What I Spend In A Week In NYC

Welcome Back! I tracked my spending for a week as a 27 year-old working in Tech living in New York City Area.
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0:00 - Intro
0:21 - Sunday
1:51 - Monday
3:22 - Tuesday
3:56 - Wednesday
5:32 - Thursday
6:21 - Friday
7:27 - Saturday
7:58 - Outro
BUSINESS INQUIRIES
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[@Bukola1]

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you enjoyed the video

[@MonicaSoyemi]

Great video!! I'm a Nigerian here in NY as well, would love to meet!

[@UnpopularOpinionByNkiruka]

Working for Google is epic!

[@Jfroosevelt]

Love it 💯🙌🏽

[@CindyAlexius]

I always love when you do these types of personal finance vids, sis. Although my company doesn't offer the epic level of food you get as a Googler, what they do provide does save me quite a bit. Bloomberg provides breakfast and lunch with unlimited snacks. I'll take it! Thanks for sharing as usual. Cheers!

[@Bukola1]

Are you Bloomberg nyc? The office views are amazing 😱

[@heyyyyyy2546]

That’s amazing! Absolute goals after graduation 👩‍🎓

[@CindyAlexius]

@@Bukola1 Yes ma'am. Yes the 29th flr pantry has epic views. I feel like I'm attending Harvard working there. I was surprised by the level of support you get for your role and help advancing your role. Me loves. Thanks for the response. I feel honored :P

[@CindyAlexius]

@@Bukola1 Also, any recommendations for hairstylist would be GREATLY appreciated.

[@Bukola1]

No problem! I recommend for knotless box braid she's professional and fast instagram.com/1755braids/

[@msdeenatural_3]

My mouth dropped when she said she spent $370 for her hair ouch!!! I love these types of videos. Knowing me free food would keep me working at the office. Lol 😂

[@anaroman1499]

Yea that's a bit much. I do my own hair now and save thousands of dollars.

[@nauticdixons]

I was just in Nigeria, that's a $3.70 braids there. No comparison with the amenities though just thought to share.

[@MO-ss5mj]

419 scam 😂

[@kw1109]

She got scammed. I’m a black girl those braids worth under $200 for length and no human hair included

[@GlowinginTech]

love to see you spending time with other black women in tech! great video keep glowing

[@justinebailey5333]

Right yasssssss

[@whataretheauds7]

Yeah I love it so much. I was like YASSS QUEENS

[@gentakaca]

LOVE this type of content , Seeing how other people live their daily Lives and work in a field I’m not in 😍

[@Bukola1]

Thanks for leaving a comment, I really enjoy making these type of videos!

[@irenedavo3768]

Please research Jigger Victimd

[@YouCanCallMeChrys]

As a black woman the hair struggle is real, that's why I got locs. The best decision! I also self retie which saves me A LOT of money. I'm on my second set and have been locked for over 10 years if you combine the two sets. I love your videos, currently transitioning into Tech right now and I'm so excited.

[@gc377]

Finally a blogger thats relatable!! Im a 28 yr old living in the bay area working in tech, I'm filipino and I'm super mindful of my finances too! You are EXTREMELY relatable. I spend like ~$130 every 3-4 weeks for my lash extensions so I totally understand too about splurging on my beauty so that I can focus on other tasks on my day to day. Why am I only finding you nowww *instant subsribe!*

[@christjohn7372]

Nice. I am also Filipino and currently studying CS. I am a freshman student and hoping to work outside in the Philippines specifically in the US soon!

[@grainofsalt2113]

the editing has elevated so much!

[@Bukola1]

Thank you 🙏🏿

[@abrahamowos]

370!!! As a guy, I need to learn how to make braids then!

[@eraserewrite]

I adore these types of videos so much. You don’t even know. I’ve been following you since the beginning. You’ve legitimately inspired me to make so many improvements in tech and finance. Your ability to shift my perspective was amazing before, but when I saw the brand of rice cooker, you’re a goddess now.

[@yedasophia7972]

I LOVED THIS! Also ur so kind and generous spending money for your friends and family to celebrate their little wins! We love a kind and generous queen

[@Martina-er9bj]

Not the pop-tart in the back pocket 😂 That Google food looks good! Free company meals are such a $ saver

[@sabineisrael]

Quick, accurate and effective video. Love it😌🤗

[@MissEmizer]

Notification gang 🙌🏽👌🏾 love your vlogs. So refreshing to watch in the morning 🇿🇦

[@rotienoxoxo]

I love these videos. This is not bad at all!! It's so hard to avoid all socializing and eating out just for the sake of saving money. I try to explain this to people who don't live here but they don't get it lol. I also like that you included the bit on hair braiding!! Wow, thats expensive!! I think I throw my money into buying clothes and accessories but do my own hair. Sheesh. Definately costs to live in NJ/NY!! I'm still trying to figure it out and actually save money 😪

[@thinktransnational]

This inspires me to want to meal prep when I finally move. I'm not big on cooking for one or at home, but you make it look quick, easy, and fun.

[@whome4860]

Your hair style is amazing!! Love it 🥰

[@ninanegedu]

Just found your channel and I’m already in love🥰

[@alyssagirgis4892]

Your videos are always informative, refreshing, & unproblematic not like the rest of KZbin. Love the chill vibe 😌

[@T0MBRA1D3RR]

It must be SO HARD to save in NYC! Great vid 👍 I have been watching some of your old videos and I love all the upgrades you've made to your content 😊

[@farflunghopes]

Loved this! So realistic and the video was so calming

[@erikajohnson5663]

Love these type of videos and your hair looks amazing 🥰

[@________1516]

I was going to ask about your hair and you covered it in today’s video!! I love your hair! It always looks so nice! Your stylist did a great job!

[@MsMarmima]

Your kitchen is so nice! I love the grill!!!

[@jessiz-]

💖 Thank you for sharing! It's fun seeing your adventures around NYC. Your friends are cute too! I think you've got a healthy balance of going out for socializing and enjoying the WFH life. I'm also working in tech remotely, thinking about moving to NYC for a short period of time. By chance, I actually visited that very Sant Ambroeus a few months ago! 💖

[@shaythedime3126]

I love how realistic your videos are 💕💕💕

[@styledosage784]

loved the editing of this! and so enjoyable to watch ^^

[@Bukola1]

Thank you!!

[@dalayneygirl8059]

Your hair looks gorgeous ❤ I absolutely love places of work that feed their employees. So much stress is relieved when you don't have to worry about food and hair. 🤣

[@financebae]

Just found your channel through this video ! I love seeing what others spend their money on 😩😂 Had to subscribe 💕

[@Plan2Code]

👑 energy 💯

[@Bukola1]

❤️❤️❤️

[@cccwashere]

You and your friends are so sweet together! Love the video. I’m not in the US but I love personal finance topics.

[@RodrigoGarciactg]

Great video Bukola!

[@megannyabawa3369]

I love love your personal finance videos! Thank you

[@kayp9318]

This video sparked joy for me 🥰

[@donayah]

New to the channel I absolutely loved this! About to binge your content brb

[@pf3820]

I love it when you make these videos!

[@kimbrown7908]

I'm so ready to start seeing where my money is going. I can't lie, I'm nervous but it's definitely needed 😌

[@katsweeterly2039]

Love offices, hate commute, full-remote is my vibe ♥

[@sadeiofficial]

The food is 💕🤌🏾 Loved the video and all the adventures! Aloha 🤙🏾 from Hawai’i 🧘🏽‍♀️🌿

[@ninawestlake14]

I'm new here. My first introduction of you was in "Make It" here on youtube as well. Enjoyed watching! Was fun and informative.

[@elisabethwaldron3192]

Hello from Virginia, love your vids!!! I am a black bi-racial woman trying to get into tech (minoring in undergrad) and hopefully getting into a master's program!!! Thanks for being as transparent as possible about your work/life as a black woman in engineering! It means a lot❤... Keep doing you girl!

[@irenedavo3768]

Please watch Jim Nduruchi

[@christinar8419]

Love these videos. I just got my hair braided, it feels so good not to have to bother with it. I need my company to get on board with the food lol.

[@maryanyah]

Love the video! and your hair looks beautiful 🥰

[@Bukola1]

Thank you so much!!

[@maryanyah]

@@Bukola1 🥰 you're welcome.

[@Msfili]

looove the hair before and after are fabulous

[@MelloneeKecia]

Love these types of videos ❤️

[@Bukola1]

Glad you like them! They are my favorite to make :)

[@toyshiajohnson8604]

Living your best life young , Black, and gifted!enjoy…no apologies needed 🥰👍🏽

[@innocentmadanhire2391]

Oh this is cool..meetimg up with Jhilene Walker...so cool!

[@imaphoenix7692]

i loove your content. ✨🥰

[@felixc.programs8209]

Always love your new videos! Your content really inspires me to keep producing informative tech/programming/data science content on my new KZbin channel myself. Regards :)

[@HollijoyJohnson]

Food & Technology Cool😊 loving your hair 😍

[@Ngbhsolo]

Fire content as always! Thanks for the chat two weeks ago🙏🏾

[@stefonsimmons7178]

great vid once again! you could check to see if your company gives you discounts on movies. they prob do!

[@michellemash1377]

I stumbled to your channel and I’m glad I did 🙌🏽🥰 I need to write down all my daily expenses and bills, don’t think I ever did.

[@eshadiva6600]

Your braid looks great. And this was a good video as we all know "budget is life" lol as my Jamaican dad would say lol

[@ptaylor9107]

Reminds me of my Nyc expenses…commuting from NJ to Wall Street to work….I moved to TX! No regrets

[@KO.42]

The hair looks good on you. I think you should try out goddess braids next time, they would look good on you too!

[@fantasimms]

I love that Google provides free food for you guys. I work in BioTech in the Bay Area not far from Google and my company is huge and we don't get ANYTHING free with them :(

[@dongshuowu3454]

So jealous seeing your chef kitchen

[@VickyMei]

Did you get an new camera 👀 the footage looks crips !! 💕 also love this kinda videos 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@AndrewHitti]

Such a fun video!! Love to see a girl who can grill!!! 🔥🍗🍖🔥 your friend is so funny too!

[@elsonxcode]

You spent twice my monthly allowance in a week. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I have to stop being student and start making money. Great video

[@jensdeclassifiedtechsurviv5924]

Gurl I feel ya on the hair, I have naturally thick curly frizzy hair and tryna tame it everyday is alot of time which adds up. I get a brazilian blowout every few months and its so worth it! Time is money and it saves me so many hours multiply by my hourly rate…yeah a couple hundred dollars sounds like a lot but really isn’t when you factor in how much time and stress it saves. Just wake up, shower, and thats it. Straight hair ladies got it good 😭

[@emmy1546]

Thanks Bukky for your ever enriching content. I gotta ask, did you do the voice over for the "Google Primer" app ad?

[@FranMariee]

Love the video. Would also love to see a Graham Stephen reaction video!

[@LemonGreenism]

Braids look 🔥🔥🔥 😍

[@lhlogo]

Your hair looks gorgeous

[@soyamachukwuezugo366]

Bukola can you do a skin care vlog. Your skin is looking amazing

[@katsweeterly2039]

Graham needs to see this 😍

[@100Stratusfiedx]

I’m sooo late, but yeah girl the hair care is a huge expense. That’s whether you braid, wear it natural, or wear wigs. I can only hope that I get a job great enough to provide free meals.

[@MsShabriaGxo]

I definitely feel you on hair.

[@heyyyyyy2546]

YES! 🙌🏽❤️

[@Bukola1]

🙌🙌

[@iamashleyyvette]

Yesss! I’ve been looking for a young black woman who vlogs in New York ❤️❤️❤️

[@craigwiggins8287]

I absolutely enjoyed your video!!! Thank you for sharing your experience with your budget living in an urban city like New York and New Jersey..

[@whitneybrown4067]

This is Gonna b so Good🔥🔥🔥👍….

[@favournumonde8552]

I love the camera quality of ur video.. Nice

[@Bukola1]

Thank you so much 😀

[@tonishataylor9065]

I love these types of videos along with your personal finance videos. I think the hair looks great and some people may balk at the price but as someone who used to get braids, there is NOTHING like finding a stylist who can do it QUICKLY and give you the style you want is rare lol. You've actually inspired me to take my background in academic medicine and make a switch to tech (currently taking UX research and design courses). Keep up the great work, your channel really means a lot!

[@zucchinigreen]

I would rather pay for quality customer service and efficiency vs cheaper option+ hours of time wasted any day.

[@katsweeterly2039]

Yeah keep it going, UX is amazing ♥

[@vetgirl71]

I stopped taking my daughter to the beauty parlor. I box braid or cornbraid my teen daughter’s hair , she is a college freshman and it saves her time since she is a full time student. Otherwise I taught her how to upkeep her natural hair and make sure it stays healthy. KZbin content creators like you are a blessing because you share such insightful information. I get all my braiding techniques from KZbinrs and save thousands of dollars!

[@lushanoalexandre8138]

It will never not shock me how pricey it is to do our hair in the USA 😣 I am in Germany and your hairstyle would cost under 100eur. In South Africa it would not even be $50. This is the first video that I have watched from your page and now that I am interested in getting into tech, I'll definitely be watching more 😊😊

[@katsweeterly2039]

Southern Germany here, not 4c hair, but 200 euros = 200 dollars, for cut and color, I happily pay in Aveda salons for ethical products and fair wages. Love to see black empowered tech folks ♥ ♥ ♥

[@JohannyM]

Wow, I'm so jealous you only spend 67 at Wholefoods?! Every time I go there I end up spending so much!

[@WillyMakend]

I enjoyed 😃

[@satsala4198]

You look so beautiful with any hair❤

[@Bukola1]

Thank you so much, you are so kind!

[@damilolabakare8160]

Hi Bukola. If I may ask, how do you create time to learn or improve your Tech Skills?

[@RayneRain77]

Hey girl! Where’d you get your hair done? I’ve been trying to find a good braided in the nyc area for the longest 😭

[@TFlowers]

Your hair looks beautiful. I wear braids also, I wouldn't trade wearing them for the world. That's so cool how you can eat free at work. I'm subscribing!!!!!

[@Bukola1]

Thank you so much 🤗

[@InTheGlow135]

Can you do a jerk chicken coconut rice recipe? Lol you should probably do recipe videos to help people save and eat well! Your videos are always perfect and this one was no exception!

[@janetgriffin7779]

If it hadn’t been for the braids, you would have been really good tbh. What you spent in dollars just saved you so much time so the trade off is worth it. NYC is expensive, especially eating out. I live in JC as well and love walking around. Found a place called Grind that has really amazing coffee and pastries.

[@darcipeeps]

Short & sweet :-)

[@andreabailey676]

I use to live in a big city and then moved back home to my small city. I missed the big city until I realized it just a lot of places to spend money. Since I like to travel, my small city is okay for me.

[@theresaanderson6528]

300 is a lot for what she got. You can get braids cheaper than that. It depends on where you go what neighborhood. I am sure she can get them cheaper in the bronx or brooklyn in certain parts of harlem, but she has a stylist that she likes who is fast and she doesn't have to spend hours at the salon waiting and she can afford to pay those prices, but believe me most of us cannot so there are definitely more affordable options out there especially for the style she got for less then 300+ bucks but maybe the neighborhood wouldn't be as nice or a little sketchy or an area she is familiar with. The type of hair is also a factor in the price. Is it human or synthetic, etc. But the time it saves black women on doing hair is priceless so i don't blame her for paying to get her hair done the way she likes it and it lasts for several weeks so its worth it. I wore my natural hair braided for 15 + years but got tired of them braiding my hair so tight and saw how many women were walking around in a few years looking like space aliens with no edges from alopecia around the edges from those styles some women's foreheads start an inch or 2 back from hair loss. I switch ed to locks and have been wearing them for 12 years. I recently cut them to my mid back because they grew down to my waist and were starting to get heavy. Best decision i every made my edges are intact and the style is practically maintenance free except when it's time to wash and retwist and i found a stylist who only charges 90 to 100 dollars to retwist my hair. A special style is more maybe 20 more but it's worth it since i only go to see her every 5 to 6 wks. In a few more years because i want no maintenance hair I plan to do a big chop and have a super short afro. The young lady is very inspirational i am glad i happened across her channel have been sharing it with others. Loved seeing those other young black women in tech as well.

[@keithwisdom1663]

Short fro and no worries

[@dlove2830]

Virgil's BBQ is gooooood!!!

[@SephoraRothschild]

Hi Bukola! If you feel comfortable, could you please update the description with your square footage, rent, and utilities? Thanks!

[@atypicalfrenchy]

The braids came out really cute! Which salon did you go to?

[@gabrielfono844]

I really luv your video I have been in the USA for 5 years I have been working as software engineer the last three months is pretty amazing Love from your black dude from Virginia

[@gabrielfono844]

@⓵⓼⓪⓸⓹⓻⓵⓪⓻⓼⓼textme. bro your channel has no subscribers

[@Msfili]

i would take some containers to the office and bring some food home lol kinda like taking the toiletries home at a hotel lol

[@OneTakeTuber]

Whew the money you'd save with locs! 👏🏿

[@IcedLipGloss]

aww i went to HS with naia....she's always been smart af lol

[@charleecobb3203]

Loved this!! NYC is getting so dang extensive🤧. Also, do you (or anyone in the comments) have advice on making friends in NYC? I'm in the software engineering world and live in Brooklyn but it's been hard for me to meet other women of color in this field.

[@heyhey3789]

I have no advice for this because I have a hard time too. Lol As a black woman especially, I felt so happy for her (& a bit jealous) when she & her black girlfriends met up on Monday. I think being in your 20s (or older) post Covid, it’s so hard to make friends. We need a black girl meet up. And then a girlies in engineering meet up in general. Lol I live in the New York City area as well (north Jersey) and I’m a civil engineer. I forgot whether or not Bukola had a discord. Not sure tho and not sure if the topic of meet ups would be on there

[@EvanTempleton]

Do you have a grill in your kitchen??

[@3684marie1]

Where did you get your hair done? I'm looking for a place.

[@Keturah.]

Bilingual Spanish and French how omg that’s amazing

[@michelewilliams2920]

Try 125th street in Harlem and there are tons of places in the Bronx that can braid your hair. And they do excellent work. And you’ll pay no more than $130.

[@joyblessing2011]

Yes, this is the comment I was looking for. I live in NYC and never paid as much for the same style. Definitely paid $180 at most.

[@michelewilliams2920]

@@joyblessing2011 $350 is outrageous to paid for braids and you have shops on every corner. No stylist can justify charging that outrageous price .

[@joyblessing2011]

@@michelewilliams2920 I totally agree with you