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Expenses Quarter 4 - 2008

Some of these expenses will be high, because November 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 paid for three months of rent in November, so that month was a bit on the high side.

This quarter, we started eating some of those provisions that I had bought in previous quarters and months. I started noticing prices were going up, and it made no sense buying things that we already had. Sasha also felt, why carry around stuff, is it really worth its weight in gasoline money? I'm sure the apples and peaches dried last quarter will come in handy this quarter and in the coming quarters. So you can see the prices for Food & Household have gone down, but the Meals to Go food went up from last quarter. This is because we started eating out more especially in December.

Gas prices got started to go down during this quarter. Partly because we moved, and so had a shorted commuting distance for Sasha, and partly because of the lower prices for gas. We also took the truck on several longer trips in November and December, so diesel prices were up.  

In October, we got some gift cards and since I started working at the museum, I had to have some nice clothes. So we spent over the gift cards. As this is the first time this year on buying clothes, it is not too bad. We also bought work-out clothes because we joined a gym.

So we used the gym in October and November, then found the leak in November, which was not good, but we got it to the place to get fixed and got the trailer fixed as well. That is the trailer expense that we had. Really, it should have gone under Maintenance, rather than equipment, but oh well.

We did some fun stuff, especially in October and December, check out those pages to see what fun things we were doing, plus, there were several birthdays and Christmas during those November and December, so gifts were given. Lots of Kiddies having fun, always a good thing.

So this was an Expensive quarter because we paid full rent for three months, otherwise it would have been on par with last quarter, hopefully the next quarter will be lower. However, for this year, I put in the yearly expenses, no verbiage, just the expenses. You can check it out on the Expenses Year 2008.

Check out the new quarter of 2009.

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.