2018: Realistic food spending query

[cookie09]

Many years ago I used to do

Cereal at breakfast: HKD5
Lunch at Harbour City Foodcourt: HKD50
Friend Rice at local place: HKD16
Shots at Carnegies on Tuesdays: free

Total: HKD71 * 30 = HKD 2,130


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[Mat]

Many years ago I used to doCereal at breakfast: HKD5Lunch at Harbour City Foodcourt: HKD50Friend Rice at local place: HKD16Shots at Carnegies on Tuesdays: freeTotal: HKD71 * 30 = HKD 2,130

Yeah but you need to add all the extras here and there (you never ever ate a piece of chocolate? you never ever had a beer? you ate every single day for years the same cereal, you never ever had an other meal that food court?More realistic to say HKD2500 or thereabout.

[GeoTommy]

Many years ago I used to do

Do you remember which year exactly? What's your spending for 2018?

Lunch at Harbour City Foodcourt: HKD50

If you work or live near a cooked food market, you can still get a decent lunch for under HK$50, even in 2018.

[jonathan.lo]

Friend rice at local place?

[cookie09]

Yeah but you need to add all the extras here and there (you never ever ate a piece of chocolate? you never ever had a beer? you ate every single day for years the same cereal, you never ever had an other meal that food court?More realistic to say HKD2500 or thereabout.

Honestly I didn't spend much more back then. I even remember the debate about the price of taking the MTR or the bus 2a from quarry Bay to Central (I think one was hkd2.30 and the other hkd4)

[cookie09]

Do you remember which year exactly? What's your spending for 2018?.

That was in 2000 for about 5 months.

Now I spend closer to 15k per month...