Tag: money

the budget: how’d november go?

The answer is, not too well.  Or, not as well as I wanted it to?  We weren’t well for some of the month and that just leads to spending more on convenience foods.

So, we have the categories as follows:

rent ¥125,000

bills – electric, water, gas, mobiles and internet ¥50,000
–> Actually spent: ¥28,363 

supermarket ¥30,000
–> Actually spent: ¥34,903 (this is the one!!)

eating out/leisure ¥40,000
–> Actually spent: ¥26,864 (we did all right, still a lot of money if you consider it.  I’d ideally like it around the ¥20,000 mark)

husband ¥40,000
–> Actually spent: ¥50,000 (he ...

new budget: tokyo 2017


There is a new budget, it is being conducted whilst we’re living in Tokyo and it is 2017.
As such the title of this blog post is, ‘new budget: tokyo 2017’. Very snappy!

So, we have the categories as follows:

  • rent ¥125,000
  • savings
  • bills – electric, water, gas, mobiles and internet ¥50,000
  • supermarket ¥30,000
  • eating out/leisure ¥40,000
  • husband ¥40,000
  • emily (that’s me) ¥70,000
  • travel ¥10,000
  • miscellaneous ¥20,000

Savings separates into a few different categories:

  • christmas – presents we buy ¥10,000
  • christmas – to my mum for family ¥3,000
  • unexpected ¥5,000
  • travel ¥25,000
  • savings – not to be spent

I want ...