Spending Report for April 2011

May 18th, 2011 | 10:05 pm | Posted in Finance, Spending Report | 5 Comments »

Finally getting caught up with these Spending Reports…

They’re invaluable because they keep me honest — and I kept the past two months offline because, well, I knew the report wasn’t anything to be proud of.

So I’m just going to come out and say it — April will be my last month of total financial stupidity in 2011. I’m done.

Here are the numbers:

• $1937.90 : Hockey Jerseys
• $498.72 : Mortgage
• $271.65 : Gas
• $239.45 : Allstate Insurance
• $169.01 : Natural Gas
• $163.77 : Electricity
• $126.79 : Cable/Internet
• $79.45 : Business Expenses
• $77.27 : Babies-R-Us
• $44.50 : Toys-R-Us
• $40.00 : Cash
• $10.00 : Car Wash
• $3.00 : Bank of America Check Image Service Fee

Together that’s $3661.51.

Better than March.

Far better than February.

And still completely inexcusable…

I can’t justify the hockey jerseys. They’re a want, not a need. I wanted them and I bought them.

Stupid.

Take them out of the equation and I only spent $1723.

That’s a number I’d be proud of.

The rest is what it is… My auto insurance has climbed with the third vehicle on my policy and I’m obivously spending a lot more on gasoline drving the Land Rover instead of the Scion.

Granted, the gas expenditures in April were extraordinarily high and far from the norm — I can’t deny that the latest car is costing a lot more to operate than I’d expected. I guess that’s what happens when you’ve been getting 40 miles per gallon for years and years and years…