13. Girl Math in the Gym
Girl Math: Thinking that you deserve to consume extra calories if you sweat
Source: @LaFawndah
Girl math does not discriminate on the basis of size or weight. So if you went to the gym or indulged in physical activity that had you break into a sweat, you deserve an extra treat or another slice of that delicious chocolate cake you keep eyeing!
Girl Math In The Gym @LaFawndah/TikTok
The fact that you broke a sweat means that your body wasted calories because why else would your back be covered in moisture? Since your body went through this ordeal, you deserve to let it rest with a delicious treat. Life is not meant to be spent calculating calories, and girl math is a huge propounder of this fact!
14. Methods of Avoidance
Girl Math: Deleting a whole app to ignore one person
Source: @_Onezwa
Ignoring a person when your heart does not want to but your mind tells you to is nothing to be taken seriously, especially if you are a girl who believes in girl math. So what do you do if you wish to do so? You simply delete the whole app you typically use to talk to that person and call it a day.
Methods Of Avoidance @_Onezwa/TikTok
Girl math says that once that app is gone, you have absolutely no way of contacting that person, even when they aren’t blocked. You cannot just text them at an app you never talk on because that would be plain weird. The solution? No contact at all.
15. Earned’ $150 by Finding a Macbook on Sale
Girl Math: Discounts equal earned money
Source: @vialsss
Girl math is changing the conversation around money, and it has gotten a range of fans, from young women to actual financial advisers. When @vialsss, a TikToker, found a MacBook for sale for $1,300 rather than $1,450, she girl mathed to a new level.
Earned’ $150 by Finding a Macbook on Sale @vialsss/TikTok
Technically, because the Apple product was on sale, she “already earned $150.” The $150 price difference counts as earned money, says girl math, breaking down the discount in a very positive way.
16. Double Daily Spending Budget
Girl Math: You can spend extra money tomorrow if you do not spend money today
Source: @healthbydaniela
Daniela is truly a mouthpiece for girl math, and another of her principles states that if you do not spend any money in a day, which is highly unlikely to happen, you have extra money to spend for tomorrow.
Double Daily Spending Budget @healthbydaniela/TikTok
This is because your spending budget from the day you didn’t buy anything gets added to the next day, doubling the budget for one day. You can also save your daily budget for several days by not buying anything and making one big purchase at the end of the spending boycott!
17. Girl Math: Diamond Ring Edition
Girl Math: Buying on sale saves money and time
Source: @fvhzm
A woman called into a radio show, @fvhzm, to girl math buying a diamond ring, and the show didn’t let her down. The woman had been recently separated, and she missed wearing her diamond ring and wanted to replace it.
Girl Math: Diamond Ring Edition @fvhzm/TikTok
The ring she wanted to buy was on sale for $800, and that was all the radio show needed to justify the purchase. If she bought the ring on sale, she was actually saving herself money, as inflation would surely make it more expensive if she waited.
18. Overestimating Your Getting Ready Skills
Girl Math: Thinking that you only need ten minutes to get ready
Source: @forblu3s
Girl math is delusional, and prompts you to make delusional choices, like thinking that you can take a bath or get ready within ten minutes. These ten minutes almost always end up getting extended to thirty, which is why people all over the world have a common perception that women take just too long to get ready.
Overestimating Your Getting Ready Skills @forblu3s/TikTok
They do not; they only overestimate their getting-ready skills and signal out way too little time to fit in all of their skincare and makeup routines. But this girl’s math only works for some girls, while the other half may agree with the following entry.
19. Staying Delusional
Girl Math: If you don’t see money getting deducted from your account, it is not spent money
Source: @zephanijong
Girl math enables girls to embrace the quirky side of life, no matter how queer that may sound to the rest. One of its tenets dictates that you only spend money if you know what your original bank balance was and what it was reduced to after you made a purchase.
Staying Delusional @zephanijong/TikTok
But does it count as spending money if you do not look at the money in your account before and after making a purchase? Girl math says absolutely no. If you do not see money getting deducted from your account, you still have it, the birds are still chirping, the Sun is still out, and everything is still going great!
20. Return Something at Zara for $50 and bought Something Else That Was $100, it Only Cost Me $50. Girl Math
Girl Math: $100-$50=$50
Source: @samjamessssss
Who doesn’t love Zara? The shop has taken the world by storm, and young women are obsessed with it (for good reason). On TikTok, @samjamessssss posted a video about her Zara trip that was liked over 628,000 times.
Return Something at Zara for $50, Bought Something Else That Was $100, it Only Cost Me $50. Girl Math @samjamessssss/TikTok
James said that she returned an item at Zara that cost $50. Then, she bought something else that cost $100. So, because she made the return, that $100 item actually only cost her $50. “Girl math,” James captioned her video triumphantly. Makes sense to us.
21. Free Concert
Girl Math: Thinking that a March concert is free if you buy tickets in September
Source: @stfujules02
The key to girl math is embracing the delusional side of life, and delving in it whenever you can. This applies to concert tickets, which are the most likely to sell out months before the intended event. Girl math dictates that if you buy concert tickets for a show scheduled in March in September, the concert you attend in March will undoubtedly be free.
Free Concert @stfujules02/TikTok
Since more than five months have passed since you spent money on the tickets, it does not count anymore. And since you go to the concert without spending a penny in March, the concert is absolutely free. Monthly expenses stay within the month they are spent in!
22. Money Differences
Girl Math: Thinking that a man is broke if he has as little money as you
Source: @dyingscribe
Girls often have the Romantic and Victorian era conceptions of the knight in shining armor who is loaded with money and saves them from the financial problems of this corporate world. But girl math comes into play when calculating the contrasting traits of their earning as compared to a guy’s.
Money Differences @dyingscribe/TikTok
Girl math dictates that a man who has less money is broke, even if the money he has is less than what you have. In simple words, your position to consider someone broke does not change with how much money you have, but rather how much the guy has.
23. It’s $150 Saved, Not Spent #hero
Girl Math: Discounts are earned money
Source: @haraldtronsi
“A Hero Can Save Us” was the song playing in the background of this TikTok video, which was posted by @haraldtronsli. “Girl math is a thing,” the TikToker announced in this skit, whose logic you can’t argue with.
It’s $150 Saved, Not Spent @haraldtronsli/TikTok
The skit featured a common concept seen in girl math. If you buy something and there is a discount, that discount equals earned money. So, if a shirt was $150 off, then that means that $150 was saved, not spent. #Hero.
24. Canceled Plans Mean Free Money
Girl Math: If your plans get canceled, you get free money
Source: @healthbydaniela
Amongst the several girl math tenets that Daniela propounds, one of them states that if you have plans to go out with your friends but they end up getting canceled at the last minute, there is nothing to be sad about: canceled plans mean that you now have an extra $20-$30 that you were going to spend today but didn’t!
Canceled Plans Mean Free Money @healthbydaniela/TikTok
You can do whatever you want with that money; girl math does not restrict you from doing anything. Follow your heart after a canceled plan!
25. Doing Math Right
Girl Math: Thinking it’s okay to spend the money you saved
Source: @aliceofei
Girl math lets you indulge in the small delicacies of life without feeling burdened by your endeavors to make yourself feel good. So it dictates that if you buy a pair of shoes that cost $70 and find out that your student card makes you eligible for a 10% discount, the money you save is actually your remaining bank balance for the day that you are allowed to spend.
Doing Math Right @aliceofei/TikTok
So if you buy a meal with that $7, that meal doesn’t cost you anything because you got it for the price of the shoes you bought!