Originally Posted by
lekate
Expected income - 1500$
Actual income - 1578.31$
Variance Spent 147.15$ (sitting in chequing account)
Expenses
Cell phone - 40/40$
OSAP - 71$/71$
MC Interest - 30/30$
Alesse - 21/21$
Transit - 94/94$
Variables
Groceries - 232.86/300$
Cats - 69.61/100$
Misc./other - 93.98/100$
Eating out - 140.38/125$
Entertainment - 5.08/50$
Savings and Debt payments
TFSA - 0/200$
Savings - 0/68$
MC - 232.25/200$
I owe taxes so dipping into savings and 200$ from this month. Poop. 400$ on this this month.
Goals
- Stay on top of budgeting, I'm using Google Documents so I should be able to update and access from any computer, to see where I'm heading.
- Keeping bringing lunch into work, and not buying a bagel for breakfast from Tim Horton's.
- Use up the instant coffee I was given at work instead of buying coffee out and work on replacing morning coffee with tea.
- Buy ticket to go to Montreal in the summer (OSHEAGA!)
- Yard sale this month
I've been doing sooo good at not buying material items. It's been almost a month since I last bought a non-food/drink item. No books, no magazines, no clothes, nothing 'just because'. It feels great! I know I'm not helping to be a good little consumer like the economy would like, but hey I don't get paid well enough to be one!