WeatherLights
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Feb 4, 2018
November "where did my money go?" dump incoming. I don't usually track my day to day spending but, rather, just pay attention to the overall money coming in and money going out. I felt particularly spendy this month (on little stuff here and there as opposed to the previous several months where we had multi thousand dollar home repairs, car repairs, and vet bills). So I decided to do more of a drill down and here it is if anyone is interested. This is only the discretionary spending (for a family of three adults in a medium cost of living city.) Does not include mortgage and other monthly house related bills because my spouse pays those from his accounts.
Groceries (includes personal and housecare items from grocery store): 483.02
Gifts (holiday food gifts for family members): 236.73
Over the counter meds for spouse (he got sick but not covid!): 25.25
monthly subscriptions (amazon prime and the local paper's digital version) 21.70
2 new pillows and a fitted sheet: 47.76
water filter for fridge: 45.85
uber (had to go in to work for emergency and spouse had already left with the car): 11.37
bagels (picked up bagels while out doing errands): 14.10
dog bed, food grater, and something else??? from marshalls: 27.04
something from walmart on-line and cant remember what it was: 17.37
parking meter: 0.75
Stepson's internet: 50.15
$981.12 . This is just my spending. I'm sure my husband spent some discretionary money too, but I do the vast majority of the household purchasing so this is most of it (I know we got sandwiches one day but that is not on my credit card bill so he must have paid?) And the month isn't over yet I don't have any insight on this and not sure why I'm posting but now I have it saved and can compare to next month.
Groceries (includes personal and housecare items from grocery store): 483.02
Gifts (holiday food gifts for family members): 236.73
Over the counter meds for spouse (he got sick but not covid!): 25.25
monthly subscriptions (amazon prime and the local paper's digital version) 21.70
2 new pillows and a fitted sheet: 47.76
water filter for fridge: 45.85
uber (had to go in to work for emergency and spouse had already left with the car): 11.37
bagels (picked up bagels while out doing errands): 14.10
dog bed, food grater, and something else??? from marshalls: 27.04
something from walmart on-line and cant remember what it was: 17.37
parking meter: 0.75
Stepson's internet: 50.15
$981.12 . This is just my spending. I'm sure my husband spent some discretionary money too, but I do the vast majority of the household purchasing so this is most of it (I know we got sandwiches one day but that is not on my credit card bill so he must have paid?) And the month isn't over yet I don't have any insight on this and not sure why I'm posting but now I have it saved and can compare to next month.