Here is a breakdown of my expenses for September.
Household |
$406.98 |
Entertainment |
$54.61 |
Transportation |
$601.89 |
Food |
$84.33 |
Medical/Dental |
$61.66 |
Phone |
$11.77 |
Education |
$52.20 |
Debt |
$173.00 |
Total |
$1446.44 |
My expenses were a little high this month. That was mainly due to my car purchase. I left out the cost of the car purchase to keep my monthly figure from being skewed too much. I did count the expense of sales tax, registration, and insurance though which caused my transportation expense to be high. I should get my expenses back down to the $1000 level this month.
At the end of October my car had a cost per mile of $4.98. That isn’t too bad considering I had only had it a couple weeks. By the end of this month that figure should be way down. If I were to take out the purchase price from my total car cost I would obviously have a much cheaper cost per mile. Even though I could probably sell my car for close to what I bought it I am going to keep the purchase cost in my total cost since I plan to drive the car until it is near worthless.