This.  This is why I never have any money and can never meet my spending goals.  Because I do stupid things like signing up for multiple food magazine subscriptions (there's a third on the way!), and feeling compelled to give money to my alma maters or matii, or however you would say it.  Even when I am being pretty good and not boozing and dining my $ away, I still find a way to dispose of it far faster than should be possible.  I need to come up with a plan.

$1.35 - bus fare to work (cold and raining and awful outside)

$15 - Food Network magazine subscription

$12 - Everyday Food magazine subscription

$20 - donation to Chewonki, the organization that runs the Maine Coast Semester

$15 - donation to Oberlin scholarship fund

$20 - BoltBus ticket from NYC-DC for Sunday (on my way back from seeing the Professional Bull Rider's rodeo in Madison Square Garden!!)

$35.51 - two calendars (one for home, one for the office), a New Yorker (I should just suck it up and get a subscription even if I don't read it most of the time), and Team of Rivals (book about Lincoln and his cabinet that I have been wanting to read ever since I heard the author speak and ended in tears - she is amazing!)