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00:00good morning beautiful day tompkin square park we are in east village wow stunning anyways it is day
00:19one and today's an exciting day because it is a friday and so we have some exciting expenses i
00:26would say but the first place we're going to is a spot that just opened up everyone is talking
00:33about it i haven't tried it yet and you can only hear about a place so many times before you just
00:37got to go see for yourself you know like everyone else in new york city i am yeah cool i'm doing a
00:51little vlog you want to say hi yay okay here we are apollo bagels first time everyone is talking
00:57about can i do a bagel with cream cheese and a bagel with butter and jam please i will also do
01:03an iced coffee please yes thank you so much i like you guys already i am i would be honored
01:11taylor bell first and last bell like bell like ring-a-ding-ding exactly bagel bye bagel bye
01:16what's your name john john bagel john bagel john that'll be easy to remember that's my brother
01:22dad grandpa thank you so much wow oh i just made my morning he gave me a 50 discount which was so so
01:31nice and unnecessary but i'll take it bagel secured but first while we're walking to our eating
01:37destination a little context on me to preempt my upcoming week of spending hi i'm taylor i am 26 years
01:45old i live in manhattan new york city which is the most expensive borough and the most expensive city
01:51in the united states and what do i do for work to pay for my lavish lifestyle it's not that lavish
01:57i make videos what you're watching right now full-time now but i did this at the same time as
02:03management consulting for three years after graduating from college old news if you've been
02:07here before but that is some important context the whole dual jobs thing as far as my spending goes so
02:15all right moment of truth let's start with i want something sweet i'm going to start with a jelly
02:21bagel i mean it's good obviously bread and jelly can't really go wrong it's a little more toasted than
02:29my preference but tastes great the real test of if a bagel is good very good i literally feel like i'm
02:37cheating on chomping store bagel right now anyway with that very very kind 50 discount plus the tip that
02:42i added on top of that these two bagels and iced coffee came out to this hey guys here we are at
02:50s'more another east village spot for dinner i got spaghetti balls i'm trying to do fewer obnoxious laughs
02:57i do it a lot and i have to edit it out and it's kind of a pain so no laughing no smiling
03:12something else anything else oh i guess i should see where we are we are at cafe mogador
03:27saint garb's place in this village classic east village spots super super yummy i would highly
03:32recommend if you're coming to the world also famous people come here a lot it's like a low-key
03:37scene this spot even though it's like pretty affordable and just yummy we're talking a-listers
03:43recent sightings by my very close friends at cafe mogador include kieran kolkin zoe kravitz last week
03:49just as stunning in person apparently and ryan reynolds and lewis hamilton together so yeah
03:56they brought me a little erlen meyer flask a little taylor you idiot that's obviously a florence flask
04:03that was fun we're having fun english breakfast and should i show the coffee
04:10i already got a coffee food came look at the hollandaise of sorts with some bacon
04:14potatoes side salad find all and its friend behind the camera got an eggplant dish here and some pita
04:21and some other kind of anyway grand total of
04:26what's up turtle here we are at book club which is a book club this is a bookstore coffee tea during
04:41day and a little work i'm gonna do some peter time turns wine bar and beer and beverages at night
04:46it's a really fun spot also in east village i don't know if it's an east village classic i feel like it's
04:50kind of become about coffee my anonymous friend actually purchased it for me but i'm consuming
04:57it so it's going in the video but yeah here doing a little bit of work hanging out saturday vibes
05:05anything else
05:08all right guys it has been two years since i filmed what i spend in a week a lot can change in two years
05:14actually though my spending definitely has changed quite a bit i undoubtedly spend more now which we'll
05:20talk about more at the end when i add everything up but one thing that has not changed since my
05:24first installment of this video was my desire to take it way too seriously so once again we're going
05:29to calculate all the expenses in this video using accrual basis accounting which really just means
05:34that we're going to recognize all of the expenses at the point of consumption not payment but why taylor
05:40that makes things so much harder here's why let's say i buy a bag of coffee beans for 20 but that bag of
05:45beans lasts me a full month it gives a way more accurate representation of what i spend on average
05:50every single day to count each individual cup of coffee that i consume that week from that bag of
05:55beans and i'm not buying a bag of beans every single day if i was that'd be another problem like
06:00hoarding or some medical condition okay ground rules established action cool what's up guys come on in
06:07here we are in uh nolita part of manhattan new york city and this is elizabeth street garden it's
06:13actually one of my favorite places in the city it's really cool it's kind of like cemetery vibes where you
06:17have like lots of little options on places you sit would recommend stopping here if you come to the
06:21city so this is what i spent in a week so we wanted a little sweet treat or a little a little
06:25something hot to hold got myself a hot tea 325. hi
06:32content day content day here we are in nolita new york city at the chai spot so come take a look
06:48well first of all what i got i got this iced chai and this cardamom cookie but here's what's cool about
06:54this place i'm taking gander where do you meet you take a seat with your friends you hang out
07:09you talk shop right yeah pretty cool anyway my first sign here i've heard about it before though
07:16it doesn't smell like feet i kind of thought it would anyway this costs this much signing off
07:23hung out with friends at the chai spot for a couple hours great rainy day spot then ubered
07:28up to the west village to catch up with a former co-worker slash friend of mine
07:31over a couple glasses of wine at one of my favorite wine bars
07:42and later at night poli via ubereats sometimes you just you just gotta do it and i just kept pushing
07:51dinner off no regrets this is gonna hit the spot i can tell anyways next day
08:01hello happy sunday first purchase of today is a hot drip coffee that i put in my to go container
08:09because this keeps it really really hot and there's nothing i hate more than lukewarm coffee
08:14it's got to be hot or it's got to be iced i can drink lukewarm tea i cannot drink lukewarm coffee anyway
08:20it's sunday so i'm actually doing a bit of work because i have a very very busy two weeks of video
08:27stuff coming up and so i need to get ahead that's the name of the game i don't mind working on sundays
08:31if that's what i need to do i think it's kind of fun
08:40hi can i create my own sandwich all right taking a break from editing to do
08:45lunch this sandwich costs 14 14 which is on the higher end for a sandwich but it is so so good
08:52i've had it at that place before anyways today visiting a friend in fort green i just came
08:56early to do some work and guys this is the quintessential new york city brownstone neighborhood just
09:04absolutely stunning i would love to live in one like this one day although i do worry about natural
09:11life because it's kind of like a long bowling alley and you don't get windows on the sides of your
09:15house because your townhouses i wonder if it gets a little dark anyways this is like half vlog half
09:20what i spend in a week but i think that's more fun right fort green park brooklyn taylor sandwich
09:30okay and it's so filling did i mention
09:43all right already ate most of it but chicken tikka masala little indian dinner yummy way to end out
09:50a good sunday night now on to the next day
09:54all right here at la cabra i feel like every place i've been going is like a famous east village
10:01spot but this one actually is it's supposed to be some of the best coffee in new york city and i
10:07can't believe i haven't had it yet anyway i got a filter coffee it's still too hot expensive but
10:11it's a pour over and it's kind of a trendy place so it is what it is moment of truth
10:15okay what do i really think because i was sitting down there there were a couple women sitting right
10:24next to me so i was talking in hush tones anyways walking down 10th street and here are my thoughts
10:29for reals it's good don't get me wrong do i like it a lot more than the hot smooth americanos that i
10:36make myself in my kitchen not necessarily
10:52all right many many hours later i've been working all day i had a couple snacks midday i had a banana
11:10from trader joe's which i know is 23 cents and then i had some leftovers that i bought last week so that's
11:15zero dollars but about to go spend some money on you'll see you'll see all right just e-biked parked
11:26it i have lift pink which is the subscription you pay every single year to make it much much cheaper
11:31and i e-bike like everywhere so it's totally worth it
11:37so my workout classes are definitely one of my splurges these puppies are not cheap but it is
11:42something that i'm so so happy to pay for because it keeps me in a good workout routine that i
11:46actually look forward to even still i try to get them as cheap as possible so i use class pass which
11:51actually makes them about 35 cheaper if you're interested my class pass referral link is in the
11:55description we both get credits but not sponsored whatsoever genuinely just a great hack to get
12:00workout classes a bit cheaper shower complete pimple patch on and had this waiting for me when i got
12:10home kava via uber eats a beautiful beautiful thing good morning nice sunny day wow wow wow the morning
12:22light that comes in this room is exquisite anyways first purchase consumption of the day americano
12:30so yum all right i've been doing some work admin stuff this morning making a little something
12:39something before i head out to the coffee shop to do the bulk of my work today all trader joe's things
12:44of course and assemble
12:55all right i came back home to make a late lunch honestly i don't normally cook
12:59quite this much but i'm trying to get rid of all the meat and things that i have in the fridge
13:03before i go away for the weekend for memorial day chicken farro pesto salad it's much bigger in real
13:10life it's like here's my hand for yeah there you go you can tell there huh i need to paint my nails
13:14geez pretty unexciting day in terms of purchases but made myself another yogurt bowl with a bunch of fruit
13:21there's honey drizzled on there honestly this is more like a dessert yeah trader joe's once again
13:25i'm clearing out my fridge normally i actually eat out more but it costs about this much makes me
13:31realize how much money i save with uh grocery shopping all right i cannot sleep i've just been
13:36laying here with like an empty belly which makes sense i didn't eat all that much today so i went
13:41downstairs to the kitchen and i shit you not i just ate a chicken breast just one singular chicken breast
13:49one of the ones that i cooked earlier and mixed it with some pesto it's been marinating all day
13:53it was really good i'm not gonna lie and another one of these trader joe's yogurts this is my third
13:57one of the day big yogurt day could have left this out of the video but no i'm committed good morning
14:04here i am in pumpkin square park just thought i'd walk here before starting my work day today and wow
14:12the seasons come and go so quickly like just last week this was a whole bed of gorgeous purple flowers
14:18i definitely took a video i'll insert it here and also the it's so funny the unemployed friend
14:23on a tuesday you know that meme it's where like it's a random tuesday afternoon but a ton of people
14:28are out and about like sunbathing or whatever and whenever i see that i look at them and i'm like
14:33i know what i'm doing but what are you doing anyway cost of enjoying some beautiful new york city nature
14:39can i do this please thank you hi yeah um for the refillable drip can i do ice coffee please
14:49yeah thank you all right just worked there for four hours and needed a little change of scenery but
14:55first these caterpillars been looking a little shaggy so all right got the eyebrows threaded and
15:00the upper lip hurt like a it really hurts every single time but the price of beauty
15:06cleans it up for upper lip eyebrows and tip notepad hello came home to work got really hungry
15:15ordered kava let's go i love kava so much uber eats it though so i can work anyway obviously it's a bit
15:20more expensive to have it delivered than to go get it and with delivery and all that good stuff it is a
15:25hefty meal though sometimes i actually eat it in two sittings but i'm very hungry i'm gonna finish this
15:30midnight snack before sleep wow what a surprise trader joe's yogurt with some granola
15:40good morning day seven gloomy gross day in new york
15:46oh well anyway i love thursdays it feels like a start to the weekend for me where i still very much
15:52work a full day but then have a slightly more fun dinner that night or you know it's just a fun little
15:58anticipatory day leading into the weekend so
16:20all right came back home to finish work you'll never guess what i'm about to make
16:27absolutely gorgeous look at that look at that indulgent it is as good i swear as like
16:41whatever i get out and about okay you might not have been able to tell in this video but this was
16:47actually a grind week of work editing videos pretty much all day long hence the lack of seeing friends
16:52during the week so when i finally got to see someone on this night i naturally forgot to
16:56film until the very end so please envision a delicious bowl of ramen here at my favorite ramen
17:00spot in the city of puto hello i think it's only fitting that the final purchase in this whole
17:07entire video is my favorite ice cream in the entire world van leuwen brown sugar cookie dough brown
17:15that's exactly what it sounds like it's delicious what'd you get
17:23oh and this was it's not cheap it's expensive but it's so good and you introduced me to this ice
17:28cream six months ago now something like that i've been a big fan ever since oh yeah i guess final
17:34thought it's a really cool date spot as well we're on 7th street and 2nd avenue in east village
17:40all right all we have left to do is add it up and then we'll go over my thoughts on all this so
17:46everything you saw in this video comes out to a grand total of 470.66 but of course this is not
17:55even counting my largest expense of all which is rent so i spend 3175 per month which on a weekly
18:03basis comes out to 730.68 not cheap plus utilities which definitely vary month to month but i looked
18:12through my recent bills and on average it comes out to about 10 per week and internet which is 767 per
18:18week plus my subscriptions like youtube premium and my annual amex fee all of that comes out to about
18:2424.21 per week and technically under accrual accounting you would also count the depreciation
18:30on all of the stuff i buy from the clothes on my body to the makeup that i'm wearing but
18:34that is a level of granularity that interests me not so after adding these non-trivial expenses as
18:40well i spend about 1243 dollars per week and if we're being realistic on average it's definitely
18:48a bit more than this if we start counting things like travel and clothes and the books that i buy over
18:53the course of the year so what are my thoughts and am i surprised by this amount because like i said at
18:58the beginning of this video i definitely spend a lot more now than i used to i'm not gonna lie
19:02it is actually a bit higher than i expected but i have kind of said this before but i'll say it again
19:08because i think it's important and it might help some of you guys watching i was raised with a very
19:13frugal mindset which i still largely carry with me today and always will even if it didn't seem like
19:18it in this video however over the last couple years i have learned that letting myself spend a bit more
19:24on the little things that i enjoy and the medium things like going out for coffee or trying a new
19:29restaurant with a friend or taking an uber for convenience because it's raining or even talking
19:34the biggest expenses spending a lot more on rent 70 percent more in fact than when i first moved to
19:40new york to live in a walkable neighborhood that i really really love as long as i'm not spending
19:45frivolously and i'm still living well below my means letting go of that guilt that i used to feel
19:50for spending money on things like this and just allowing myself to enjoy them has been very very
19:56freeing of course there's a balance to strike even some of the things in this video i was like oh
20:01anyways guys this video took me a long time to make so if you enjoyed it at all i would really
20:06really appreciate it if you subscribed and hit the thumbs up it's totally free and if you're feeling
20:11frisky might as well sign up for my email newsletter while you're at it link is in description and until
20:15next time turtle out thank you you're like john i'll actually grab my camera because tompin square park
20:25is not my favorite place to leave my camera just out and about
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