Annual accounts
2 May 2021 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI've been running my expenditure figures for the year. They add up to £9155·55 (which is not an accurate total, as there are a couple of hundred pounds' worth of tax outstanding, an indeterminate repair bill, and a quote for buildings insurance -- which I don't currently have -- of about six hundred pounds. On the other hand, £144 of music subscriptions have been refunded because I was unable to use them, which doesn't show up under the monthly breakdowns. So say about ten thousand pounds.)
The monthly breakdown under the main headings turns out to be as follows:
Although the monthly entries for "plants" and "computer" aren't really meaningful, since they represent a very small number of purchases averaged out over 12 months. (So does 'clothes', come to that -- it cost an awful lot to get one pair of welted shoes mended.)
The remaining £3,000 or so is taken up by one-off costs, such as insurance premiums, tax payments, plumbers, etc.
In comparison with last year I can see that my food costs have gone up considerably, thanks to no access to supermarkets (I was paying £85 a month for dairy and other food combined, as opposed to an average of £110 this year). On the other hand, I've spent zero on transport costs (in the absence of any maintenance work on my bicycle), on medical costs (no access to the dentist), and on entertainment (an average of £9 per month last year), and I'm no longer paying for five times the amount of gas I was actually using. Somehow or other my overall expenditure has still gone up by about fifteen hundred pounds... which is about what I spend on food in a year!
The monthly breakdown under the main headings turns out to be as follows:
| Average monthly expenditure | |
|---|---|
| Clothes | 18.36 |
| Computer | 72.01 |
| Dairy | 14.82 |
| Food | 95.24 |
| Household | 10.29 |
| Meat | 10.67 |
| Music | 124.96 |
| Plants | 1.13 |
| Utilities | 198.28 |
Although the monthly entries for "plants" and "computer" aren't really meaningful, since they represent a very small number of purchases averaged out over 12 months. (So does 'clothes', come to that -- it cost an awful lot to get one pair of welted shoes mended.)
The remaining £3,000 or so is taken up by one-off costs, such as insurance premiums, tax payments, plumbers, etc.
In comparison with last year I can see that my food costs have gone up considerably, thanks to no access to supermarkets (I was paying £85 a month for dairy and other food combined, as opposed to an average of £110 this year). On the other hand, I've spent zero on transport costs (in the absence of any maintenance work on my bicycle), on medical costs (no access to the dentist), and on entertainment (an average of £9 per month last year), and I'm no longer paying for five times the amount of gas I was actually using. Somehow or other my overall expenditure has still gone up by about fifteen hundred pounds... which is about what I spend on food in a year!
