PHOTO: STUFF Journalist Debrin Foxcroft is giving up on the extra expenses as she saves for a house deposit.
OPINION: The re-growth in my bleach blonde hair is probably about seven centimetres.
Not quite enough to replicate Britney Spears right before her early 2000s meltdown, but getting pretty close.
What my hair says, what my choices are saying, is that I have finally joined the thousands of Kiwis chasing their elusive dream.
I am saving for a house deposit
I am not quite at the point of eating just beans and rice, like Daniel, a Manhattan corporate lawyer earning $US270,000 a year, who told the New York Post that he lives in New Jersey to avoid city taxes, lives on basic food staples, owns one patched-together suit per weekday for work, and layers up during the winter instead of turning the heat on.
But I’m also learning to give up a lot of things that I took for granted in the past, including extra entertainment, shopping, random car trips and expensive hair care.
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