Well, good morning from Slovenia. As usual, after two weeks spent in the capital city of Ljubljana, I’m sharing my budget.

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In case you are new around here, a few things to keep in mind:

First, I’m working while I’m traveling, which means someone spending all their time enjoying the city, taking day trips, and eating out is likely to spend a lot more.

Second, I fall somewhere in between the extreme budget travelers and the luxury crowd. I don’t stay in hotels (usually) and I don’t couchsurf. This means that while you can easily spend more than I do, you can also easily spend a lot less by always eating in, couchsurfing or staying in cheap hostels or campgrounds.

Third, the below budget is just my day-to-day expenses. It doesn’t include yearly health insurance premiums, business expenses, etc. For details on how I manage those during full-time travel, visit this extensive post.

Okay. Now, onto what I spent on my two weeks in Ljubljana, Slovenia:

Category	Euros	Dollars
Accommodations	376.85	$417
Transportation	37.80	$41.83
Groceries & supplies	170.11	$188.24
Eating/drinking out	119.41	$132.13
Entertainment & activities	0
Luna (vet bills, supplies)	0
Health & wellness	0
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Other	26.80	$29.66
Totals	730.97	$808.86

Notes on my spending:

You’ll notice that my entertainment budget was a 0 this two week period. This is because the activities I did were either free (for example, cycling around town or walking up to the castle early in the morning) or fell under another category (for example, my night at a live jazz performance is under eating/drinking out as it was at a food and drink venue).

As for accommodations, I found my apartment by searching monthly prices on Airbnb and asking owners if they would extend monthly pricing to me for my two week stay (usually weekly prices are based on higher nightly rates). I told owners I would be reviewing their space here on the blog and I had a couple offers. The one I chose was near the park and looked bright and comfortable in its photos (more on that later). With all this in mind, you can probably expect to pay a bit more in high season or pay rates comparable to mine in shoulder or low season.

Finally, a note on eating out. Even though it looks like I held back…I did not. I ate out a lot. The good news is that summer is a time for food festivals in Ljubljana and the prices are spectacular. Six bucks for a gourmet hamburger. Five bucks for a sandwich stuffed with spiced chicken and peppers. And I was fortunate enough to be taken out for a traditional dinner at the most traditional spot in town on my last night…and my wonderful hosts wouldn’t let me pay. Thus, my two week budget for eating and drinking out actually accounts for a lot of meals and still manages to be very reasonable.

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Forty-seven percent of the time, the average mind is wandering. It wanders about a third of the time while a person is reading, talking with other people, or taking care of children. It wanders 10 percent of the time, even, during sex. And that wandering, according to psychologist Matthew Killingsworth, is not good for well-being. A mind belongs in one place. During his training at Harvard, Killingsworth compiled those numbers and built a scientific case for every cliché about living in the moment. In a 2010 Science paper co-authored with psychology professor Daniel Gilbert, the two wrote that 'a wandering mind is an unhappy mind.'

For Killingsworth, happiness is in the content of moment-to-moment experiences. Nothing material is intrinsically valuable, except in whatever promise of happiness it carries. Satisfaction in owning a thing does not have to come during the moment it's acquired, of course. It can come as anticipation or nostalgic longing. Overall, though, the achievement of the human brain to contemplate events past and future at great, tedious length has, these psychologists believe, come at the expense of happiness. Minds tend to wander to dark, not whimsical, places. Unless that mind has something exciting to anticipate or sweet to remember.

Over the past decade, an abundance of psychology research has shown that experiences bring people more happiness than do possessions. The idea that experiential purchases are more satisfying than material purchases has long been the domain of Cornell psychology professor Thomas Gilovich. Since 2003, he has been trying to figure out exactly how and why experiential purchases are so much better than material purchases. In the journal Psychological Science last month, Gilovich and Killingsworth, along with Cornell doctoral candidate Amit Kumar, expanded on the current understanding that spending money on experiences 'provide[s] more enduring happiness.' They looked specifically at anticipation as a driver of that happiness; whether the benefit of spending money on an experience accrues before the purchase has been made, in addition to after. And, yes, it does.

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Waiting for an experience apparently elicits more happiness and excitement than waiting for a material good (and more 'pleasantness' too—an eerie metric). By contrast, waiting for a possession is more likely fraught with impatience than anticipation. 'You can think about waiting for a delicious meal at a nice restaurant or looking forward to a vacation,' Kumar told me, 'and how different that feels from waiting for, say, your pre-ordered iPhone to arrive. Or when the two-day shipping on Amazon Prime doesn’t seem fast enough.'

Gilovich's prior work has shown that experiences tend to make people happier because they are less likely to measure the value of their experiences by comparing them to those of others. For example, Gilbert and company note in their new paper, many people are unsure if they would rather have a high salary that is lower than that of their peers, or a lower salary that is higher than that of their peers. With an experiential good like vacation, that dilemma doesn't hold. Would you rather have two weeks of vacation when your peers only get one? Or four weeks when your peers get eight? Peo

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