Big purchases this year though: Apple Watch, treadmill, and 2 AC units (not shown here because it was in July).

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    I track mine via a google sheet. Leaving off the amounts, here is everything that is >= 1% of my income

    Category | Pct of Spending | Pct of Income | Memo  
    Government - Japan | 33.64% | 28.83% | Various taxes, health insurance, and pension  
    Entertainment | 16.53% | 14.17% | Anything related to eating out, vacation, and non-required stuff.  
    Bills - Mortgage | 11.72% | 10.04% | House payment  
    Grocery | 8.98% | 7.69% | Groceries with the occasional home good or take-out sushi from the grocery store I can't be bothered to separate  
    Wife allowance | 6.65% | 5.70% | wife (dependent)'s phone and life insurance payments + spending money  
    Bills - Electricity | 4.83% | 4.14% | this will be a higher percentage by the end of the year  
    Home Goods | 2.45% | 2.10% | caulk, paint, tools, furniture, or whatever.  
    Auto - insurance | 2.37% | 2.03% | car + motorbike  
    Insurance - Life | 2.12% | 1.81% | nothing interesting here  
    Auto - Other | 2.03% | 1.74% | not insurance, fuel, nor tolls so anything else.  
    

    The other categories are as follows

    Work (will be reimb) | things I pay then expense and get back from work  
    Auto - ETC | tolls  
    Bills - Septic Service | yearly  
    Bills - Internet | what I'm typing this from  
    Medical | including dental and vision  
    Gifts | gifts  
    Auto - fuel | for both bike and car  
    Clothing/Hair | this poor category sees little  
    Farm | when I pay cash for stuff for my farm business  
    Bills - Water | no sewer  
    Transportation | generally just topping up my transit card for trains/busses; I might do something different next year  
    Bills - JP Visa Fee | yearly CC fee  
    Bills - Phone | phone  
    Bills - Google Services | pay for extra storage, but migrating away from google slowly  
    Bills - Youtube Premium | yt  
    Education | gotta keep learning  
    Other | anything not obviously something else  
    Government - US | tax-related (I never have to pay since I don't make that much) and overseas voter stuff