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Friday, December 3, 2010

Weekly Spending Tracking




Today is payday and I had a few payments to make including the last of the two rent payments I made to help out hubby, so all up a pretty expensive day. Hubby is paid on Tuesday and he is going to be covering the phone bill which is usually paid by me, this means that my load has been lightened a little. You might notice that I have managed to make a payment of $150 into my debt, I had fallen a little behind during the Month but I am now back up to date again. Unfortunately I had forgotten that my drivers license was due to expire this week, and not having put anything aside to pay for emergencies etc. the payment had to come out of my Grocery money. Hopefully the food in my freezer and pantry, will last till next Friday,s pay.


Rent $365.00
Debt $150.00
Woolworths Groceries $19.00
Morning Tea $10.00
Drivers licence $52.45
Petrol $20.00
Entertainment $26.00
Total today: $642.45

I havent budgeted for December as I,m going to have to pay out almost every cent I earn in order to start fresh in January, however I will do a weekly account of where the money is getting spent.This is this weeks, and as you can see almost 50% of the money spent this week was on Rent.

2010-11-29 Petrol $10.00
2010-12-03 Drivers licence $52.45
2010-12-03 Petrol $20.00
TOTAL FOR CAR EXPENSES $82.45
CLOTHES
2010-11-30 Red Cross Clothing $18.00
TOTAL FOR CLOTHES $18.00
DEBT
2010-12-03 Transpacific $150.00
TOTAL FOR DEBT $150.00
ENTERTAINMENT
2010-12-03 Morning Tea $10.00
2010-12-03 Pictures $26.00
TOTAL FOR ENTERTAINMENT $36.00
GROCERIES
2010-11-28 Fruit and Veg $10.00
2010-12-03 Woolworths $19.00
TOTAL FOR GROCERIES $29.00
HOUSEHOLD
2010-11-28 Curtains $10.00
2010-12-03 Rent $365.00
TOTAL FOR HOUSEHOLD $375.00
NO SPEND DAY
2010-12-01 Nothing $0.00
TOTAL FOR NO SPEND DAY $0.00
SPENDLESS YEAR
2010-12-02 Spend Less Day $0.00
TOTAL FOR SPENDLESS YEAR $0.00
XMAS 2010
2010-11-30 Xmas Cards $33.80
TOTAL FOR XMAS 2010 $33.80
TOTAL $724.25
I copied these figures straight from spendingdiary.com which I am loving using.

4 comments:

  1. Gotta love when Rent comes out huh? Ours is a big number.. I always hate seeing that $$ leaving my account! haha!! Hope you're able to squeek by with the groceries you have in the house! I hate "forgotten" bills. I got one today, thankfully only to the tune of $39, but still.. didn't have a budget for it. So once again my budget needs "tweaking".

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  2. Don't you love having it all in front of you to review? I think you did a great job in spending this week! $375 in rent? Is that inexpensive in your area, or about average? In my area, that amount wouldn't be possible anywhere...

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  3. I just found your blog and I am really enjoying it. I am also tracking my spending on my blog - http://budgetconfidential.blogspot.com - and I am finding it very interesting to see where my money is all being spent.

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