Welcome to 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 22nd
– $15.14 (beer for honey)
– $1.59 (ice)
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)

Saturday 23rd
No spend day

Sunday 24th
– $35.47 (groceries)

Monday 25th
No real spending today
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)

Tuesday 26th
– $30.45 (cigarettes)
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)

Wednesday 27th
No real spending today
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)

Thursday 28th
No real spending today
-/+ 56.42 transfer to savings (left-overs)
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)

Total Weekly Spending: $97.46

Categorized:

Savings $5.00
Groceries $37.06
Cigarettes $30.45
Alcohol $15.14
Save 4 Car insurance $10.00

$$$ Entire Paycheck Totals $$$

Income: $1,452.51
Spending: $1,396.09

Categorized:

Savings $242.67
Groceries $118.06
Rent & Bills $690.00
Dining Out $15.54
Cigarettes $124.88
Alcohol $41.09
Gas $37.19
Other Stuff $98.98
B-day stuff/parties $44.10
Roth IRA contributions $10.00
Betterment contributions $10.00
Save 4 Car insurance $20.00

Pre-tax 401K Contributions: $122.65

Notes: Not much spending this week, well, not when you compare it to last week. We did end up having $56.42 left-over this time, so that was nice to send over to our savings. I can’t wait to do my July review and see how close we are to reaching one of our financial goals.

We didn’t make too many contributions to investing/retirement accounts this check but I’m sure we’ll catch up. If you’re wondering why I didn’t include the stuff from Office Max, that’s because it came out of separate money I’ve been saving for a laptop.

The stuff I include here is just from my honey’s paycheck and the laptop was from all the money I make online. We also didn’t put any money into Operation SUV this paycheck and that’s because we’re not 100% sure about whether we’ll end up getting one or using it for Operation Italy. I guess we should still put some money into it just in case and figure out the rest later.

 

How did your budget go this week? Any trouble areas?