Where the money went in 2010

[fivemack]

I've done this for enough years that I should keep doing it even though this year it's not reflecting on me terribly well. It's been an expensive year; I went on costly holidays to Africa and China, and bought two reasonably fancy computers (a 27" iMac from the Apple Refurbished Store and a dual-quadcore-Opteron with 32GB memory assembled with parts from ebay), and so my net savings are near enough zero.

My circumstances otherwise are very similar to last year; I still live alone in a rented house, I am not meaner or more generous at buying presents or giving to charity, at least rounded to 1%. 'Health' is a pair of sunglasses and a pair of spectacles - the edges of the viewfinder on the camera that I had to my eyes constantly in Africa scratched the previous ones irredeemably. It seems that I get through three pairs of trousers a year.

I think the headings need to change, the biggest costs in 'ENT' are the hotel bill in China and hiring the 300/2.8 lens for Africa, the biggest cost in 'TRAVEL' is the return flight to China, whilst the Africa trip was all-inclusive and lumped in 'HOLIDAY'.

Comments

[stephdairy.livejournal.com]

I note that your pie has become tastier prettier since last year.

(S)

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

For this I blame the iMac, on which I run Office 2008 rather than the Office 2003 I'd been using for the last seven years: I'm not enough of an Excel expert to make the chart look the same despite the software upgrade, and I find Google very bad for answering questions about Excel use - I suppose I can't phrase them correctly, so I get a list full of other people asking the same question and generally not getting answers.

[naath.livejournal.com]

I did mine today. HAPPY DAYS. I spent less on yarn this year than rent. But more on all fun things (holidays and clothes and toys).

I need to buy less yarn :(