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 23rd
+ $1,367.60 Honey’s Paycheck
-/+ $133.80 (transfer to savings = 50% of amount over Root Income)
– $24.95 (whiskey for honey)
– $96.25 (cigarettes)
– $37.84 (vitamins)
– $20.32 (honey needed a tool for work)
– $705.00 (rent and bills)
– $44.79 (alcohol and mixers for margarita night)
– $1.59 (ice)
– $21.68 (pizza)
-/+ $10.00 (transfer to Travel Fund I set up)
-/+ $10.00 (transfer to Operation SUV)
-/+ $40.00 (transfer to Roth IRA)
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)

Saturday 24th
No spend day

Sunday 25th
– $43.43 (gas @ 3.799 per gallon)
– $10.81 (other)

Monday 26th
– $7.94 (soda)
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)

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

Wednesday 28th
– $70.28 (groceries)
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)

Thursday 29th
No real spending today
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)

Total Weekly Spending: $1,293.68
Pre-tax 401K Contributions $114.65

Categorized:

Savings $158.80
Groceries $79.81
Rent & Bills $705.00
Dining out $21.68
Cigarettes $96.25
Alcohol $69.74
Gas $43.43
Other $68.97
Roth IRA contributions $40.00
Save 4 Car insurance $10.00

Left-over for remaining week $73.92

Notes: I can’t believe we still have a week to go and we’re close to broke. At least we saved a lot and were able to send 40 bucks to our Roth IRA. Last Friday we finally had a margarita night and it was lots of fun, I’m not sure what it is but whenever I drink, I crave pizza. It was such a natural occurrence too, I just pulled up Internet Explorer and had ordered pizza in around 2 minutes. While we were getting our supplies for margarita night, I also grabbed the ingredients for cum-shots—that’s why it looks like we spent a lot. I see a good amount of no-spend days for next week…though I’d still prefer to end the pay-period with a decent sized transfer to our savings. We’ll see.

How did your budget/spending go this week?