Spending Week in Review

Here's the weekly spending breakdown:

Monday- $25.00
Tuesday- $40.00
Wednesday- $5.00
Thursday- $0
Friday- $11.00
Saturday- $21.00
Sunday- $0

The total is $102. We can do better.

I shouldn't have to buy any more nicotine lozenges. I've still got over half the pack, and I've only taken two today. And since I haven't brought any cigarettes since Tuesday, that's at least $15 not spent. By the end of next week the lozenges will have paid for themselves.

What's most troubling is that we spent over 50% of that money on gasoline. Fifty-five dollars, to be exact. I hadn't realized we drove that much. Of course, some of that is still in the gas tank, but one gets the general idea.

On the bright side, we increased our earnings by $32.70 this week through babysitting and finding loose change.

I'm somewhat excited, because we have some money coming in that should move the balance up. The guy I work for owes me at least $100, my sister owes me $160, and my wife will save another $200 this Friday. So that's (eventually) a $460 swing in the right direction. But for now, it's pretty constant.

I've decided to put $40 of the $60 we have into "savings," so we'll only touch it in an emergency.

Total savings: $3,170.36