Can You Afford Your Friends?

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/20 ... 624948007/

Social things...

As a retired senior I spend only $120 on green fees each month to play golf.
Towns in Connecticut offer significant discounts to resident seniors so they don't sell their houses and move to Florida.

I could afford going out with friends if i wanted to but I save for retirement instead. The stock market is more important to me than spending money on friends.

Lololz,, this is obvious, as a whole many many Asperger/Autistics almost naturally have few friends .

"No."

And why should I?
Thankfully in my case, friendships itself are optional...



I'll talk about my mom about on what I observe about this;
She has a LOT of them, like 2-3 different circles of them (at least two she created) at least 3-4 main each, mixing and matching them.

Even my mom drains her own savings over her own friends every other month or so.

Really, really did seriously considered the need to discuss with my sister if our mom needs a separate "socialization fund".
Even said it out loud plenty of times over it.

Plenty of people have friends and they don't always have to waste a lot of cash

We also tend to have less money than NTs so we would have more problems affording various social activities if we wanted to go.

Looking at this article, it appears that a lot of folks feel obliged to go to fancy restaurants and bars, given how much money they spend per week at these places.

My own social spending has revolved around diners and other relatively inexpensive restaurants, and I usually order some of the lowest-priced stuff on the menu.

Apparently in many culturally mainstream social circles there is pressure to be a big spender. My own social life has always revolved around oddball groups where there was no such pressure.

I don't know.
I'm not interested in the kind of socialization suggested by the statistics in the article.

The question is: can you monetize a friendship?
To live like this, you have to spend money.

At most, you can have very few friends in a lifetime.

The others are acquaintances with whom you share something; for the very latest generations, it's almost essential.

It costs a lot, and you get very little from situations like this.

Personally: I do things because I like them; otherwise, it's an imposition.

The answer is no, and I wouldn't even want to afford them.

I'm an aspiring actor and my other friend who's a waitress and friend who's a masseuse cant afford our richer friends ideas like concerts and expensive restaurants. One is a chef of a restaurant the other a palaeontologists and the other works in data processing

I like eating out a lot due to being a picky eater who cant cook but I really like fast food & pizza. It is nice eating out with my girlfriend or my parents or a friend but we almost never ate at fancy resturants. The only bar me & Cass go to is a pizza bar & I'll drink one beer & a couple cokes & Cass will get a couple sodas & might drink a little of my beer. We'll get a couple things besides pizza like fries & onion rings. I'll pig out & won't each much else that day except cereal for one meal. We'll split a large pizza & we each bring a couple slices home & Cass will bring some fries home that we'll eat the next day. We'll spend like $80 after tip. We only go there maybe every couple months. Otherwise we may eat out once or twice a month at a fast food place.We eat out less than we used to partly due to the cost & inconvenience. We don't really go to any other places for recreation except the county fair.

You know, in Milan I've seen very rich people.
One was a normal Massimo Moratti.
I had just given one euro to a beggar.

Then he came out of an office in a Moratti building. His assets are $2 billion.
But that's only what he personally declares in Italy.
His family manages $200 billion.

You know, he passed me very close, so much so that he almost touched me with his arm.

Then he passed by the beggar.

It was as if he hadn't seen him.

After two seconds, he put his hands in his pocket, and I didn't see the banknote he gave him.

Because I thought: so it's not like they tell us.

Instead, he put his right hand in his pocket, took out some paper money that almost no one keeps these days, and without looking at what he was giving him, he brought it closer to him.

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So I wasn't interested in his wealth, and if he dropped his wallet, I would have called him and given it back, even if he were very rich.

Then in life, it's people that matter.

For him, that's a person.

Afterward, like in a movie, he stood up, smiling, and looked at me: "See, I told him, 'I brought you luck!'" "

He smiled at me and left immediately.

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Moratti then went to dinner at a super-luxury restaurant.

I saw him enter with very powerful people.
Who I've only seen on TV before!
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Well! You live as you can afford.
And when you become successful as an actress (I have this feeling) and maybe earn a lot of money...

Always remember to never forget your past.
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I understand that other people spend a lot of money easily, but for you it might be a problem to make it to the end of the month and save money.
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Concerts for a few people appeal to me too.

They're culture.

Restaurants, I'm allergic to almost everything anyway!

But even there, sports stars, singers who are millionaires in euros, even billionaires come.

A relative of mine who is a sommelier works there.

The cheapest wine he recommended was like $500 a bottle.

These people live in a very flashy world.

In the case of your friends, they're people who use their minds, but there are people who are worthless, who don't even have a soul inside, empty people.

Usually, half a bottle of those wines is left.

They leave it
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On Via Montenapoleone, I saw a saleswoman smile at me while I was trying to look at the prices that weren't there.

A neurotypical friend of mine explained to me why she was smiling.

Because if you look at how much they cost, it automatically means you can't afford them.

The people who go there have very luxury cars, bodyguards, usually Arabs with wives.

They leave them there and then they buy.

But they pay with special cards.

Then they leave under escort.

They get back into their cars and off to their diamond prisons.
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Once I watched three friends pass by.
They were Arabs, they were wearing jewels worth millions of dollars euros.

I looked at their posture and how they were dressed; the scene was beautiful.

I didn't take a photo because I didn't want to disturb anyone.

But they had bodyguards who also looked at me.

I gave them about three meters of space to pass; they were on foot.


Sometimes I see beautiful supermodels.

I didn't look at one in particular on the subway.

We don't tend to look at them.

But she was so unique that someone was looking at her.

At a certain point, she was looking at me.

I looked up for a moment, then looked at my smartphone again.

My friend told me that maybe she was curious because I hadn't even glanced at her.

But, I thought... I would be annoyed by being looked at.

I did the same thing towards her.

She was Eastern European.


Another time, some models not as tall as ours were going to a fashion show, but they were very unique.

I took a photo following the Fibonacci techniques.

The The photo is special.

I chose the group first: everyone.

Then I shot a model of Mongolian ethnicity.

And he's the only one who looked at me.

*In Milan, you never know who took that photo of you, and I used a particular technique.

He knew it.
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A single top-class fashion show is worth thousands of euros to them.
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Chef, paleontologist, and data processing: with those jobs, you can't afford a very comfortable life here: there are plenty of starred chefs.
Data processing: it depends on what you do, otherwise that job is just fairly well paid, paleontologist; a very normal job.

Then it depends on the country where you live and the city.

The parameters change.
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I heard a man say he was sorry that the price of car fuel had gone up.

His car was a Lamborghini.

He said to me, "I'm sorry for the Poor things.

People who can't afford it.

Even if the price goes up 1,000 euros per liter, it's not a problem for me. I also have a Ferrari (I don't know which type: the Ferrari brand makes 1 billion euros a year) and a Maserati.

Then you know, just one simple thing we all use: that's at least 20,000 euros plus installments, down payment, and then you pay the same amount.
at the end of the purchase.

But they are normal machines.
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Only a few individuals access the conditions of two separate worlds, or rather three, in the truly luxurious one
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These things cost a lot.
And they don't give you any sensations.

I log in sometimes and move between them as if I were passing by in a totally distracted manner.

I don't care: but I see that people care and that's fine.

If I pass some streets in the center and there are red carpets, I'll pass by.
The others have to move.

And the red carpets are set for them, I find it funny.
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Armani never passed through Via Montenapoleone.

It gave him a sense of revulsion.