<prompt> Human: I paid off the 2,000 camera, my girlfriend graduated with her Masters, I started taking dance lessons, traveled to Chicago poorly planned, signed a lease, put down 2,300 and here we are almost 5 months later and it hasnt gotten any better. I have drained my savings almost, within a couple of years, I have gone from 9k to 600 now. Between the photography, salsa dancing, toastmasters, rent, buying food not eating at home, a shitty car note, car insurance, cell phone bill. I havent done a good job at managing my money. At all... and no one knows this. The job I have now, I earn roughly 2800 a month, and I am doing more than I can compensate for unfortunately. I told myself, the job I have now would let me segue way into graduate school since I work in academia. But the problem is, I havent necessarily began studying, and Ive been dating a girl whos been wanting to see me every other night. I wanted to get into graduate school by January of 2019, but by the looks of it, it probably wont happen. I have a girl right now who wants to get married, buy a house, live together, have a wedding ceremony, but it really cant happen.Rent - 1150 Car note - 270 Car Insurance - 100 Cell Phone - 94Netflix - 10 Gym - 35 Food - 300? I havent been keeping count because I go out during lunch and dinner and spend anywhere from 7-10 every time.Pension401k -- Right now, I have around 12,500, and I started two years ago.My salary - 51,500bi-weekly check - 2,800I got offered to apply for a job that would have been 10,000 increase, but I am also considering applying for another job to give me an extra 300-400 a month.What are thoughts or suggestions on how to get out of this whole? 4,000 in credit card debt isnt that bad, but I do believe I can get out of it.TL;DR -- Spent a lot of money on credit, and need a way to pay it off. Open to suggestions right now.Assistant: it sounds like you need to start writing down every little thing you buy, from every meal out, to every piece of clothing, etc. That will give you a much better idea of where your money goes. I have been there and racked up a lot more debt than that because I put everything on the card. You have the income to pay it off, you just need to be more stringent on setting a budget and sticking to it.Human: A shit ton of my money is going towards food, and its probably more than 300. Like I said, dating can be very expensive and every Friday, the GF calls and says lets go grab some food! but she isnt paying rent.  <response>: Do you share the costs of dates? Dating doesnt have to be super expensive. 