Mmm, Pie

At the end of every year, my credit card company provides me with a summary of my spending. They break up my purchases into the categories they think are appropriate, but it doesn’t quite match up with reality, so I converted the data from the PDF file into a Numbers spreadsheet. A difficult and time consuming task, I might add. (I might add, get it? Oh, puny!)

I digress. Because of this terrific document, I decided I’d put most of my purchases on my credit card, the only thing I do not charge is my daily coffee fix (that’s probably a large chunk of change, but is for another post). For your pleasure, I present my credit card spending habits from the year 2009:

In the figure above my spending habits are presented in two forms, the monthly totals are shown with the solid line histogram and the individual purchases that go into that monthly total are shown as data points (crosses).

Explanations of some of the peaks:

• April: car insurance
• June: I paid for two meals over 100 (to be fair, I was reimbursed)
• August: an expensive trip to Niagara on the Lake for a day of Noel Coward plays, totally worth it
• September: health insurance
• October: new Ipod Touch (reimbursed by Apple) and car insurance
• November: black Friday BluRay player
• December: Samsung Moment Android phone ($100 was reimbursed)

Colorful pie charts describing the allocation of my money:

Further breaking up the large categories above leads to:

I need to change my habits.

1. Very amusing.

   Comment by Julie — Thu 4 Feb 10 @ 8:58 PM

2. Thanks fishsticks.

   Comment by RUDY! — Tue 9 Feb 10 @ 8:24 PM