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Financial Statistics
Jan. 9th, 2008 08:47 pmOkay, here's a little trivia, looking at my monthly card bill. This will be about 99% of what we spend in a month, excluding mortgage, car payments, and church offerings
There were 125 transactions.
92% are less than $100.
Of those 8% over the magic line:
one is a one-time oral surgeon cost,
3 are college costs related,
one is the monthly cable/phone/internet bill,
2 are groceries
3 are Christmas related.
More than half of the transactions are less than $20.
23% are actually less than $5 ! (yes folks, almost a quarter of the time when I use my card it is less than $5) Cash? What's that?
14% are at BurgerKing (most for less than $5. I can identify 10 of them as being either one or two Dr. Peppers in the drive thru)
34% are at Restaurants in general, mostly fast food.
Throw in supermarkets, and that makes a total of
42% of the transactions involved with food.
Now, I'll just need to actually nail down the dollar amounts as percentages, and I'll be on my way to that BUDGET I resolved to make. I'm going to be really peeved to find out that a measurable amount of my food budget is King-sized Dr. Pepper at BK.
There were 125 transactions.
92% are less than $100.
Of those 8% over the magic line:
one is a one-time oral surgeon cost,
3 are college costs related,
one is the monthly cable/phone/internet bill,
2 are groceries
3 are Christmas related.
More than half of the transactions are less than $20.
23% are actually less than $5 ! (yes folks, almost a quarter of the time when I use my card it is less than $5) Cash? What's that?
14% are at BurgerKing (most for less than $5. I can identify 10 of them as being either one or two Dr. Peppers in the drive thru)
34% are at Restaurants in general, mostly fast food.
Throw in supermarkets, and that makes a total of
42% of the transactions involved with food.
Now, I'll just need to actually nail down the dollar amounts as percentages, and I'll be on my way to that BUDGET I resolved to make. I'm going to be really peeved to find out that a measurable amount of my food budget is King-sized Dr. Pepper at BK.