Expenses First Cruising Year (Friday 01/01/10)

Our first cruising year cost the Faulkner Family $16,761.25 USD. This includes costs for everything... from having Windfall hauled out and painted to buying a 5 peso taco. This makes our average monthly expenses $1,414.18 USD.

Take a gander at our largest cost? Our largest cost was GROCERIES at 35%. Our annual grocery number ($5,924.73), however, includes household items such as cleaning supplies, personal hygiene supplies and dogfood. If we go to Walmart, it may also include things like batteries, beer, school supplies and hardwares. Frankly, breaking the receipts down to record ‘food’ and ‘household’ takes too much time and I need peace and quiet to be able to concentrate... not likely to happen on Windfall.

Our next three largest annual expenses were: BOAT EQUIPMENT ($1,793.99), DINING OUT ($1,137.25), and BOAT REPAIRS ($1,487.14). Jim’s going to help me export the Excel spreadsheet to a webpage in case anyone is interested in details.

See all the gory details by month here.