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Expenses Quarter 3 - 2008

Some of these expenses will be high, because September was an expensive month, plus food expenses are up. Also, Sasha is driving/riding a slightly further distance, so the gas prices are a little more, but utilities are nonexistent. We also paid personal property tax in September, so over $1K was to that alone.

We had an expensive couple of months for food, both in regular food and meals to go, I bought bunches of provisions and got tons (OK Bushels and bushels of peaches - they were so unbelievably good) and dried them up to have in the winter. So hopefully this winter, likely in January and February, we will be having peaches that were dried this past summer. So expensive now, cheap later.

Gas prices got really high during these months and so it is reflected in the Transportation costs. We spent almost $1K on gas or diesel for those three months. And like I stayed before, we paid Personal Property Tax in September, plus Vehicle Insurance for the next 6 months. So OUCH for September.

We decided to join a gym in September as well, so the month of October would be paid for in September. Plus they got us for initiation fees and other stuff. But it is month to month so there is something good out of it. Sasha's FSA - Federal Saving Account for health ran out back in June, so we had to pay for his dental work, next year we need to add just a little bit more so that we are covered.

We did some fun stuff, check out July, August and September pages to see what fun things we were doing, plus, there were several birthdays during those months, so gifts were given. Lots of Kiddies having birthdays, always a good thing.

We did have a ding on our American Express card, I talked about this in September, so I won't go into it here. But that was the charge for a couple of hours. Real Nice, huh?

An Expensive quarter, hopefully the last quarter of the year will be better. Check out the Last Quarter of 2008.

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.