Name: How a Chef Making $158K in Jersey City Spends Her Money | Glamour
Uploaded: 2020-05-06T18:46:20.000Z
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My name is Courtnee Futch, I'm 25 years old,

and in my spare time I run two food e-commerce businesses.

and thundercakes, which is my e-commerce bakery.

I make $98,000 a year in my nine to five,

and anywhere between four to six thousand dollars a month

depending on what events I'm throwing that month.

I have around $12,000 in a traditional savings account.

all of that actually comes from my undergraduate degree.

I do have my master's, but that was paid for

and for everything else I use my debit cards.

and wracked up a good bit of change on a few retail cards.

I live in a lofted one bedroom in Jersey City

I spend $1750 a month in rent and about $190 in utilities

I spend a little over $300 a month in subscription services.

I travel into New York City Monday through Friday

for my nine to five, and I spend about $81 a month

My apartment is eclectic and cozy and warm and lived-in.

On the morning of an event, I typically wake up around 9 AM.

so I like it to feel very airy, very light.

so I bought it for $5 at a yard sale on the side of the road

painted it like this really pretty midnight blue,

and gave it a lot of really funky, gold detailing,

and I really love the complement of the orange.

I ended up getting into DIYs because both of my parents

find pieces of my own that are really quirky

The piece that I get the most compliments on

Also a Craiglist find, I found it for $150.

which ended up being a very terrible choice for the space,

and then later decided I wanted to paint it

a really festive, kind of dainty periwinkle blue.

so I'm attempting to teach myself how to paint faces.

On this particular day, I'm getting ready

is I'll usually get started working on the sides

I wanted the kitchen to feel very colorful

I wanted it to not take itself too seriously,

of a lot of love and lot of energy and a lot of character,

so I tried to incorporate as much of my personality

The kitchen when I moved in was all white,

there was no back splash, I actually was able to put that up

myself, which is pretty exciting, peel and stick.

And also, in an attempt to cover up a fridge

that's pretty regular, I put temporary wallpaper on it.

I've had my main company, thundercakes, for seven years.

I'm spending anywhere between four to $500

on ingredients, about $30 per month on my website,

$400 for my photographer, and about $100 for marketing.

Every so often, I'll have the need to hire a courier service

to handle deliveries that are too large for me

to deliver myself, and I typically end up paying

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