[at-l] money planning

[cleek@csc.smsu.edu (Billie H. Cleek)]

So you spent $3200 + the money for your maildrops? How much did the food
in your maidrops cost you? What about total postage?

Cleek

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 Debbie_Smith@millipore.com wrote:

> 
> >Ok, so far I have to highly conflicting answers. More feedback would be
> >appreciated.
> 
> I spent $3200.00 in 1998.  You WILL spend more than you expect, unless you
> have extreme self control.  Here's how my spending breaks down:
> 
> As I said in a previous post, I mailed myself ALL of my dinners, ALL of my
> breakfasts, one candy bar and one protein bar for every day, and
> miscellaneous snacks that rotated between boxes.  Sometimes it was beef
> jerky, sometimes, doritos, sometimes my sister included baked goods,
> sometimes it was a whole package of Girl Scout cookies or double-stuff
> Oreo's (I LOVE those).  SO, the only food I bought along the way was
> whatever I ate while in town, bread products, cheese and lunch/snack stuff.
> 
> I never got sick of the Lipton's as lots of people do, because I had
> included a wide variety of both noodle and rice dishes.  I also included
> the occasional salsa, dehydrated veggies, and dehydrated meat.  I DID get
> sick of oatmeal and poptarts in 2 weeks, so I changed to nutrigrain bars
> (which my sister bought and included in the boxes).  And I made my own gorp
> as I went along sampling other people's :-)
> 
> SO the money I spent was 'town money' for lodging, meals, entertainment,
> and trail lunch food, and I did everything I wanted to - which means that I
> never stayed out of town because I didn't want to spend the money.
> 
> I think I stayed in a hotel 6 times.  I stayed in hostels a bunch of times
> but my first town was Hot Springs (stayed at the Duckett House actually)
> and I hadn't been to town before that.  I tried to stay away from the
> really popular drinking/party towns (not my thing) like Gatlinburg, but did
> stay in many other towns.  I also bought my friends dinner, lunch, ice
> cream, whatever whenever I wanted to.
> 
> Along the way I bought a new pair of boots for $220.00, and some smartwool
> socks, a couple pair of $5.00 shorts, a $6.00 town dress and a new $30.00
> silkweight capilene shirt.  No other gear.  I DIDN'T PLAN to buy any of
> this.  Plans change so you need to build in margin for that.
> 
> This amount also this included postage for the bouncebox, and for shipping
> stuff home and a $100.00 train ticket home once, where I went for a
> graduation/birthday in June.  Hope this helps.
> 
> Twilight
> GA>ME '98
> 
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