How My Expenses Have Changed Since Leaving Big Brother House - Saga

Much has been said about the Big Brother Naija show. A lot has been said about the show itself and if it adds anything to society, if it should keep going, why and why not. A lot has been said about the contestants from the show. A lot has been said about how difficult life tends to become for ex housemates of the show who find it difficult to weather the storm that is life outside the Big Brother house. For all that has been said about the show, nobody has really come out to give a cost breakdown of life before the show and after the show.

Season 6 contestant Saga sat down with the people over at fintech company Piggyvest to talk about the actual naira by naira breakdown of what life after the Big Brother house looks like. I thought it was a very interesting conversation and so of course you know I had to bring it to you. Are you ready to see how Saga's financial life has changed from before Big Brother to today? Then let's jump in and see what the ex-housemate said.

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Speaking to Piggyvest, Saga said about his finances since entering the Big Brother house to today:

Let me start by saying that in the house, I earned the most money in the shortest time. ₦7.5m. I made ₦2.5m just from writing a speech and reading it out loud. Nothing beats that. One of my very first gigs blew my mind. This guy had been begging my manager to bring me to a club in Warri, and he was arguing with them because they wanted to pay ₦1m. I was like, “Me?” They will pay for things like accommodation and flight, and still give me ₦1m? My mind was blown. I have been making 10 times what I was making before I got into the BBN house. But the sad thing is that I have been spending 15 times what I was spending before I got in.

Let me start with the obvious one. Clothes. You will pay a stylist ₦100,000 to style you and you still give them the clothes back. I’m telling you. When people tell me, “Come for my event, come for my event”, it’s not that easy. I have to buy clothes. Then accommodation. I used to live in a three bedroom house. The rent was ₦600,000, and I was sharing the apartment with my guys. So that was ₦200,000. Right now, I am paying ₦5.1m.

That’s what makes some housemates depressed. It’s a life-changing event. It changes your reality drastically. So I am paying that and I’ve had to furnish the house. It’s expensive, but it’s not like I can still be living in my father’s house at this age. LOL. Instablog go carry am. “Saga Moves Into Father’s House After Being So Broke.”

If I go to a club, they give me drinks. So that isn’t expensive. But I can’t fly economy anymore — although I am not the one paying for it. Food is more expensive, too. I can’t eat my Iya Basira and my roadside bole. But this thing called clothes eh! You return everything back because if you have to buy it, you spend more. The real deal breaker is that once I wear something and take a photo for Instagram, I can’t wear them again anytime soon.

Another thing that takes a lot of money is Airbnb and hotels. When you leave the house, you move into one of those. Every housemate is guilty of this one. Because you are moving around so much—today, you are in Warri; tomorrow, you are in Abuja—you can’t find the time to look for a house. Sometimes you find a good place but before you pay, someone else has taken it. It got to a point where I paid for a place before I took a good look at it. I had to arrest the guy before I got my money back. That was on Christmas Day! The housing thing ate my money seriously. And when I finally got a place and brought my clothes together, I felt like I should open a boutique!

Then there is your family and friends thinking you are a millionaire.

Wow! What a complete change of lifestyle. Some things I don't understand, like why can't he still eat Iya Basira or roadside bole? Wetin do these foods? Also this expectation that celebrities should not wear the same thing two times, I've never understood but if somebody decides to wear their own cloth two times, will they explode? I don't understand. But then again, I'm not in the public eye so who knows.

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