So about how much money should I have to my name to make the $250 purchase of the 4% as a total splurge curiosity spend not undue risk? I'm finding myself very taken with the hype Nike has cooked up and wanted to vaguely feel like Kipchoge when I'm running (I feel embarrassed even typing that). However I feel like nearly a months rent for something I could wear once and hate would be pretty stupid.
I've wearing various Newtons for years
Where can I rent a place for $250/month?*
*asking for a friend
280, shitty off campus area of a major university
Can you get a little more specific? Is this like Mississippi?
Middle aged hobby jogger wrote:
Can you get a little more specific? Is this like Mississippi?
That level of rent is fairly common in any place that is not dominated by a fast money industry (silicon valley, stock market, celebrities). In Mississippi, that might even be the normal rent in some cities.
(I'm assuming this is the rent cost for a bedroom in a 2-bedroom aprtment or house. To have the entire place to yourself would be like $400-600 on average in many of the cities I've seen)
This 4 year old article has the cheapest 10 cities in the US pegged at 620-720 in rent for a 1-br, so roughly 2-3x the range quoted here. Median is quoted at 1200 or so. Again 4 years old data.
So we're talking rural Kentucky I imagine? Nowhere near employment centers? Aka nowhere?
Hey poor guy, just save up the money and order them when they come out at Running Warehouse or directly from Nike. They both have great return policies, so if you don't like them, just send them back and get your rent back.
So you can't really afford the shoes, but want them anyways...hmmmm...
Either don't pay you rent (after all, who cares about a decent roof over your head when you are rocking the latest kicks...aka what I call the "Air Jordan Shoe Moron Theory")
or
You pay your rent, continue to have a decent place to live but don't have the latest and greatest gimmick that will have a margin-able impact on your life and running.
Choose wisely my friend.
Thanks for the input- I didn't know about the running warehouse/return policy. I figured once they hit the road there is no return. For a little clarification, it's not a matter of being able to pay rent, got about 5-6k in the bank, but I do live very frugally and am not prone to buying the latest gimmicks; the 4% is just so intriguing to me.
I also avoid pavement as much as possible so I would expect the 4% to only a race/occasional tempo or interval shoe anyways.
Also I'm in Ohio