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What are your biggest spending categories?

  1. Alivoo01

    wonderful olive / 19353 posts

    Definitely eating out. It's so dang convenient and "inexpensive" ($10-$20 for all 3 of us) until you eat out 3-4x a week here and there, then get your credit card bill and you're all like

  2. T.H.O.U.

    wonderful clementine / 24134 posts

    @Alivoo01: Thats exactly us! Oh, we will eat out "cheap" like Chipotle. But it still adds up!

  3. T.H.O.U.

    wonderful clementine / 24134 posts

    So I need to get back to YNAB for September so I was playing with some numbers.

    60% of our take home income is spent on Mortgage (22%), Daycare (20%), Car Payments (8%) and utilities bills (10%).

    So although food does seem like a lot of money, its really only about 10% of our take home.

  4. CakeLady

    pear / 1657 posts

    Daycare
    Dogs - dog walker, food, boarding when we go out of town, and vet bills for two dogs is SO much money especially one of our dogs has recently had some major health issues
    Food

  5. snowjewelz

    wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts

    Besides mortgage/car payment...

    FOOD! Groceries and eating out. And it will be daycare soon enough!

  6. Mamaof2

    squash / 13208 posts

    Food!

    In my quest to eat healthier the bill has risen a lot! Its expensive to eat healthy

  7. PurplePumps

    pomegranate / 3809 posts

    Medical bills.

  8. littlebug

    honeydew / 7504 posts

    Daycare. It's manageable with one kid. With 2 it's going to be like another mortgage payment.

  9. youboots

    honeydew / 7622 posts

    @StbHisMrs: I have not but I'll check it out. We get a 1/4 beef as needed so it's rarely meat. More just random good deals last time it was air filters and a feather pillow. Oh Costco.

  10. DillonLion

    GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts

    Our transportation cost is really high. No car payments but we have monster commutes up and down a tollway each day. Leads to more gas, more tolls, and more maintenance.

  11. Crystal

    grapefruit / 4028 posts

    We don't have kids, or in sure it would be daycare. FOOD is definitely the biggest budget buster for us. I especially hate when we buy healthy and then eat out and it goes to waste.

  12. Mrs. Lemon-Lime

    wonderful pea / 17279 posts

    Food!

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