Keep a Spending Log for 2009

December

Travel – £82.80
Going out/ drinks – £63.00
Snacks/ lunches – £35.39
Presents – £1.30
Clothes, hair and toiletries – £94.50
Books/ magazines/ CDs/ DVDs – £3.99
Misc – £2.99 (batteries)

There, that’s my full year now. I am going to carry on with this exercise but on paper rather than on here so as not to waste time duplicating.

November

Travel – £10.40
Going out/ drinks – £94.50
Snacks/ lunches – £31.63
Presents – £159.49
Clothes, hair and toiletries – £26.81
Books/ magazines/ CDs/ DVDs – £0.00
Misc – £9.94 (birthday treats I took into work)

October

Travel – £27.90
Going out/ drinks – £21.60
Snacks/ lunches – £31.32
Presents – £27.00
Clothes, hair and toiletries – £0.00
Books/ magazines/ CDs/ DVDs – £0.00
Misc – £26.49(dentist, meds, radiator airer)

September

Travel – £20.40
Going out/ drinks – £84.50
Snacks/ lunches – £41.90
Presents – £10.70
Clothes, hair and toiletries – £101.46
Books/ magazines/ CDs/ DVDs – £0.00
Misc – £152.38(glasses, sensodyne, fabric glue)

August

Travel – £10.40
Going out/ drinks – £53.00
Snacks/ lunches – £23.80
Presents – £5.00
Clothes, hair and toiletries – £54.02
Books/ magazines/ CDs/ DVDs – £0.00
Misc – £74.64(Heather’s cake decoration, round-up, sunflowers)

July

Travel – £21.40
Going out/ drinks – £34.55
Snacks/ lunches – £32.33
Presents – £21.00
Clothes, hair and toiletries – £50.59
Books/ magazines/ CDs/ DVDs – £0.50
Misc – £72.78(Heather’s cake, garden fork, aqua aerobics, pillows, cd cases)

Fairly pleased with this, most areas are down on last month, the mics is high because of the cake but I don’t mind that.

June

Travel – £45.00
Going out/ drinks – £69.76
Snacks/ lunches – £45.42
Presents – £12.00
Clothes, hair and toiletries – £44.22
Books/ magazines/ CDs/ DVDs – £6.00
Misc – £24 (Sponsorship money, photos developed, drinks bottle)

I’ve decided to split the going out/ drinks from snacks/lunches from now. This is because I’m happy spending money on solialising but would still like to cut down on snacks and lunches as they don’t really do me any favours at all.

Travel is high this month as I’ve been out a handful of times and so have been paying out for taxies.

May

Travel – £20.84
Going out/ drinks/ snacks/ lunches – £75.02
Presents – £29.70
Clothes, hair and toiletries – £32.67
Books/ magazines/ CDs/ DVDs – £26.98
Misc – £27.24 (Race For Life sponsorship money, gig ticket)

April

Travel – £3.70
Going out/ snacks – £66.17
Presents – £19.00
Clothes, hair and toiletries – £0.00
Books/ magazines £0.00
Misc – £31.99 (sponsorship money, lever arch file, gig ticket, earphones)

Well, to say I was trying to cut down on food spending its only pennies less than last month, and the worst bit is that only £9 of it was actually drinks out, everything else was lunches or snacks, last month I actually had a few proper meals/ nights out at least.

I need to crack down on this. I am going to try and only have snacks on a weekend, not during the week. I think I may have to bring more lunch to compensate but at least it will be cheaper even if I’m still eating the same eamount!

March

Travel – £4.00
Going out/ snacks – £67.97
Presents – £24.55
Clothes, hair and toiletries – £61.75
Books/ magazines £6.50
Misc – £11.61 (meds, mug, sketch pad, batteries)