My Family’s Money

This was a stellar month for us in terms of our monthly budget. Here are the numbers:

We ran under budget in every category save our entertainment category which saw an unexpected rise in the cost of our Napster subscription. Oh what I would give for the glory days of Napster when I could download songs for free with a clear conscious because I wasn’t wise to the fact that it was probably stealing. Stupid stealing stuff posing as free stuff.

All told, we were 5.97% under budget this month. Riding the bus has kept our gas expense down even with the dramatic rise in gas prices in San Diego over the last few weeks. I need to keep riding the bus. I am seriously proud that once again my wife feed us on a falling $0.64 per meal per person. That is $0.13 less per meal that is was in January. I think that most of it was the massive deals she got on breakfast food and a convenient free trip to visit her family back east. We also undertook an entrance beautification project run by my wife, which accounts for the majority of our household spending. Flowers are nice and smell good too. Other than that, our spending was pretty basic. We got to keep this up.