One Million and Beyond

Weekly Budget – Week 14 (Aug 25-31)

By Matt - Sunday, August 24th, 2008

This past week ended up being fairly expensive for me higher than I was expecting. The goal for the upcoming week will be to bring things back into check because this unexpected spending is going to hurt my budgeting and my being able to continue to pay my bills. I’ll cover off the unexpected spending in tomorrow’s assessment post. Here are this week’s projected spending:

The biggest difference from last week will be the fact that my transportation costs are back down to a more reasonable $10 which is my standard backup amount when I have to pay for parking or take transit somewhere. Other than a few parking tickets that I’m going to have to pay off I don’t expect this one to jump up much for a couple months.

I’m going to cut the alcohol spending down a bit because I really don’t need to spend as much money as I have been on this category. Continuing on vices the smoking is pretty much the same as last week. I’m still debating a proper quit date but that will be a separate post and soon.

The only other main difference with the numbers from last week is the decrease in the food spending. We purchased a fair amount of groceries this week that will take us into at least the middle of the week before we need more. I think that this number might be significantly lower but I would like to err on the cautious side.

The one non-financial goal that I would like to accomplish this week is to update my weekly goal on a daily basis. By this I mean that little box to the right that tracks my ongoing results each evening. I found that when I didn’t do this I wasn’t as careful with my money but by having this constant reminder I think this weeks rather tight numbers are very achievable.

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