Reasons Why Girl Math Just Works

Hey all! I am Amelia Schroeder, a fellow girl.

Welcome to my first blog post of many, many, many.

In this blog I will share about the life of a girly. From relationship advice, to what the girlies wear, to the logistics of girl math. If you are a young adult living your best girly life, this is the place to be.

Now I am no expert on the way all girls live, but from my 21 years of experience, I have a few insights on how to survive and thrive as a woman.

The truth is there are certain ways a woman does things that just do not typically apply to men. There are of course extenuating circumstances, but this blog IS for the girls.

I wanted to bring up the trending topic of what is girl math? How does it work? Does it only apply to women?

Girl Math

Girl Math is a newly coined term that surfaced the internet in July 2023 by a trio of radio hosts out in New Zealand. They had a female caller join in trying to justify a large purchase she had made. 

As women we try to justify almost all of our purchases to men, but if we understand the math, why does a man have to get it? The important and only way to define Girl Math is the way women think of and spend their money. Maybe it is a ironic rebuttal against the misogynistic view that women can't handle money- or maybe it's just true.

Girl Math has many rules so I will go over a few that I believe every girl should know.

        1.) If you're using cash, it's free

            I am sure we have all had times where the bank account was looking low and taking out your card to swipe, just wasn't the move. Dig through your purse!! Find a few floating bills? Maybe you have that fifty in there that you've been saving for the right time. If you are paying with paper money, newsflash, it's free.

        2.) Break Down your items by PPW (price per wear)

            Just bought a super cute new pair of free people cargo pants? Did they cost you $200? That literally doesn't matter because if they are your new favorite pants, and you wear them 20 times this year, the pants only actually cost you $10. Way more cost friendly than buying the cheap stuff from Shein that you only wear once.

        3.) If you return an item to the store, you're profiting

            Did you decide to buy that bathing suit for the 4th of July and when you got home you found that ole faithful white swimmy that's so flattering? Truly one of the best feelings when you head back to the store to return your suit and are gifted $40 that you now get to use on something else.

        4.) If urban outfitters is having a sale, and you don't purchase something, you are losing money

            When you get the email notification that your favorite store is having a sale, you MUST buy something. This is because if you don't buy it on sale, you are still going to want it at full price. If you buy it at full price, you are wasting money that could've been used for, not one, but TWO, skirts. 

        5.) If you get your nails done for an event, you're actually saving money by not making the organization redo the event

            Let's say you have a sorority formal to attend and you really want to get your nails done. To get them done could be up to $80. When you are at the event, you take photos of you and your friends hugging and therefore, your nails are in every photo. If you had gone to the function with bare nails, the pictures would have been disappointing, and in turn, you would have to ask the sorority to hold the event again so that you could get better photos. Because of this, you are actually saving everyone tons of money because the event was thousands of dollars, and your nails were only $80.

Girl math isn't complicated, but it can take practice. Maybe reading this gave you the clarity that you're richer than you thought! Start using Girl Math in your day to day, and don't let a man tell you that's not how finances works.

Now hurry and go shop that sale before you start losing money.