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Expenses

December 20, 2007 on 7:37 pm | In Life |

December is of course very well known for being a month in which one spends quite a bit of money, be it for Christmas, Sinterklaas or new year’s eve (i.e. fireworks, drinks and food).

I don’t celebrate Christmas with presents, and I don’t tend to be the one who’s paying for the food. Fireworks look nice but I think they’re a bit of a waste of money, I usually just watch other people’s money shoot up into the air.

None the less, December’s been a bit of an expensive month for me. My new laptop was bought for me by my father because I mainly need it for my studies, but even so I spent quite a bit of ‘dosh’:

Product or Service	Cost
Xbox 360 Supersize pack + Xbox 360 VGA AV cable	€429
Laptop bag (backpack)	€110
Cafeteria food, phone bill, usenet access, travel, etc.	~€90
Total expenses	€629

And today I decided to go buy Guitar Hero III because I had been playing it with a normal xbox 360 controller but some of the songs were already impossible at Medium difficulty, so I wasn’t really going to try hard without a Guitar Controller. Add another 85 euros to the total expenses.

I think I may need to draw on some of my savings for just a little while so I don’t enter 2008 with my bank balance in the red.