If Carrie Bradshaw was real

Posted by Marisa Crous on May 12, 2011 in entertainment news | 4 comments

Okay, so not to shatter the illusion of our favourite fashionista, Carrie Bradshaw, main character on Sex and the City; but it’s interesting to think about Carrie’s insane spending behaviour on the show. She buys her crazy, beautiful outfits (Manolo’s for $500?!), and lives a luxurious life, sipping Cosmos in one of the world’s most expensive cities. That my friend, does not come cheap. And all on a newspaper columnist’s salary? That’s why the blog, The Frenemy, decided to do some Carrie Math. They came up with:

The job:

She writes one thing every week for a crappy newspaper. I’d say a nice paycheck for a newspaper column is about $200 now, but let’s say the economy was way better in 1998 and she could get $500 a week for it.

The apartment:

She lives in a swanky, one bedroom that’s not even a studio which is insane. Right now, an apartment her size would cost $2,400. But real estate use[d] to be better so I’ll say that the apartment was $1,800.

Then, there’s the cabs, lunch with her girls, the Cosmos and, of course, the clothes and shoes! The Frenemy concluded that Carrie Bradshaw would be approximately $3,000,000,000,000 in debt! Good thing she’s not real…