Someone called the financial TV programs "financial porn". If that's true, then this thread is "financial voyeurism" (you show me yours and I'll show you mine, heh, heh.) Unfortunately, I'm shy. Actually I just don't keep the records which would tease out the way we spend our money. Having said that, I see that we spend much less than most on "groceries" but that's because we eat at least one meal "out" everyday. That could be anything from semi-fine dining (rare) to what we did today - ate a chunk of cooked ahi ($4.71) and washed it down with a shared fountain Diet Coke @ $1.09- both from Sam's. Oh, and, uh, that's after we "grazed" the aisles for freebies.
Not sure why this stuff is so interesting. Apparently it's just fun to see how we differ on various priorities. One of the expenses we could easily cut in half (or with difficulty cut to perhaps 15% of current) is our transportation budget. We keep 2 cars with the requisite insurance, depreciation, gas, maintenance, etc. Just selling one car would make a big difference. Selling both and riding The Bus would make a huge difference.
Our tax bill is ridiculous compared to most I've seen here 'cause we're converting IRA's to Roths.
Our "bill" for the kids' Roths are near $6K. IMO that's better even than paying their student loans - which we'll eventually help them with, anyway. Just don't tell THEM that, heh, heh.
Our heat bill is "0.00" but that's because I can't find a single electric heater on the island. Dang it's been cold lately. Neighbor read 57 F a couple of mornings ago. Brrrrr.
So I didn't take it all off as some of you have, but I hear it's "better" if you just show a little. Leave something to the imagination. YMMV