track all expenses each day of February

I started this goal back in August, I think, originally wanting to track my expenses for September. That didn’t happen, so I edited my goal to track my expenses for October. And so on and so on through the end of 2007.

By the end of December, MamaKittyRN came to my rescue and helped to form a team to track expenses in January of 2008. We created a new goal for January, and the team approach was very helpful. I did a decent job of expense-tracking for January, and marked that goal as complete.

But come February, I fell off the wagon. I had gone back to my original goal, editing it to “track expenses each day of February”, but I hardly did any expense tracking.

MamaKitty and I tried another new goal for March, but it went nowhere.

Finally, in April, I started putting “track all today’s expenses” down each day as a babystep goal. (Flylady gets the credit for that approach.) I’ve been working on that ever since, and so far, so good for April and May.

But today, I wanted to finish up February and March, because I would like a complete picture for 2008.

It is finished. It’s good enough. I’m marking it done now.

2-18-2008

$6.48 Mcdonalds
$2.53 can of Monster

2-19-2008

$3.62 candy
$53.38 fuel
$31.08 case of Monster
$10.76 passport photo
$3.64 lunch
$4.48 postage

2-20-2008

$6.98 Lunch
$23.47 groceries
$1.50 library late fees

2-21-2008

$5.00 parking
$51.37 fuel

2-22-2008

1.92 coffee
$14.24 alcohol (Kir is expensive!)
2-23-2008
$44.57 fuel
5.48 snax and coffee

2-25-2008

58.97 fuel
$3.04 candy

2-26-2008

$47.96 postage
$20.09 car wash
$3.00 tip
$3.64 lunch

2-27-2008
$4.27 office supplies
2.77 candy

2-28-2008
$3.67 Pepsi
$40.82 fuel

I tracked my expenses for the past 2 days. Better late than never, I always say.

2-17-2008
7.00 candy
62.74 wife’s personal care items

2-16-2008
30 at Sushi bar

2-11-2008
3.00 ATM fee
5.44 Donuts for facility

2-12-2008
1.50 library fines
2-13-2008
30.00 gas
6.44 Valentine’s Day Card
1.15 mints

2-14-2008
3.17 mailing package

I think there will be no other big expenses this month

I close this goal

I will received it in 5 weeks.
I will ride this bin during 5 weeks.
The back door doesn’t close and it make a lot of noise.
I have only a few milles to do each day.
If I have a long journey to do, I will rent a car.

A good news
I am sure that the old car will not be stolen.

2-10-2008
9.88 organic milk
4.10 brush to clean clams
3.35 candy

2-9-2008
6.70 McDonalds

2-8-2008
28.96 paid for lunch at BJ’s Brewery
52.81 gas

I had a car crash this morning
My car is 130 000 km ( 80 000 milles) old
I must buy a new car this week
I suppose that my car insurance will pay 2000 euros (the official price of a 80 000 milles old car)

Feb 6th
7.47 Panda express
160.00 paid for Chinese New Years

feb 7th
received $20 in copay