Week 15 Budget Assessment
By Matt - Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
I finally had a chance to go through last weeks expenses and as it turns out that my expenses were not as I had expected them not by a long shot. I ended up being below budget but that’s because I didn’t replace my cracked windshield as planned which means that had I gotten to it I would have been grossly over budget. Here are the numbers from last week:
| Weekly Budget Sept 1-7 |
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| Budget | Actual | |
| Alcohol | $25.00 | $39.96 |
| Food-Lunch | $20.00 | $24.94 |
| Food | $80.00 | $40.00 |
| Gas | $45.00 | $60.00 |
| Entertainment | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Smokes | $25.00 | $16.90 |
| Misc | $40.00 | $181.17 |
| Transportation | $325.00 | $115.00 |
| Stupid | $0.00 | $5.00 |
| Total | $560.00 | $482.96 |
Spent more in most of the categories but this was kept in check by the fact that I didn’t spend nearly as much as I was expecting on the car. I didn’t end up getting the windshield as I was expecting what I did end up spending a fair amount of money on was a lot of house stuff for fixing up the walls in the basement.
There ended up being a fair amount of driving for me this week and that translated into more gas costs than I was expecting. This was nicely tempered by the fact that I didn’t spend nearly as much on food. I was a bit lazy this week in that I didn’t bring lunch with me at all and this drove my lunch costs up.
Overall I have to say that I’m a little disappointed with the results from this week because although I was expecting to spend a lot of money I wasn’t expecting there to be this much spending. Had I ended up spending money on the windshield then I would have been grossly over my budget.
This entry is filed under Budgeting and Planning.
One Response to “Week 15 Budget Assessment”
1 Roman says:
September 14th, 2008
at 12:32 am
Wow, thats pretty good. I never manage to follow my set spending limit.
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