Diary of an up and coming sociopath

Ugh. If there’s one thing I don’t need, it’s a fire alarm 15 minutes before I’m about to leave work. It made me late leaving, that made me late getting on the tube, which was late due to signal failure, and then I was stuck inside a really crowded carriage barely able to move my limbs for 30 minutes on the way home. Besides that, it’s been a fine day though. I’ve mostly just been waiting for a hefty paycheque to arrive, which it should do tomorrow. Then I can go and buy that CD Stacking unit I’ve wanted since I bought a bookcase and discovered I didn’t have anywhere near enough space for my CDs.

My concept for this month, which I just came up with and we’ll have to see how well I stick to it, is to see how much I spent between this pay packet, and next. I was mildly concerned by how much I spent of what I was paid in December, though that did involve things like christmas and paying off some bills which I still owed for. I’m hoping/planning that this month will be far more frugal. Let’s see if I can’t budget this pay for a month in advance and see how well I do?

£368.00 - Rent. For the house I live in.
£125.00 - Travel: £25 a week on tube fares, and at least £25 on petrol seems generous enough for the month.
£66.00 - Council tax. Pays Ealing to leave a streetlamp nearby lit 24/7 since we moved in, and to cut down local trees.
£60.00 - Food. £15 a week is an accurate-to-generous allocation for what it costs me to eat.
£50.00 - Bills. i’m not sure what bills are coming in, but I’m sure this’ll be ample cover for them.
£25.00 - Probably about the minimum credit card payment I should make.
£20.00 - CD Stacking unit. Purchase and delivery.
£20.00 - Comics for the month. A necessity.

That’s a grand total of £734.00 that I’ll be spending. I consider this stuff to be the essentials, after I’ve bought myself a DVD or album or gone to a gig, that should leave me with around £300 by the end of the month, which I can put towards paying off my debts. Wow, this is going to be a fun experiment. I hope other people’s financial data doesn’t make you uncomfortable, because unless I get seriously bored, there’s going to be a lot of it in the coming weeks.