So like one month ago exactly I rented this apartment and had to run to the bank to do all kinds of stuff, like putting 20,000 sheks into an untouchable fund in the event I damage the apartment, which I did via a bank loan. Because I have to pay the full years’ rent in advance, my mother wired me the money to do so and it is still sitting there in the dollar account as the landlady and her husband have not yet given me directions to putting it into their account. In the meantime, because the exchange rate was at a serious low, my bank manager convinced me it would be better to take a 15k shekel loan to cover the moving expenses, initial rent check, $950 payment to the crooks who are running the real estate agency (I really should post about what all those people have done. I will note that I now have a new phone with a new phone number, in part because they have been calling me between 5-13 times a day, every day and harassing me) rather than converting anything over. So ok. Now 15k sheks is about $3,500 dollars. Granted basically $2,000 went to the rent and the real estate crooks. Then there was the 2k sheks I paid to Kosso the mover (about $500). Then the electric company informed me that they had only been guestimating my payments every month in the previous apartment and that now, according to the meter, I owed them an additional 400 sheks to make up for their undercharging me for 2 years. Somehow, the water bill for both July and August was 3 times higher than it was for the other months of the year (generally running about 85 sheks a month –now July was at 312 and August at 270! What the hell!). Then there were additional cleaning supplies and stuff like that, that you always have to get when you move apartments. But I still have to get furniture stuff for the new place (yo, a bookcase or two)…

In short, checking my bank account, I have not only gone through the entire 15,000 sheks I borrowed but also my monthly salary and it is not even the end of the month. I honestly cannot figure out where it is all going. I don’t eat out (well actually, I did during the 3 day-moving period which cost 150 sheks more than I would spend in a month). I don’t go to movies, or plays or any other entertainment things that cost money. I mean, I splurged on one movie in the last two years! Food cannot be costing me that much because I only eat one meal a day! I’m sitting down today and trying to figure out where to cut down on costs but good l-rd from where I don’t know.

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