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Week Two
Indie Scenester Husband-to-Be reports $200 for a hotel room, and $10 for antibacterial sex-toy cleaner. Indie Scenester Wife-to-Be reports $98.53 for steak and wine at The Keg and $73.43 for "a longer whip and nipple clamps."
Week Two Total: $381.96
Total to Date: $381.96
Granola Sunshine says, "I've been in the bush, so this week is pretty lame. $30 for face products from The Body Shop, cooling avocado washes and toners; trying to look good and keep my skin young. $30 for ingredients for lunch I made for a date. $40 for an airport cab because I was so busy being schmoopy with my lunch date that I missed the bus."
Week Two Total: $100.00. (She adds: "How about money I didn't spend? I didn't spend $10 on glow-in-the-dark reflectors for my bike because a guy I'm interested in thought they were lame.")
Total to Date: $212.00
For a friend's birthday party with flirting potential, Coffee Yupster reports $12 for cover charge and $50 on booze. However: "Overall, this night was a mistake. I was still devastatingly hungover from the kegger the night before." This week is quieter than last. $4 on coffee, because "I wanted to see the barista near my work." The next day, Coffee spends $60 on dinner and drinks at "a sexy bar with a Lavalife date. Good time. Have a second date planned." Later in the week, $20 for sushi: "Dinner with an old fuck buddy, hoping to rekindle. She's seeing someone." The next day, $20 spent on drinks with the intention of "getting a look at some waitstaff."
Week Two Total: $166.00
Total to Date: $379.00
Biology Babe reports a gym visit "just for him" at a cost of $9. Two days later: "Discovered that my face looked horrible. Bought acne cream and special lotion": $18. Later, Biology reports, "Went to the gym. Yes, for him." $9. The next day: "Sent him one text. $0.05." And, "Gym. Him." Another $9.
Week Two Total: $45.05
Total to Date: $77.43
I Love the Nightlife spends $5 on cover charge for a gay night at his local bar, and $10 on cover at another bar for himself and "some guy." $20 bought drinks at the first bar, while "that guy" paid for the drinks at the second spot. Late in the week, Nightlife spent $50 on a t-shirt at a store owned by a man he likes. In preparation for a (sleepy?) date, he spent $15 on a bottle of wine and $20 on Valium. The day after, $10 for a cab ride to a friend's house, explicitly for sex: "It was his birthday. That was his present." Two days later, $20 for drinks at queer dance night, and the next day, $20 on his gay.com membership renewal.
Week Two Total: $170.00
Total to Date: $330.00
Long-Distance Cougar again spent nothing while her younger boyfriend bought groceries, booze, condoms and "other sex-related hygiene products [like] razors and dental floss."
Week Two Total: $0.00
Total to Date: $0.00
The Dude drops $9.99 on Straight Outta High School. $47.99 goes to a Fan Expo Deluxe Pass, because The Dude says this convention has "an abundance of costumed, scantily-clad female rebels. If sci-fi fans can't find an alternative girl here, they're just not trying." A yearlong SuicideGirls.com membership costs him $30. "I also write for them, so I get the best of both worlds by interviewing celebrities while looking at naked girls with piercings and tattoos." The Dude goes on to say, "Speaking of that, I'm writing an article on 'devotees' (people who are sexually attracted to disability). I'd be lying if I said I wasn't prospecting for my own cerebral palsy devotee, so all reporting expenses, especially coffee or food expenses ($5.99 and $37.99, respectively) are a subtle effort to score."
Week Two Total: $131.96
Total to Date: $150.94
Mom of Two reports nothing for this week. She reflects on her situation, saying, "It was easier to coordinate date nights and sex spending before we had the second child. Two kids is an insane amount of work, as we are now on the losing end of the parent-to-child ratio. We are so exhausted between working and child-minding that we just fall into bed at the end of the day, knowing that some part of us is missing, but too exhausted to really work ourselves into a panic over it. Between daycare costs and home renos, there just isn't a lot of extra money right now to put into new clothes and beauty treatments that would make us feel that little oomph it takes to get things buzzing. Interestingly, my husband was just prescribed (by our doctor) one hour of alone time with me a week. Let's see if that improves things. We've sadly become the cliche, no matter how hard we try to fight it. We are still attracted to one another, but the resentment that builds up over who didn't do which task, etc., tends to be a real mood killer. Spending money on going out helps us to make time to sit across from one another and really look at each other — something you forget to do after a decade together. A meal, for example, takes time, so you are forced to talk about more than just who's picking the kids up from school."
Week Two Total: $0.00
Total to Date: $265.00
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