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 20th
– $83.98 (groceries)
– $68.54 (vitamins)
– $20.28 (health & beauty)
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)

Saturday 21st
No spend day

Sunday 22nd
No spend day

Monday 23rd
No real spending today
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)

Tuesday 24th
– $9.73 (cigarettes)
-/+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)

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

Thursday 26th
– $3.87 (beer)
– $17.96 (pizza)
-/+ $33.63 (transfer left-overs to Emergency Fund)
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)

Total Weekly Spending: $252.99

Categorized:

Savings $38.63
Cigarettes $9.73
Groceries $83.98
Dining Out $17.96
Other $88.82
Alcohol $3.87
Save 4 Car insurance $10.00

$$$ Entire Paycheck Totals $$$

Income: $1,488.63
Spending: $1,488.63

Categorized:

Savings $237.94
Rent & Bills $750.00
Dining Out $46.74
Cigarettes $93.75
Other $88.82
Groceries $83.98
Puppy Expenses $106.35
Gas $37.23
Alcohol $23.82
Save 4 Car insurance $20.00

Pre-tax 401K Contributions: $126.36

Notes: Well, at least we saved a lot again. We finally got the puppy in for her shots, so that’s a relief. The grocery spending wasn’t that bad, but we spent too much on dining out—d@mn you yummy pizza. I hate paying for vitamins, but I feel great taking them…we all do. Usually, I buy them online to catch a sale and use cash-back shopping; this time I just didn’t notice that we were running out.

Hopefully we will be able to continue saving money at this same rate. The 401k contributions should start being larger sometime over the next couple of paychecks, I don’t think it’ll end up being this next one though, that’s just too soon. I hope you all had a great week with your budgets or whatever you’re doing with your dough.

 

How did your budgeting/spending go this week?