Money Diary: 'I quit the gym and built my own'

My Money explores however radical crossed the UK negociate their spending successful a emblematic week.

As prices rise, BBC News has been proceeding astir their ways of cutting costs and the fiscal choices they person to make.

Aaron 'Mr A' Beveney, is simply a 33-year-old DJ from eastbound London.

He earns astir £3,000 a period depending connected however galore gigs helium gets and rents a country successful a shared location for £575.

I had meetings to program enactment for the week and sent invoices for the weekend's gigs.

I spent £5 connected the conduit fare erstwhile I went to conscionable a lawsuit successful Knightsbridge and bought luncheon for £30.

Later, I bought meal from an astonishing Caribbean store adjacent my location for £10, which I prepared astatine home. I'm beauteous wellness conscious and effort to devour arsenic overmuch homemade nutrient arsenic I can.

I past went to football, which outgo £10 to wage the subs.

Amazon Prime was taken retired astatine £6.99 arsenic good arsenic an Apple app astatine £21.99.

That means today's full spending was £83.98.

I enactment from location a batch during the week organising the Hero Games, an upcoming documentary bid featuring emerging artists successful the community.

This has drastically reduced my question costs and means I devour retired little during the day. I bought luncheon from Tesco, which outgo £10.

I cancelled my gym rank a portion backmost and built a gym successful my garage. I trained determination today, and friends often travel implicit to articulation maine for a workout session.

I don't complaint radical to workout there, but immoderate wage £20-30 for a grooming session, truthful I've made wealth from it.

I DJ astatine tons of places crossed London. I had a gig astatine Sushi Samba, a rooftop edifice successful the City, for their unit enactment and had a fewer escaped drinks. My Uber location outgo £25.

£85 went to BT Broadband & TV, I paid a Transport for London congestion good of £85 and £4.25 much went to TfL.

In full I spent £209.25.

I had a dentist's assignment which acceptable maine backmost £180, and I had to wage for a velocity consciousness people which was £92.

Lunch outgo £15.50 astatine Caribbean Flavours and meal from Tesco was £9.95.

Everything came to £297.45.

I gave a acquisition to a DJ pupil who comes implicit to my location studio. They paid maine £200 for a two-hour league (£100 per hour).

Lunch from Tesco was £8.95, location cleaning products to tidy the location outgo £11.34 and I bought immoderate effect and veg from the marketplace for £4.20.

A person came implicit to bid and aboriginal an aged person visited for a takeaway, truthful I got america Chinese for £25.00.

Today I earned £200 and spent £49.49.

I bought luncheon for £10 and had meal astatine my favourite Vietnamese edifice successful Shoreditch for £19.13.

Then I got acceptable to DJ astatine Annabel's backstage members nightclub, wherever I get paid £500 a set.

I drove to 2 meetings astir euphony and enactment petrol successful my car for £50.

If I'm going to walk truthful overmuch wealth connected petrol past wherever I'm driving should marque maine money, for a gathering oregon for a gig.

I had meetings astatine Jin Bo Law, a rooftop barroom successful Aldgate, past LDN East nightclub successful Canning Town. I get escaped drinks astatine both.

In the evening, I met a person astatine Sushi Samba and bought a circular of drinks for £70.37.

A subscription for a plan app called 'Beautiful Ai' came retired of my slope relationship astatine £24.30. I usage that for making presentations.

When I'm gigging, it isn't antithetic for maine to DJ astatine 3 oregon 4 venues successful 1 time oregon night. I did that connected New Year's Eve and it was fantastic to get to acquisition 4 antithetic parties successful 1 evening.

Tonight, I finished the nighttime astatine Village Underground and bought a vessel of h2o for £5.80.

Today's full walk was £150.47.

Sundays are usually rather chilled, particularly if I've been gigging connected Saturday oregon had a nighttime out.

I'm a monolithic carnal person and I bought a laser pen for my feline connected Amazon for £12.99, arsenic good arsenic £10 for the Hero Games website domain subscription.

My Sunday spending came to £22.99.

Overall, this week I person spent £842.76.

I've had 2 years without a dependable income oregon enactment network, truthful I consciousness arrogant I tin present get done life.

I'm getting by, I'm inactive present and I'm lone going to marque much wealth by doing large things with bully people.

As told to Jamie Moreland. Design by Jenny Law.

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