Growing Money

2005 1st Quarter Expenses

Here's a report of the monthly expenses year-to-date.

Expenses	Jan-05	Feb-05	Mar-05	Total
Bills	640	644	708	1,991
Entertainment	224	101	236	561
Food	326	270	461	1,057
Gifts	200	214	200	614
Medical/Dental	70	306	55	431
Shopping	253	204	-108	350
Taxes	693	702	833	2,228
Transportation	105	111	115	331
Others	265	150	158	573
Total Expenses	2,775	2,703	2,659	8,137

Bills - Utilities/Rent Entertainment - Movies/Social Events Food - Groceries, Dining out, any thing I eat Gifts - Money or expenses of gifts I give to others Medical/Dental - Premium, co-payments, prescriptions Shopping - Clothes, computer stuff, anything I buy Taxes - Federal, State, Local, FICA Transportation - Traveling Expenses I ran this report in MS Money, which I use to keep of my daily expenses. The only thing I don't like is that the report does not show the money I pay back to my student loans. It only shows the interest, and counts the principal repayments as a transfer from my checking account to my loan account, so I manually added that to the report above. (It's included in the Others field. My minimum payment is low.) My food expenses went up a lot last month, because I have been eating out more. I usually dine out more during spring and summer. As for gifts, I give $200 minimum to my parent every month. My health expenses shot up in February due to my prescriptions. It's interesting that I had a negative amount under Shopping in March. That's because I returned something I purchased in February. My taxes withholdings went up slightly in February b/c my company is paying for gym and I have to pay taxes on that. In March, I got a pay raise, and that increased my tax withholdings significantly -- 18%.

posted by Sean @ 4/11/2005 01:00:00 PM