Well that's why the musician Wizard Chan said and I quote "sometimes you break your heart just to please your soul." If you start getting everything your mind tells you, you'll get so sorry you followed everything your heart told you just minutes after.

In order to save money, there are series of things and acts you have to let go of which holding or controlling your thirst for unnecessary things is one critical factor. You mentioned going to a beer parlor to get beer and pepper soup to get your strength back.
Now I will ask, must it be beer and peppersoup? Why can't it be a normal restaurant where they sell good food because I believe with #3,000 you'll get a plate of soup and eat to feel energized than you going to get beer and peppersoup with everything you worked for.

To be able to hold on to your money, you have to learn to kill that consciousness that always cracks for irrelevant things and only then will your money last a day in your pockets.