Where the money went in 2008

[fivemack]

As in the last three of these, "FOREX" is cash taken out and spent while abroad (I lump it all together since I couldn't face reconciling cash receipts in five currencies) and "SLC" is the last payments on the student loan. Clothes are "LIVE", cameras are "ENT"ertainment, for this is how my brain views such things; "ACCOM" covers rent, electricity, gas, insurance, the phone line, and, by mission creep, the initial and contract payments for mobilephones.

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[(Anonymous)]

Posting anonymously as I don't like to discuss my financial matters in public. I can't compare my own expenditure exactly with yours as I don't record it the same way (and have a mortgage rather than rent). However, if I strip out accommodation, savings, forex, tax, SLC and charges, the remainder is broadly comparable to a subset of my analysis. If I factor up your remaining items to 100% I think a comparison of you versus me is:

Charity and Gifts - YOU 11% ME 24%
Clothes - YOU 2% ME 3%
Computer - YOU 11% ME 2%
Entertainment - YOU 39% ME 10%
Food - YOU 21% ME 39%
Health - YOU 2% ME 3%
Travel - YOU 10% ME 17%
Miscellaneous - YOU 4% ME 3%

It's interesting how different certain items are.

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

I'm using 'TRAVEL' basically for tickets; if I go somewhere and stay in a hotel, the hotel counts as ENT. Not sure how sensible this is, because it means there isn't a number in the summary which is "what I spent by going on holiday and wouldn't have if I hadn't", and that's perhaps a more useful number to know.