Where the money went, 2006

[fivemack]

(SLC is the Student Loans Corporation; I have not suddenly become an inadequately-tithe-paying Mormon)


If you compare with 2004



I'm surprised how consistent my habits have been; housing's more expensive (a whole house in Cambridge costs more to rent than half a house in Cheltenham), I've stopped learning to drive, and, worryingly, I seem to have become about 25% meaner when I look at the 'charity' and 'gift.out' segments; this latter I need to do something about.

I should probably apologise in advance to American readers for the invisible sliver that is medical costs, and to the taxpayers of the future for the absence of 'savings' segments, though income tax and pension contributions come straight out of salary and don't show up in the data I use for these graphs.

Comments

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

Interesting. What are FOREX and LIVE? It alarms me that you aren't able to save at all for a deposit on £300k shoebox Cambridge house. How would you assign, food and entertainment fractions to 'holidays', always my biggest extravagance.
And while you're reanalysing, what about 'stuff' for the accumulation of posessions?

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this; you've reminded me that I completely forgot to pay the rent this month!