2009 Weekly Budget – Week 6
By Matt - Monday, February 9th, 2009
The budget for the upcoming week is pretty similar to the previous budgets in that most items are the same. The overall budget is higher because this week is Valentines day and my wife and I are planning on going out for dinner. Here is this weeks budget:
| Weekly Budget Feb 9 – 15 |
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| Budget | Actual | |
| Alcohol | $40.00 | |
| Food-Lunch | $10.00 | |
| Food | $75.00 | |
| Gas | $15.00 | |
| Entertainment | $75.00 | |
| Smokes | $30.00 | |
| Misc | $40.00 | |
| Transportation | $20.00 | |
| Stupid | $10.00 | |
| Total | $315.00 | |
The entertainment expense is as a result of going out to dinner. I know that we could potentially do this for free and cook ourselves a nice dinner at home but we don’t go out very often and this is really a treat to ourselves. I have budgeted $75 and hopefully this is more than sufficient for the restaurant that we are planning on going to.
Other items on the list such as alcohol, smokes, food, miscellaneous, gas and transportation are pretty standard from previous weeks and I’ve left them as is, mostly because I haven’t taken enough time to review spending in these categories as of writing this. I think that once I’ve had a look and see just how much I’m spending I’ll have a better idea how to update the budget
The one item that I am going to try keeping down this week is my spending on lunches. I have always struggled with this expense because I don’t like bringing my lunch. I actually enjoy the idea of going out for a break and eating food that someone else has prepared for me.
This entry is filed under 2009, Weekly Budgets.
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