How much DID you spend on tea in 2014?

Hmmm, not keeping within my budget very well. Oh well, there’s always next year.

Jan = 166.45
Feb = 161.01
Mar = 99.00
Apr = 225.00
May = 120.00
Jun = 101.00
Jul = 90.00
Aug = 160.00
Sep = 97.37
Oct = 20.00
Nov = 74.00

Total to date: 1313.83 (!!!)

January – $35.90
February – $14.45
March – $15.00
April- $66.55
May – $3
June – $0
July – $27.95
August- $15.40
September – $24.00
October – $19.50

Total this year $221.75

(My budget for the year was estimated at $200. I surpassed that amount in September. I’m averaging $22.18 per month now. If I keep going at this rate this rate, I will have spent a total of $266.10 by the end of Dec. I bet I reach $300 though.)

November Update

(Budget: $50/mo, total $600)
January Total: $77
February Total: $78
March Total: $41
April Total: $50
May Total: $17
June Total: $55
July Total $17
August Total $17
September Total $79
October Total $53
Running total: $484

current year total is $478.02 and my original budget was $450
I don’t have any plans for December spending though, so I think I did pretty well this year. :)

Since it is the last day of November, I am going to go ahead and do my December update…

November Update

(Budget: $50/mo, total $600)
January Total: $77
February Total: $78
March Total: $41
April Total: $50
May Total: $17
June Total: $55
July Total $17
August Total $17
September Total $79
October Total $53
November Total $185 (ohhhh, Europe. And not a single BF purchase!)
Running total: $669

Officially over budget with my European purchases, but I expect only a single $17 charge for the rest of the year, so I at least got close.

I was doing really great this year until I discovered pu-erh tea. $189 through August, out of a $500 budget. $597 since then; all but $20 on puerh, including about $350 this weekend. The good news is that I have enough tea to last through all of next year. (Yeah, right). The bad news is that there are still two pu-erh websites I’d really like to buy from, and half of my purchases were samples!

Around $140 and it is only for this month. I only drink oolong tea, with occasionally white tea. Average used 10 grams of tea a day.

Alright – I’m posting this because since I just broke the bank on Cyber Monday I officially anticipate no more spending for the rest of the year.

Budget: $500/year. Actual: $471.29

January: $22.10
February: $0.00
March: $115
April: $98
May: $47.43
June: $0.00
July: $0.00
August: $0.00
September: $0.00
October: $31.89
November: $26.80
December: $130.07

This is pretty typical of my spending habits – IE the falling completely off the map for 4 months in the middle of summer. But I’m choosing to focus on the positive: I’m under budget!!! Woo hoo!

November- uh, $25.

December Update

Budget: $600 Prediction: $1000-2000

January – 174.70 USD 20.00 CAD
February – 76.13 USD
March – None
April – 178.75 USD 106.80 CAD
May – 181.44 USD
June – 85.10 USD
July – 21.23 USD
August – 151.95 USD 50.00 CAD
September – 117.07 USD
October – 190.01 USD 23.00 CAD
November – 49.25 USD 28.00 CAD

December Purchases
Little Red Cup – 23.62 USD
Dragon tea House – 57.95 USD
Yezi Tea – 54.27 USD
Yunnan Sourcing – 11.90 USD (teaware!)
Tao Leaf Tea – 46.69 CAD
What-Cha Tea – 45.69 CAD
Verdant – 52.00 USD

Running Total 2014 – 1320.42 USD 320.18 CAD