saved by13 people, first byRichard Hemmer on 2006-07-11, last byJason Liechty on 2008-08-02
- Bills: Rent, insurance, cable... this one's pretty obvious. If you know exactly how much it'll cost from month to month (give or take a few dollars), you can consider it a bill.
- Household: All of my groceries, along with every small household-related purchase fall under household.
- Entertainment: I lump movies, dining out (really any non-grocery-related food purchases), concert tickets, and most of my remaining non-essential purchases into entertainment.
- Car: I don't love devoting a whole category to my car, but with insanely fluctuating gas prices, it's worthwhile to keep track of how much money you're feeding to Big Oil every month.
- Miscellany: Any totally unplanned expense that doesn't seem to fit any other category falls into miscellany (if you have a lot of miscellany expenses, you probably need to find a new category).
