretty good job I've been trying to be more wise and more smart with my spending and investing so taking the money that I would normally spend on miscellaneous items and actually putting it into the stock market or investing in my channel once again thank you to dice for sponsoring this video be sure to give this video a thumbs up and subscribe for more content like this and as always have a blessed rest of your week I'll see you all soon peace