Creating my future, one miracle at a time

(stolen from a tote at Barnes & Noble)

If I get a little money, I buy books.

If there's any left,

I buy food and clothing.

Okay, 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.