PERSONAL EXPENSES FOR JAMES PARK




FOR MYSELF
 2007
 2008
 2009
 2010
 2011
SHELTER




Condo Association Fee
 2482
 2500
 2400
 3000
electricity
 250
 243
 192
 206
natural gas
 259
 245
 218
 194
telephone services
 150
 100
 120
 50
internet access
 90
 90
 96
 0
property taxes
 260
 444
 478
 446






food
 568
 632
 616
 589
transportation and travel
 100
 101
 125
 170
entertainment & misc.
 197
 247
 9
 65
TOTAL PERSONAL EXPENSES
 4356
 4602
 4254
 4720






FOR OTHERS
 2007
 2008
 2009
 2010
 2011
food for family
 1642
 1064
 731
 655
gifts for family
1555
 602
 272
 660
support for service organizations:




public radio
 84
 120
 120
 120
public television
 50
 50
 50
 50
Unitarian Universalism
 220
 160
 160
 470
University of Minnesota Alumni Association
 50
 50
 50
 50
TOTAL FOR OTHERS
 3601
 2046
 1383
 2005
GRAND TOTALS---FOR SELF + OTHERS
 7957
 6648
 5637
 6725

Note concering food expenses:
The numbers provided cover only food consumed at home,
which is about half of all food eaten.
The other half is eaten with my voluntary famly,
which appears above as "food for family".
Thus anyone looking for a total food cost per year for myself
would simply double the amount listed as "food".
This amounts to about $100 per month.

For future years, this bookkeeping will be done differently:
A new item will appear: food away from home,
which is more comparable with how others buy food.
The total food away from home will be about $100 per month.
And the item here called "food for family" will disappear.
Food eaten at home will continue to be about $50 per month. 


Go to a course description for a seminar called :
Voluntary Poverty:
How to Simplify Your Life

If you would like to know how I save money on electricity, for example
(now down to $17 per month), go to:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/CY-ELEC.html
This on-line essay is called:
"Using Electric Bills to Make Everyone More Green".

If you would like to read some books on simplifying your life,
go to the Simplicity Bibliography:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/%7Eparkx032/B-SIMP.html

If you like these simplicity book reviews,
here are 350 more book reviews,
organized into 60 other bibliographies:
Book Review Index.

Go to cyber-sermons by James Park,
organized into 10 subject-areas.

Go to the opening page for this website:
An Existential Philosopher's Museum
This website now has over 1,000 'rooms'.
And all of the ideas are free.




The views and opinions expressed in this page are strictly those of the page author.
The contents of this page have not been reviewed or approved by the University of Minnesota.