Friday, January 20, 2017

Week Three Spending

This month has been busy. Between kindergarten, swimming lessons, gymnastics, work (which is exhausting), cleaning at my mom's, and trying to maintain my home I am tired. Happy, but tired. Ah, that's life. I just about let the past week's spending get away from me. Granted I have not been doing a great a job being frugal but I NEED to at least keep track. Just basic ground rules of budgeting right there.

I just sat down and tallied up the past several day's spending and added it to the rest of the month. I feel like there are two small purchases that I missed but I can't find them. Spending is much higher this month than I'd like it to be but I have stocked up on some household items AND we went out to eat the other night and the total was WAY more then I'd expected. We got fajitas at a local Mexican restaurant and honestly the total should have been around $30 plus tip, so about $36 and it came out to be $48 (with tip). I'm pretty sure my husband's beer made up for all that extra (One very large beer). Geesh!

The food out category jumped from $0 for the first two weeks to $73.76 (from three occasions) in the past week. We also got frozen yogurt yesterday after little Abe did awesome at swimming and I picked up McDonald for he and I this afternoon. That's the only fast food we've had this month. (I'm not a big fast food fan anyhow)

Well that's the latest spending rundown. And now I feel accomplished for having tallied up the spending for this past week despite the totals.

Food Groceries $222.88: an average of $11.14 a day
Food out $73.76: an average of $3.69

Pets $29.15: an average of $1.46 a day
Stuff $10: an average of 50 cents a day
Toiletries $24.93: an average of $1.25 a day
Cleaning and house supplies $65.78: an average of $3.29 a day

Average daily spending for 2017: $21.32

8 comments:

  1. Not bad, especially when you figure that the cost of a lot of the things will spread out into several other months!

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    1. Yeah, that's what I'm keeping in mind. I'm excited to have a stock pile of a few things. It's kind of comforting (I hate buying laundry detergent).

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  2. You're doing great! My big current win is that our eating out budget for the month is at $11. The buying a home thing has freaked me out to spend anything. I'll chalk that up to a great win for the moment. ;-)

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    1. I think you can very easily call $11 eating out for the month a super win. I'm so excited for you guys and your new home.

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  3. We ended up eating out last night due to issue I couldn't deal with. Ouch-it adds up fast, but iur first family meal out anfvolder daughter was in town so kind of birthday dinner for her sister. You're doing great-it's a long game.

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    1. You said it! It adds up so fast. I can't even tell you how many times we've gone to eat out and I'm thinking, "Okay this should cost about $28," and then one little this and one extra that, wham $50! It's madness!!!

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  4. You are doing great!!! Our eating out budget has been out of control with me only having about 1/2 a working hand from the first surgery and the other one in a cast from the second surgery......sigh. We WILL be better in February!!!

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    1. I'm so glad you're on the recovery side of both surgeries now though. It's totally understandable that you've been eating out more this month!!!

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