Money makes the world go 'round.

I never quite got how expensive it was to be in London.

I mean. I got the fact that it was expensive to eat out. I got the fact that it would not be cheap. But I never quite got just how expensive it was. Going as a tourist, you always have the budget, the amount of money that you have exchanged and you will try (sometimes have) to stay within that budget, without touching your VISA. Let's be honest, I hardly ever managed to stay within my budget, and almost always brought out my little green card.

But living here, when I cannot escape to my VISA whenever my budget won't allow me, is something entirely different. I have to live of the money I earn and eventhough that actually goes further than I thought, it still bothers me that I cannot spend the same kind of money as I do when I am a tourist. Writing this down, it surely sounds like the biggest first-world problem, but it is just something that got to me the other day.

I have however, found ways to avoid spending lots of money, and I have managed to save up quite a bit already. My, without a doubt, biggest expense is food. Eating out costs a fortune and actually getting food from the house, rather than going out to eat saves me a tremendous amount of money each week. Sure, not rocket science, but how fun is it really to sit down and eat dinner in your kitchen when you have London, and endless possibilities in terms of food and restaurants outside your window???

Saving up though. What am I saving up to? I don't know. Yes, honestly. I want to go to concerts, musicals, museums, theatres, pictures. But I also kind of want to go somewhere outside of London. And eventhough I can't think of a better time to do it, I am now feeling like maybe I should just do that in future and save my money for now. Deep down, I do realise that I am saving up money now, that I am going to spend on that later anyway. It just feels hard to let go of your money and see the £0,00.00 when you check your account balance.

This ended up going nowhere and turned out to be nothing but a rant about my assets and expenses.