What I spend as a 25-year-old in the Czech Republic

Michaela K
5 min readFeb 1, 2021

I really enjoyed watching the videos of “What I spend as a XX year old in XXX” that has been going around on YouTube a few months back. I personally do have a rough idea of what I spend in a month but I thought it would be interesting to break it down into weeks, as well as calculate any annual payments that are not typically done every week.

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What is important to say is that I split all of those expenses with my husband, so technically, everything should be divided by two. We do not divide these costs between us, since it is serving both of us, but I would like to put it up as a disclaimer.

As I said in the beginning, I am going to cover both fixed expenses that occur either monthly (like electricity) or annually (like taxes), as well as variable expenses, such as food.

Fixed expenses = $231.35 pw

In the fixed expenses category, I have included housing and utilities, insurance, car and subscriptions. Because I am employed, my taxes are deducted before my salary reaches me, so I don't need to worry about those.

Housing and utilities = $170 pw

We have recently purchased our first home so we have switched from paying rent to paying a mortgage, insurance and our own bills. The fun thing is that…

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