Welcome to yet another weekly edition of “Where Did The Dough Go?”. Below you can get a completely open and honest view of what we’re spending money on, how much we’re saving, investing and putting away for retirement. Please feel free to learn from our financial mistakes if at all possible, it’s way better than making them yourself.

Friday 7th
+ $1,309.65 Honey’s Paycheck
– $24.95 (whiskey for honey)
– $96.25 (cigarettes)
– $41.33 (gas @ 3.759 per gallon)
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)

Saturday 8th
– $27.17 (IHOP)
– $20.54 (2 new headlights)
– $104.91 (groceries)
– $21.15 (Chuck E. Cheese’s)

Sunday 9th
No spend day

Monday 10th
No real spending today
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)

Tuesday 11th
No real spending today
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)

Wednesday 12th
No real spending today
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)

Thursday 13th
– $30.42 (groceries)
– $86.34 (lots of different alcohols to bring on our trip)
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)

Total Weekly Spending: $468.06
Pre-tax 401K Contributions $109.47

Categorized:

Savings $5.00
Groceries $135.33
Cigarettes $96.25
Alcohol $111.29
Gas $41.33
Car Expenses $20.54
Dining Out $27.17
Birthday expenses $21.15
Save 4 Car insurance $10.00

Left-over for remaining week $841.59

Notes: Normally, we spend way more than this. The first week is when I do all the rent & bills stuff and transfers to savings, Roth IRA and Betterment. I’ve just been waiting to make sure our MasterCard would allow an over-payment on our account so that we could earn points on our vacation.

So all the other stuff we included in the next one, hopefully I’ll be able to do it all before we leave. Our grocery spending is so high because I took my honey to the grocery store (both times), but he got to pick out lots of meat, so that’s good. We took our daughter to Chuck E Cheese for her birthday and I won the Ski-ball jackpot…again. She had a lot of fun. We spent a ton of money at the Liquor store on Thursday, we got a good variety for our trip; this will help us save money.

How did your budget/spending go this week?