J.C.’s Money Blog

I just set up my Microsoft Money file to tally up my spending for the month. Ouch! I estimated I could live on about $500 this month, but after only 12 days, I have already managed to spend over $500. I had some unexpected expenses to the tune of about $150, and I also blew about another $100 on things I wanted now instead of waiting for some of my personal effects to be delivered.

At this rate, I am set to spend $1,200 in January, which is well over twice the amount I had anticipated…

Tracking all the expenses was pretty easy, setting up all the accounts and adding in all the expenses for 2 weeks took about an hour and a half.