This is officially the most boring member of the ahook blogosphere.
$3 - Coffee
$7 - Lunch at Toaster Over
$24 - Dinner at Irving Pizza
Starting the new month!
09/01
$9 - Stamps
$8 - Lunch at Toaster Oven
$4 - Coffee
$4 - Groceries
Retroactively for 08/31 (already included in the rundown below):
$20 - Beer and sausage and buns
Unless I missed something, this was a good month!! I made it in just over my target (not including gifts, which are not listed explicitly).
Goal for August: $1,000
Actual Total for August: $1,037
Here's the break-down:
$392 - Dining out
$86 - Entertainment, concerts, CDs, books, movies, etc.
$22 - Miscellaneous expenses
$111 - Drinks, beer, happy hours
$131 - Groceries and necessities
$60 - Coffee
$39 - Snacks, chips, soda, etc.
$6 - ATM fees
$43 - Medical expenses
$121 - Clothes
$8 - Lottery tickets
$61 - Travel
$24 - Essentially thrown away
$x - Gifts/charity
08/31
$2 - Coffee (shortchanged them because I was low on cash...)
$9 - Lunch at Chipotle
08/30
$6 - Lunch at Harvest and Rowe
$3 - Coffee
$14 - Breakfast at the Pork Store
$8 - Band-Aids, Candy, toilet paper
$7 - Farmer's market
Saturday:
$2 - Soda
$31 - Books
$8 - Junk food (not including the aforementioned soda and soon-to-be-mentioned beer and tacos)
$11 - Beer
$7 - Tacos
Forgot to mention an ATM fee from a couple days ago.
$3 - ATM fee
I've managed to only have the one fee this month, which is a huge step up from the 8 or so I generally have.
Also:
$3 - Coffee
$10 - Prescription co-pay
$9 - Lunch at Chipotle
$132 - Dinner at Absinthe
08/25
$1 - Soda
$7 - Lunch at Toaster Oven (need to start making my own again!)
$3 - Coffee
08/24
$61 - Excursion
$3 - Coffee
$7 - Lunch at Toaster Oven
$x - Gift
$4 - Study deeds
$2 - Socks and underwear at Gap
$5 - Jamba Juice
$17 - Book
$11 - Book for school charity
$17 - Lunch at Gott's
$2 - Ginger beer
$4 - Nutter Butters and Dr. Pepper
$3 - Scratch-off lottery tickets
$2 - Coffee
$3 - Candy (gift)
$24 - Tickets to the Mystery Spot (unused)
08/20
$6 - Coffee
$1 - Chips
$12 - Lunch at Harvest and Rowe
$20 - Dinner at Ploy II
$11 - CDs at Amoeba
$25 - Drinks at Hobson's Choice
08/19
$3 - Coffee
$25 - Groupon for the Gap ($50 value)
This might be the best day of the month so far, barring any unforeseen purchases tonight:
$3 - Coffee
Someday soon I will post a more interesting post!
$3 - Coffee
$9 - Lunch at Chipotle
$3 - Laundry
$2 - Ginger Ale
Yesterday was a pretty good day!
$3 - Coffee
$10 - Dinner at Sam Wo
I want to just hide this one away in the comments, but:
$7 - Lunch at McDonald's
$2 - Chips and soda
$7 - Insecticide
$0 - Venus Fly Trap
$34 - Dinner at Roam
$3 - Coffee
$9 - Lunch at Chipotle
Pretty good day today!
$3 - Coffee
$7 - Beer
Paring things down to the bare essentials.
08/10
$3 - Coffee
$3 - Lunch
Man, everything just fell apart in the last few days. That sickness I had just kept lingering on (maybe I should change this to a sickness blog) and my laptop has all but died (and with it my internet access). I'll try to remember some spending now:
08/09
$9 - Breakfast at Emma's
$9 - Lunch at Toaster Oven
$3 - Coffee
08/08
$8 - Farmer's market
$25 - Groceries
$11 - Lunch at Buckhorn
$3 - Laundry
$72 - Clothes at Ben Sherman
08/07
$22 - Clothes at American Apparel
And there was some more on the 7th but I can't remember it right now. Not an especially good spending streak, particularly with the clothing purchases. But since I so rarely buy new clothes, this is okay.
End of pretty boring blog entry.
Had a cheap, sitting-on-the-couch-sick day today.
$3 - Soda
Probably going out for a fast-casual dinner. It'll appear in the comments. (After the jump? Is that what bloggers say?)
One more medical expense today, a co-pay for some Amoxicillin that I may or may not use. I don't know if it's a sign of my Getting Older or a sign of my Being More Responsible About My Health, but I've had more medical expenses in the last month or two than I've had in the last decade. (Note that I haven't had a physical in the last decade and generally ignore symptoms (which probably means the new expenses are not a result of Being Responsible)).
$10 - Copay for antibiotics
I also made a split-trip to the cornershop. It's kind of half lunch, half groceries, half snacks. Here's how I'll break it down:
$6 - Snacks
$5 - Groceries
I realize now that that loaf of bread was pretty expensive.
I felt fine for most of the day yesterday but then a sore throat starting a-brewing in the evening. I woke up today with a pretty severe sore throat, called in sick to work, and took a trip down to the nearest urgent care facility (a 25min bus-ride away). The doctor was pretty awesome: he sported a North Face jacket, was chatty in a friendly way, and explained all kinds of good stuff. Chances are I just have a virus (was worried maybe strep throat) but he prescribed me some Amoxicillin in case it doesn't go away on its own.
$15 - Office visit co-pay
When I got home, I was pretty hungry, having not eaten all day. For some reason when I'm home sick, instead of eating super healthy food to aid in my recovery, I gravitate toward the absurdly unhealthy.
$7 - Lunch at (earmuffs, Jaime) McDonald's
I took a stroll through the Farmer's Market afterwards but there was a cold blustery wind blowing up a gale, so I left without buying anything.
$0 - Farmer's Market
Also, I got drinks last night with Josh and Andrew in Nob Hill, which was a lot of fun. Glad I got to see him again before he returned to the Midwest. But those three beers probably didn't do my worsening throat condition any good.
Went out for lunch with Josh today! This is an acceptable exception to the Not Going Out For Lunch plan.
$16 - Lunch at Out the Door
$3 - Coffee
And I got a coffee on the way back. Not Going Out For Coffee has not started yet. But it needs to. Going out for drinks will be later tonight, which doesn't count as Going Out For Drinks because, again, it's with out-of-town visitors.
Today was the first day of Not Going Out For Lunch. It was a success. I did however, go out for coffee.
$3 - Coffee
And, while I've got you on the horn, I'd also like to mention that I was a runner-up in a Ke$ha contest at Amoeba. First prize included tickets to her concert and some other stuff. Second prize (my prize) was an autographed Ke$ha CD and an Amoeba tote-bag. Which is pretty awesome, since, not long before entering the drawing, I was almost going to buy a used copy of the CD from Amoeba. At the time I thought $9 was too much and that it would probably drop to $5 in a couple months. This has nothing to do with the story of my winning the CD, except that it shows that I wasn't just blindly entering contests. I will post a picture of my winnings later tonight. On the Facebook.
Getting the month started off right... sort of.
$7 - McDonald's
$45 - Groceries! (including lunch supplies)
I just collapsed all the entries for the month so far into reasonable categories and summed things up. Here's some of that summary (using per-day averages to predict numbers for a full month):
In one month, I spent an average of about $50 a day.
Breakdown for a month:
$440 - Dining out
$300 - Entertainment, concerts, CDs, books, movies, etc.
$245 - Other expenses, furniture, gifts, repairs, etc.
$205 - Drinks, beer, happy hours
$123 - Groceries and necessities
$60 - Coffee
$37 - Snacks, chips, soda, etc.
$32 - ATM fees
$25 - Taxi cabs
These numbers are both unsurprising and appalling. July's official spending is going to be announced as $1500. And this is excluding "essential" monthly bills such as rent, PG&E, etc. Going to shoot for $1000 in August.
I went through my checking account history and added up my ATM fees for the month (excluding the one that I remembered to actually record here). It's a little stupid:
$24 - ATM fees
I could be saving a quick $25 if I stopped going to ATMs every few days. Or at least started going to my own bank's ATMs. Done.
Also:
$3 - Coffee
$1 - Soda
$3 - Coffee
$8 - Toaster Oven
This is actually for today:
$6 - Coffee
$9 - Lunch at Chipotle
This is for yesterday:
$2 - Coffee
$7 - McDonald's (yeah, shut up)
$12 - Beer and toilet paper (unrelated)
$8 - Fish and chips
$11 - Inception
$5 - Claw machines
$7 - Toaster Oven
$30 - Breakfast at All You Knead
$7 - Dinnerish at Catch Isle
$25 - Groceries
$170 - Concert tickets (well, mostly fees associated with concert tickets. Ticketmaster is ludicrous. They charge you a "convenience" fee of about $12 PER TICKET, then charge you for an overall servive fee of $6 and then if you want to do anything bu USPS delivery, they charge you for that ($2.50 to print your tickets... SRSLY??))
$16 - Gott's (née Taylor's Automatic Refresher)
$20 - Farmer's market
$xx - Raccoon skull
This is for July 23:
$3 - Coffee
$8 - Toaster Oven
$105 - Happy hour
$3 - ATM fee
This blog is getting boring and repetitive.
$1 - Soda
$3 - Coffee
This has nothing to do with spending and everything to do with keeping track of events. I'm going to list out all the places I should regularly check for events because I always end up forgetting something and then missing something:
City Lights
Green Apple Books
Booksmith
Book Passage
Alexander Book Company
Cafe du Nord
Bottom of the Hill
The Fillmore
The Warfield
Mezzanine
Great American Music Hall
The Independent
Bimbo's 365
Amoeba
Commonwealth Club
$3 - Coffee
$1 - Donut
$9 - Chipotle
$3 - Coffee
$8 - Toaster Oven
This is for July 19th:
$3 - Coffee
$9 - Chipotle
This is for July 18th:
$2 - Chips and soda
$2 - Perrier
$6 - Candy bars
$40 - dinner at Volare
This is for July 17th:
$8 - Toaster Oven
$12 - Taxi cab
$1 donut
$9 lunch at Portico
$5 on coffee
$8 on lunch at Harvest and Rowe
$3 on a candy bar (way too expensive)
A little late on posting this...
$8.00 on Toaster Oven
$3.00 on coffee
Looks like I spent a total of $400 last week. A goodly amount of that is spent on going out to eat and drink. I'm going to do a two-week non-drinking plan now, not just to save the money, but also because I'm running a 5k in two weeks and plans to demolish my previous PR.
Today I spent $9 on breakfast at Boulange and $3 on a cup of delicious Blue Bottle Coffee. I'm guessing that the post-mortem on this week's spending will be to reduce my intake of yuppie drip coffee.
$9 on groceries
$3 on chips and soda pop
I'm noticing a trend here re: soda pop.
$23 on brunch at Zazie
$15 on used CDs at Amoeba
$4 on candy bars and soda pop
Two coffees and a donut: $5
You may know that I love Chipotle for many reasons. Here's one more: this morning I was the first in the store (about 5 minutes after they'd opened). They were still setting up all the stations, getting rice together, etc. and so I had to wait for maybe 5 or 6 minutes before they could take my order. Once I got to the register, they were like: "You know, this one's on the house. You shouldn't have to wait". Am I right?? I left them a $2 tip and then bought a $3 coffee in the alleyway behind my work.
Another day, another dollar. Spent $8 on lunch (Toaster Oven) and $1 on a bag of chips.
Average day so far today: $9 for a burrito and $3 for a coffee.
Also, that CD shelf I bought yesterday was pre-built, made of wood, and large enough to hold 500 CDs. I had to carrying the thing up to the counter at Amoeba to checkout and then carry the thing back to my apartment through the Haight. It wasn't fun. BUT: teh CD shelf is awesome! It smells like sawdust.
This will be another short-lived niche-blog. Kind of want to track my spending here, starting... now. So far: $0.00!
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