My first couple of years on a full time job I spent all the money i earned, barely making it from paycheck to paycheck (almost always carrying a few hundred dollars in debt), saving nothing, and it was freaking awesome. No room mate, lived in the middle of town, buy any thing I wanted, go out to any place I wanted. I could afford to fly to the States for a week (or even a long weekend) and stay in a nice hotel on a whim just because someone said, "hey come on over we're having a party".

Honestly it was some of the best times of my life, and I'm really glad a I took the chance when I had the chance. Looking back I can only say thank god these sorts of blog posts weren't popular when I was 20 or those years might have been much more dull.

Could be, but I have coworkers that make about the same amount of money as me, yet they're not able to save money. They spend it mostly on clothes, restaurants and bars. Some of them don't even have kids yet they manage to consume their whole paycheck within the month.

There's a lot of shit that adds up. Booze is a serious killer. Cigarettes are goddamn expensive. Clothes pile up in cost...