After a month of shopping and eating, the time has finally arrived to tally up the staggering expenses. This is also a good month for income, as there are three Friday paydays.
Incoming (all figures are after-tax):
$5,558 salary
$800 housing
$50 misc
Total: $6,408
Outgoing:
$483 car payment, gasoline, tolls, parking
$101 cable, broadband, phone
$40 cell phone
$97 utilities
$2,175 housing
$275 student loan payment
$80 cash withdrawal
$84 clothing
$153 dining out
$230 groceries
$106 contacts, medicine
$173 household
$457 leisure - Christmas gift shopping
$122 company store - Christmas gift shopping
$34 post office - shipping those gifts
$19 train rides to/from airport
$483 plane tickets to Houston
Total: $5,112
Net:
Difference: $1,296
* December is unusually due to the higher income and expenses (now every month has its reason to be unusual).
* About $600 was spent on Christmas presents. Mostly for parents and myself :-)
* About $500 was spent on Christmas travel, including plane tickets and train tickets. For some reason, travel this time costs more than before. I guess plane tickets have been going up.
* The extra money left over will be most likely going toward credit card loans.
January 9th, 2007 at 05:39 am 1168321163
January 15th, 2007 at 05:44 pm 1168883049
whole month.
I do make it ok on what I bring home.
Don't have much debt,own my tradler lot,no kids,so I make do.
Thanks for visting my blog.
January 16th, 2007 at 09:14 pm 1168982059
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. Every month seems to be "out of the ordinary" for me... it's hard to tell what ordinary is.
January 17th, 2007 at 05:21 pm 1169054482
thanks for commenting the same experience!