February 2012 Spending
Feb 1 - $27 lunch
Feb 1 - $30 book
Feb 1 - $126 bus pass
Feb 2 - $2 coffee, necessary for an important meeting
Feb 2 - $30 taxi, necessary for meeting believe it or not
Feb 2 - $37 groceries
Feb 2 - $10 dinner
Feb 3 - $60 cell phone
Feb 3 - $8.50 taxi
Feb 5 - $21 taxi
Feb 6 - $9.50 smokes (ugghhh)
Feb 6 - $4 coffee
Feb 7 - $27 dinner (late night at office)
The good news is, I’m living off the cash I make at Side Hustle #1, so this should control spending, keeping it under control.
The end of the month is the RRSP deadline and I plan on making a $5k contribution (I wanted more, orignally…). So far I have about $2k cash for it. I perhaps can scrape together another $1.5k, leaving me with drawing $1.5 from my line of credit. Not as bad as I thought, as long as I stick to this plan :)
Feb 9 - $9 lunch
Feb 9 - $5 course
Feb 9 - $30 drinks
Feb 10 - $8 lunch
Feb 10 - $50 drinks with colleagues
Feb 10 - $8 taxi
Feb 11 - $27 brunch
Feb 11 - $11 wine
Feb 11 - $10 taxi
Feb 13 - $30 personal care (organic cold-pressed coconut oil and almond oil, both of which I use as hair and body face moisturizer…the tubs should last at least 4 - 6 months…I should do a post on skincare products for the ERE woman).
Feb 13 - $33 groceries
Feb 13 - $10 wine
Let’s pause here for a moment. A quick gaze tells me that I’ve probably spent about $600 so far. Which pretty much means that aside from the $8 taxi rides from my Side Hustle, I only have enough room left for my gym membership (still need to cancel), housing expense and cell phone.
Duly noted.
Feb 14 - $68 (65% off) nice boots to tied me over until I can afford quality ones in June
Feb 15 - $96 lux duvet cover and sham. Was 50% off.
Feb 16 - $78 drinks (end of work sendoff #1)
Feb 16 - $904 membership dues. I was debating letting go of this pretentious arts membership for a while, but then, the organizers of a huge cultural festival reached out to me about introducing me to the club to use their venue. So I get sucked back in. One day, I’d like to write a post musing about the pros and cons of paying nearly $1k each year to be a part of this thing.
Feb 17 - $25 drinks, dinner (end of work sendoff #2)
Feb 17 - $1.50 tea
Feb 17 - $37 groceries
Feb 18 - $1.50 tea
Feb 18 - $8 taxi
Feb 19 - $20 drinks #1
Feb 19 - $60 drinks #2
Feb 19 - $40 event tickets
Feb 19 - $6 coatcheck at event
Feb 19 - $20 taxi home
Feb 20 - $1.50 tea
Feb 21 - $4 lunch
Feb 21 - $2 coffee
Feb 21 - $45 cell phone
Feb 21 - $55 gym
