Expensive

For a number of reasons, the last month has been idiotically expensive.  Some of it has been voluntary, some of it has been necessary. All of it has added up.

In the last month or so, it’s included…

• Four new tyres for the car (Necessary, as all four were getting close to their wear limits)
• MOT for the car (Necessary!) – thankfully, it only needed two new bulbs, so the MOT itself wasn’t all that expensive
• Car Insurance – (Necessary, but also Voluntary – I paid the entire lot at once, rather than monthly, which saved about £60)
• Tickets to see a band called The The in London next year (Entirely voluntary, of course)
• Tickets to see Macbeth at the RSC in Stratford-on-Avon next year (Also entirely voluntary)
• Tickets to see Titus Andronicus at the Barbican in London early next year (Voluntary)
• New walking boots (Necessary, considering the damage I sustained from the broken old ones)

And that doesn’t include all the usual stuff.

So yeah, fairly expensive. It’s all still within my budgets and limits, and the majority will be paid off this month – but all the same, it’ll be nice if I can have a quieter October and November, with less outgoings!