August 07 – changes from 6 months ago
- Litre of fuel Kshs. 80.79 ~ $1.21 (up 8.75%)
- Maize meal (2 kg. Unga) 50 shillings (no change)
- Sugar (2 kg. Mumias pack) 150 shillings (no change)
- Tusker beer: 100 shillings at local (no change)
- Safaricom promotion: Then: was Saasa - with 8 shillings per minute calls during off peak hour. Now is new shape of Safaricom including a new Super Tariffic tariff which has calls 38% cheaper and SMS 30% cheaper than the previous Tariffic tariff
- US Dollar exchange rate: Kshs. 66.50 (5% weaker against the shilling)
- Plastics items are not being tracked, but milk and bread have gone up since the budget speech read in June.
Personal expenses
I tried using various online services to track expenses, but eventually fell back to Microsoft Excel and built a tracker that fit my needs. For July 2007;
- Rent 30% (high, but it’s safe and close to town)
- Charity 14% (one time event)
- Electronics 11% (new phone, but do I say)
- Fuel 8% (lower than expected, but my daily commute is short)
- Drinks 6% (Rather low, so should not feel guilty)
- Relatives 6% (unavoidable, non recurring expense)
- Investments 5% (should be higher, but there’s nothing promising till end of August)
- Dining 5%
- Parking 4% (take that Mr. Mayor)
- Newspaper 2% (rather high)
- Gift 2% (for every time I visit someone’s’ house)
- Utilities 2% (electricity & water)
- Communications 2% (mostly Safaricom)
- Groceries 2%
- Personal 1%
sports
- I love the new G TV advertisement which compares the three English premiership soccer packages
Get 3 games a month for 0 shillings i.e. Nation TV (NTV)
Get 6 games a month for $70 ~ i.e. DSTV
Or 32 games a month for Kshs 2,750 (i.e. GTV)
but this weekend, Supersport will show opening matches of the big four teams Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, and Manchester Utd
-With all the fallout from the Hungarian Grand Prix, it should be pointed out (to non-F1 fans) that Hamilton started the fracas on Saturday when he deliberately ignored a direct order from Ron Dennis (team Boss) to let Alonso past on the track during the early stages of qualifying three.
