WELCOME TO HOW I Spend My Money, a series on The Journal that looks at how people in Ireland really handle their finances.
Last time around, we heard from a HR specialist on €57K living in Limerick and saving for a deposit for a house. This week, a 24-year-old junior health and safety officer on €42K living in Dublin. 10.30 am: That’s done, but one of the dogs has now guilted me into bringing him for a walk. I grab his harness and try and get it on him while he is doing backflips with excitement. I bring him about 5km around the village and grab a coffee on our route .
2.00 pm-ish: We have arrived at the track and it is torrential rain out. Thankfully I have a company umbrella in the boot. We grab that and head into the other girls. One of the girls has free tickets so we use those and leave others at the gate for the other girls to collect on their way in. Otherwise, I think entry on Grand National day otherwise would have been €30 or so.
6.00 pm: I stay at my boyfriend’s house tonight as he is just back from a trip and haven’t seen him in a week. We go food shopping and I pick up my lunch for work the next day – chicken and rice . 7.15 am: In work and do a few bits. I am dying for a cup of tea. Pour water into my cup and go to the fridge to get milk, only to find the door of the fridge wide open and no milk inside. Today is going to be a bad day by the looks of it.