The Even Split — What a Social Life Actually Costs, and How to Say So

The dinner was thirty dollars a head. You are $116 lighter and you are not entirely sure how.

You know roughly how. There were drinks before. There was a round you offered because somebody had gotten the last one. The bill got split evenly and you had the pasta while two people had the steak. There was a ride home you did not plan on, at a surge you did not check.

None of that was anybody being unfair. That is what makes it hard to talk about, and it is exactly why it keeps happening.

The Even Split prices the evening instead of the headline. In the worked example in the book, a thirty-dollar dinner comes apart into six lines and lands at $116 — 3.87 times the number anyone said out loud. Once you have seen your own version of that, the rest of the book is about deciding in advance, and saying it once per friendship rather than inventing a new excuse every time.

Not sure yet? Read five pages free — the cover, the whole method on one page, the first step, and one complete fill-in worksheet. No payment, no card.

What is inside

• 24 pages, eight fill-in worksheets, eight steps
• Three months counted honestly, then one evening priced line by line — including the sixteen dollars the even split quietly moved from one person to another, and the ride home nobody ever prices
• Your number: the arithmetic, followed by a decision the book deliberately refuses to make for you
• The invitation pricer — four lines, thirty seconds, and the one delay that everything else in the book depends on
• Wordings that actually work: for the conversation, the decline, the bill at the table, and the wedding eleven months out
• A cheaper-version list written in advance, because improvising an alternative in the moment has never once happened
• The big-ticket year planner, with the pre-wedding weekend given its own row and its own decision
• Eight honest answers, including the one about when counting is not the problem

Who it is for

Anyone whose friendships are more expensive than their friendships are supposed to be, and who would rather solve it with a sentence prepared in advance than by slowly seeing people less. Works whether the pressure is a tight month or a wedding season with four of them in it.

Format

Instant PDF download. US Letter, made to be printed and written on by hand. The invitation pricer is designed to be photographed and kept on your phone.

Refunds

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Please note

A budgeting and planning workbook for educational use. It is not financial advice, it does not know your situation, and it will not tell you what you can afford — that decision stays yours, on purpose, and the book explains why.