Cooper Household Expenses List

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Cooper household expenses (as of March 2014)

Fixed monthly expenses

£1 is roughly $1.70 for any nosey types

• Mortgage - £510
• Water - £36
• TV license - £12
• Electricity and gas - £74
• Home insurance - £28
• Satellite / Sky TV - £38
• Google Music - £10
• Broadband - £44
• Wife’s mobile - £22
• My mobile - £17
• Contact lenses - £16 (cancel soon)
• Council tax - £94
• Netflix - £6
• Xbox Live - £5 (cancel this!)
• Spotify - £5 (student rate, woo!)
• Gym / country club (family) - £116

.. wife pays for all groceries, children’s activities, clothes, etc. from her own salary

Monthly approximates (mostly annual or varying wildly)

• Car fuel (both cars) - £300
• Wife’s car insurance - £50
• My car insurance - £22
• Wife’s car tax - £41
• My car tax - £18
• Wife’s car servicing - £30
• My car servicing - £20
• MSc tutorial fees - £230
• Life insurance - £..can’t find..

Self-employed business (not Cooper Press)

Try to gradually phase out all of these..

• HMRC C2 NIC - £10
• Dreamhost - £7
• Wufoo (for client) - £18
• Wufoo (for self) - £9
• S3 (for backups) - £6
• Linode (for clients & self) - £118
• CPanel - £10
• Github - £5
• Domain names - £..unknown..

most of the above are tax deductible