Week 12 Budget Assessment
By Matt - Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
I was a little surprised when I tallied up the numbers for this past week. I knew I had gone over a bit but I didn’t think I was almost $100 over my budget for the week. We had some family over this week and I was expecting a few additional costs but nothing dramatic. Here are this week’s numbers:
| Weekly Budget Aug 11-17 |
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| Budget | Actual | |
| Alcohol | $30.00 | $58.00 |
| Food-Lunch | $10.00 | $6.20 |
| Food | $80.00 | $100.57 |
| Gas | $40.00 | $80.03 |
| Entertainment | $0.00 | $31.25 |
| Smokes | $25.00 | $9.99 |
| Misc | $25.00 | $42.27 |
| Transportation | $10.00 | $2.00 |
| Stupid | $15.00 | $0.00 |
| Total | $235.00 | $330.31 |
I wasn’t surprised when I looked at each category individually since the jumps aren’t drastic. The Alcohol spending was a bit above what I was expecting but then again I haven’t purchased any of the better beers in a while so I wasn’t really estimating properly when it came to that. Food was a bit more than I was expecting as well but again the difference wasn’t great. This goes for pretty much every category.
The one category that completely surprised me was the Gas costs – I did a bit more driving this week but I didn’t think I had done quite that much. I guess all of these numbers really do add up quickly (gas costs included). The other item that wasn’t budgeted and planned for was any entertainment costs; when the in-laws were in town I have a beer with a couple of them and treated. Not expected but not a bad way to spend some money. Overall I’m a little disappointed that my budgeting was so off this week and I’ll have to keep this in mind the next time that there’s family visiting.
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