Life in Mono...

Spending Hiatus: Week 4

I know I missed 2 weeks of the spending hiatus. I am sorry. Life just took over. So here is last week's review.

MONDAY

Nettball - $10

TUESDAY

Walter's Vet - $127.00

Bank's charges - $5.00

Mortgage payment - $600.00

WEDNESDAY

Spotlight - $25.51

Home and Health Insurance - $31.65

THURSDAY

Petrol - $48.28

Groceries - $215.26

FRIDAY

Dinner - $40.00 (I owed Tiff her dinner from last week)

SATURDAY

No spending

SUNDAY

No Spending

TOTAL SPENDING: $1,102.70

No bad. I have cut down spending tremenduously.  I have not been clothes shopping or op shopping in a while. The only thing that I spend on these days are yarn to crochet. But I think that is slowing down now as well because I have all the supplies that I need to keep me busy for a while. All the yarns were on sale anyways.

Spending Hiatus: Week 3

This week, I did pretty well. I had only one unforeseen payment this week. My plane ticket for my Nepal - Malaysia trip at the end of this year. I didn't know that I had to pay it by the end of this month. I though I would have enough time to save up some more.

MONDAY
Netball - $10
Credit Card Payment - $83.44
Smartrider - $50

TUESDAY
No Spending

WEDNESDAY
No spending

THURSDAY
Saree - $222.00
Walter's Nail Clippers -  $17.99
Yarns - $39.39

FRIDAY
Mobile Phone Bill - $85.33 ( I over spend last month :( )

SATURDAY
Plane Ticket - $1,893.00
CSA Share - $270.00

SUNDAY
No spending

TOTAL SPENDING : $2,621.15

*sigh* What is wrong with this picture? It's like every week the numbers keep on going up and up and up but I did ok though. I went 3 days without spending a cent. 

I think I am going to extend my Spending Hiatus month. I am going to do it until the end of June this time. Hopefully things would be much much better.

My savings are depleting. May is not a good month being my birthday and all.

Spending Hiatus: Week 2

Ok, this week there were a few unforeseen circumstances. There were 3 lunches out with clients and also the Craft Fair over the weekend. Also fortnightly mortgage payments were made this week and also my birthday dinner at the Greyhound Race Tracks. I also walked the Million Paws walk yesterday. Here is the a recap of last week :-

MONDAY
Lunch - $13
Netball - $10
Craft Fair Tickets - $15

TUESDAY
Lunch - $15.65
Mortgage Payments - $600.00 (my share)
Perth UpMarket Fees - $44.00

WEDNESDAY
Lunch - $7.90

THURSDAY
Groceries for 2 weeks - $146.61
Post - $3.00

FRIDAY
Home and Health Insurance - $31.65

SATURDAY
Craft Fair - $200.00
Birthday Diner and Betting - $305.00

SUNDAY
Breakfast for 2 - $11.50
New Collar for Walter - $30.00

TOTAL SPENDING = $1,430.31

*sigh* So much for controlled spending this week. I shouldn't be too hard on myself because it was my birthday week so I have allowed that to happen but apart from the big payments of the Mortgage, I think I did pretty well. Hopefully this week spending will be low as there is nothing big that I need to spend on. Cross my fingers everything will be ok.

I have decided to buy a share in my local CSA (Community Supported Agricultural). It's $270 for 13 weeks and that comes up to about $20.80 per week on fresh fruits and vegetables. Those of you in Perth that are interested you can find them HERE. I am going to try for 13 weeks and see how I feel about it. If I am happy then I will continue if not then I will leave it as that. It starts in June so I will blog about it when the time comes.

Spending Hiatus : Week 1

I did it. I went through my first week without spending a cent on "WANT" things and only spending what I needed. So here is the recap for the Week which also includes bill payments etc.

Monday.
Netball - $20
Gym - $28.50
Credit Card - $90.00
Internet - $69.98


Tuesday
Jenny Craig - $38.75 (for 3 days worth of food)


Wednesday
$0


Thursday
Groceries - $68.80
Bank Fees & Charges - $10.13

Friday
Weekly Dinner - $30.00
I owe Tiff some monies because we went to a fantastic place for dinner. Will blog about it in another post.


TOTAL SPENDING THIS WEEK = $356.16

Wow. I did good. My bank account is a little bit healthy and I hope this week things would look even better.

My challange for this week would be the Annual Craft Fair in Perth. I missed out last year. I can't remember why I did not go last year but I really want to go this year just to have a look see. I may refrain myself from buying things but I don't know if I can do that or not.

Also this week is my birthday week and we are going to have dinner at the Greyhound Tracks this Saturday. I have already allocated the budget there so no dramas.

So here is the forecast of this week's spending:-

• Netball - $10.00
• Birthday Dinner - $294.00
• Friday Night Dinner - $30.00
• Craft Fair - $15.00

Hopefully it will stay at a minimum.

It starts today...

My Spending Hiatus starts today. So far no urge to shop or buy anything yet. Maybe that's because I have not gone out of the office since this morning. All I know that today I will be spending at least $20 for netball. It's usually $10 but I owe a friend $10 because she paid for me last week.

Suzie of blah.suzie will also be joining me with this Hiatus. Head over to her blog to see how she is going.

If you are joining me, please let me know and I will add a link on my blog too.