31 Days to Financial Freedom, Day 23: Last week in review

I lied!  The homemade tortilla tutorial will be tomorrow's post.  In flipping through my pictures, I realized I didn't take any pictures of the actual tacos done, but since we're making them again tonight (very excited!), I'll take some more pictures so you can see the finished product.

I do this thing where I audit my spending at the end of every week.  For me, a week runs from Sunday to Saturday, just for simplicity sake.  This is an audit of our spending from October 14 - October 20.

Debit	-21.22	Groceries -   IGA	10/14/2012	354.19
Debit	-49.11	Fuel - A	10/14/2012	305.08
Auto	-94.87	Car Insurance	10/15/2012	210.21
Debit	-1.69	Snacks	10/15/2012	208.52
Auto	-59.76	Student Loan - A	10/16/2012	148.76
Debit	-1.69	Snacks	10/15/2012	147.07
1099	-40.00	Babysitting	10/15/2012	107.07
Debit	-32.44	Fuel - Me	10/17/2012	74.63
Debit	-1.69	Snacks	10/17/2012	72.94
Deposit	331.47	Paycheck - A	10/18/2012	404.41
Debit	-33.69	Groceries - Walmart	10/18/2012	370.72
Debit	-1.79	Groceries - D&R (AP Flour)	10/18/2012	368.93
Debit	-6.82	Groceries - IGA	10/18/2012	362.11
Debit	-5.00	Groceries - Family Express (Milk)	10/18/2012	357.11
Debit	-3.21	Eating out - Pizza Hut	10/18/2012	353.90
Debit	-4.71	Eating out - McDonalds	10/18/2012	349.19
Auto	-317.61	Car Payment	10/18/2012	31.58
Deposit	973.97	Paycheck - Me	10/19/2012	1005.55
Auto	-200.00	First Federal	10/19/2012	805.55
Auto	-40.00	Account #2	10/19/2012	765.55
Debit	-16.77	Eating out - Pizza Hut	10/19/2012	748.78
Debit	-24.60	Diapers	10/20/2012	724.18
Debit	-29.28	Joann Fabrics - Halloween	10/20/2012	694.90
Debit	-11.24	Lowe's (Dryer)	10/20/2012	683.66
Debit	-191.89	Couch	10/20/2012	491.77
Debit	-0.95	Snacks	10/20/2012	490.82
Debit	-25.00	Fuel - Me	10/20/2012	465.82
Debit	-6.93	Ace (Dryer)	10/20/2012	458.89
Debit	-14.96	Halloween	10/20/2012	443.93
1100	-29.00	Chinese Food	10/20/2012	414.93
Deposit	29.00	Deposit for Chinese Food	10/20/2012	443.93

Our income for the week was $1305.44, which was under for what I had budgeted.  My husband came home early from work sick on day, cutting his paycheck by about $70.  Not good! 

We spent $68.52 on groceries, $31.48 under budget.  Woohoo!

We reached our budgeted amount for snacks this week.  In total, we spent $6.02.  This was mainly because of the baseball games I was watching every night.  $1.69 will buy my husband and I two 32 oz. sodas.  OR we could buy a 2 liter for $1.  Doy!

We have also reached our budgeted amount for eating out for October.  We bought pizza one night, and then ate out one other time.  We also purchased Chinese food, but we were reimbursed for that in cash.  Free meal!

I also forgot to pay our daycare bill that week.  Duh!  So two checks will be on the next week's register. 

Our car payment was $34 more this month because we had previously made two late payments (after the 10 day grace period), and had to pay late fees.  I love throwing money away!

Income:    $1,305.44
Expenses: $1236.92

So it wasn't a super successful week, but it wasn't a fail either!  Auditing our expenses really helps me to see where we're at with our money, and how we can do better.  I hope you'll try it with your own spending!