Darkseid -
Not only funny as hell, but little too extreme for me...
I still eat out, mostly fast food, but the key is MODERATION! On average about $5, or $20 a week, usually only eat lunch out - $1200 a year
Car, HA! I live in the San Fernando Valley and unless you REALLY want to get clowned by women here, don't buy a car. You'll almost never date! lol
I have a POS '95 Dodge Neon, that I'm restoring and upgrading at the same time. Paid $1200 for it, makes about 150hp at the wheels (132hp is stock). Yeah its lowered and all that BS, but I'm into that. Its not a car I use for dates anyway. Its $65 a month to insure it. I mostly use my stepfather's '94 GMC Sonoma SLE pickup (loaded) or I just rent a car ($35 and refill from Enterprise)
I don't drink, smoke, use drugs and because my mother didn't allow me to grab a candy bar anytime I wanted to or over-eat Halloween candy, I don't eat alot of candy bars and chocolate is an anti-oxident so again MODERATION is the key.
Since 1989 I have hardly paid to get into any nightclub, see my screen name. It's never what you know its who you know. That being said, I haven't been clubbing as much because I always felt clubbing was a "team" sport. You need a wingman as your correct in most AW' travel in packs or "herds" at nightclubs.
I haven't offically started saving, but I will this year as I really have everything I want already. I do want a new car (im a car guy) and an LCD TV and few other odds and ends, but mostly I'm content and I'll be able to save at least $1,000 a month between my travel plans for 2006 and beyond.
CBGB -
The cost of traveling down there has it on my list of places to go in maybe 2007. As understand US servicemen do extermely well since our Navy makes that trip on a regular basis. I have also spoken with vistors and people online from both NZ and AU and I have to agree for such a small country I think they enjoy life a bit more than say with do. I just couldn't get used to driving on the right side of the car, however I would love to own a Holden or a Ford Falcon...