Where the money went in 2009

[fivemack]

Comparing with last year's :

• I am now living alone, which makes accommodation substantially more expensive; I might have expected it to make food slightly less expensive, but the effect's pretty tiny


• I've changed the definition of 'TAX' so that council-tax is counted as accommodation, so there's no longer a TAX segment. I've never counted taxes paid by my employer (income tax and NI); since they're entirely non-optional, it feels better to think of them as costs paid by him to employ me.


• I've spent less time abroad in places where everything is paid for in cash, so FOREX (cash withdrawn while abroad) is a bit lower


• I have not become substantially meaner, either in gift-giving or in charitable donations, though I could still stand to be a bit more generous

Comments

[papersky.livejournal.com]

If you eat in a restaurant, do you count that as Food or Ent?

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

Food; I don't know whether that's the right answer, but I have been consistent with it.

[james-r.livejournal.com]

In business accounts if it's in a restaurant that's near home, it's generally entertainment, if it's away from home, it's subsistence.. :-)

[james-r.livejournal.com]

*Briefly wondered what on earth 12.8% on Ear, Nose & Throat was all about!*