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 ...