Challenging myself to a random budget

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The video combines the popular 'budget challenge' format with a relatable, high-energy narrative that keeps viewers engaged through quick cuts and a satisfying, low-cost payoff.

Summary

The creator documents a day of eating on a seven-dollar budget by leveraging office perks and rewards programs. He concludes the day by using a specific credit card benefit to significantly reduce the cost of his dinner.

Structure

1Setting the random budget of seven dollars
2Navigating subway costs and office snack perks
3Using reward points for a free lunch
4Eating extra snacks and desserts
5Frankensteining a dinner meal using a credit card benefit

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Grubhub Amex Gold credit is mentioned as the method used to pay for the final meal.

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Frankensteined dinners are my favorite #budget #challenge IC @Frankie Hoy

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Challenging myself to a random budget Today's budget is Subway: $3 Diet Coke #1: $0 Diet Coke #2: $0 Chipotle: $0 Diet Coke #3: $0 Mini cupcakes: $0 Diet Coke #4: $0 Subway: $3 Baconeggandcheese onarollsaltpepperketchup withahashbrown: $0.82 $0.18 UNDER BUDGET Grubhub Amex Gold

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Challenging myself to a random budget. Today's budget is. Seven bucks. It might not sound that bad, but I had to go to the office today so I had to take the subway there and back for six dollars total, meaning I just had one dollar to get all of my food for the day and couldn't buy anything else. The trade off for paying to go to the office is I get free snacks, so I got a couple ice cold Diet Cokes at 9:00 a.m. Obviously had a very tight budget for lunch, so I had to work some magic. I paid for full price Chipotle seven times last month, and since I use their app to get points and it's the summer of extras, that means that I got an entire bowl for free, which obviously I paired with another ice cold crispy Diet Coke. I gave the honey chipotle chicken one last shot since it's the premium protein and I was getting the bowl for free either way, but it's just not my Al Pastor. I washed down lunch with a couple desserts, A.K.A. these two little mini cupcakes. I'm gonna be so real, I honestly ate four of these, I just didn't video them. One thing about me, if there is free food in front of me, I am going to overeat. Escape the office to breathe some not so fresh air right now. For dinner, I still had a dollar to spare, but that really can only get you so much in New York City. I ordered this hash brown from my local Bodega and it looked exactly like a McDonald's one. And I decided to Frankenstein that with a bacon, egg and cheese on a roll, salt, pepper, ketchup. This entire meal came out to a total of ten dollars and eighty two cents. But only gonna cost me 82 cents cause I use my ten dollar Grubhub Amex Gold credit.