Where the money went, 2012 edition

[fivemack]

I bought a house; the actual deposit-handing-over does not appear in this pie chart, but the stamp duty, solicitors' fees, redecoration upstairs, redecoration downstairs, repair of garden fence, refurbishment of electric wiring, installation of one hundred feet of book shelving, replacement of cooker, new dishwasher, rewaterproofing of bath and replacement of hot water cylinder with a new unholy one do. That absorbed all my savings for the year and about three thousand pounds besides, but the stock market has been very good to me this year and accumulated dividends cover the gap even before looking at capital growth.

'HOLIDAY' includes my trip to Egypt in November, and the flight and first-few-nights accommodation for my upcoming trip to Argentina in March.

See here for last year's pie.

Comments

[redbird]

What does "LIVE" signify? It obviously can't be living expenses, because those include food and housing.

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

'Other living expenses' - clothes and furniture, mostly, and a catch-all LIVE.MISC category which seems to contain mostly postage stamps and cleaning products. 'MISC' is almost all MISC.ERROR, which are entries created when I discover that the amount of cash in my wallet doesn't match my tracked in-cash spending; I suspect in reality it's mostly food.

Yes, it's an idiosyncratic breakdown: things that send monthly or quarterly bills are under ACCOM and durable or semi-durable necessities go under LIVE. I am the kind of person who considers clothing a necessity rather than an entertainment.