My chaotic money diary shows I spent €5,000 on therapy last year
Emer McLysaght: I’ve promised myself I’ll go through my subscriptions and ditch at least a third. Photograph: iStock
If the sausage in this clumsy metaphor is a spicy mix of my accumulated expenses, then the main ingredients are: My rent – more for a one-bedroom flat than any of my friends are paying in mortgages for their multi-bedroom family homes, the swines. Utilities – the cost of which seem more made up as the months go on. I swear I could go off grid and my electricity bill would still go up by €47 euro, which I would be informed of in a jaunty email I’d read on stolen Starbucks wifi. The car.
One of the most jarring numbers that leapt out of my rudimentary spreadsheet was the €5,000 I spent last year on private therapy. My therapist was excellent, don’t get me wrong . It was confronting though, to see it all totted up. One-sixth of a house deposit. One-third of a second-hand 2017 Nissan Qashqai. “Two weeks in a very nice all-inclusive in Mexico, flights and all,” as I carped to a friend, who reminded me that good mental health is priceless.
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