Recurring household expenses: how to find out what you really spend each month
If I asked you how much you spend each month, you’d probably give me a reasonably close figure. Rent or mortgage, groceries, utilities, maybe the car. You know those costs well because they’re visible and frequent.
But there’s another category of expenses that most people consistently underestimate: the less visible recurring ones. Home insurance that gets charged once a year. School fees that only apply in September. The car service. The antivirus subscription that renews automatically. The streaming service you no longer use but keep paying for.