Some of these expenses will be high, because we bought some things to get ready for Full-Timing, and also because we put the house on the market, so have to keep it clean and with everything working. Also did a bit of advertising for the home so the costs show up for that as well.

Note: F1 means what life energy we are spending for these amounts (remember, this is a three month period.) We figured out the life energy based on "Your Money or Your Life" book, I put it on the side so you can see it. Although I did not put the other parts of the book here - F2 -whether the cost was worth it to you, F3 - will you be spending the same amount next time, and F4 - is it part of your life goal, obviously some things are worth it to us, and some are not. 

 

Categories	Things Bought		Amount	FI 1
Food	Food & Household		808.71	42.54
	Meals to Go		385.98	20.30
Clothing	Both		26.59	1.40
Shelter	Mortgage		5,908.71	310.82
	Hotels		49.95	2.63
Utilities	Lawn Care		180.00	9.47
	Washington Gas		531.30	27.95
	Virginia Power		276.49	14.54
	Verizon Phone/DSL		271.56	14.29
	HOA		163.95	8.62
	Water/Sewer		68.01	3.58
Household Maintenance	Equipment		174.71	9.19
	Services		824.00	43.35
Transportation	Gas		303.02	15.94
	Diesel		394.77	20.77
	Tolls		10.00	0.53
	Maintenance		612.68	32.23
	Storage		148.50	7.81
ATV & Bike	Equipment		9,405.58	494.77
Communication	Postage		363.16	19.10
	Cell Phone		189.90	9.99
Health	Insurance		393.00	20.67
	Other		55.00	2.89
Recreation	Books/CDs		9.15	0.48
	Fun Stuff		91.07	4.79
	Newspaper		28.80	1.51
Gifts & Donations	March of Dimes		20.00	1.05
StT Work	Marketing		853.65	44.91
	Supplies		3.14	0.17
	Hosting		59.94	3.15
	Equipment		255.34	13.43
	client Wolfnet		198.00	10.42
Total Spent			23,064.65	1213.29

I also have within the expenses my company expenses, which you will see, will be going down as I slowly stop my business. Of course, you can see the reason we are selling, we are killing our life energy with the mortgage and all the utilities that go with it.

Under Transportation, we paid off the ATV that we had gotten last year and bought a motorcross bike for Sasha. That life energy was well spent, but thankfully we do not have to do that every year. The Health Insurance is just for me, as Sasha gets it through his work.

Household Maintenance is high because we are selling the home, and so the services - such as cleaning the home, advertising the home etc. is high. But I sold the home in April, and we closed in May, so next quarter will show an increase again in household expenses, but then...it does go down.

I thought it would be interesting to some to see how the expenses while living in a stick home compare to Full-Time RVing. So Check out Next Quarter: Expenses_Q2.