Oldbag of Cairo Amalgamated Megacorp PLC

NOW UPDATED FOR THE WHOLE YEAR OF 2008

For those of you interested in how much it costs to live here in Cairo, I have now done my FULL YEAR REVIEW for 2008. I hope you find it useful!

This is for me and my two cats. No rent or housing costs (other than utilities, maintenance etc are included).

HEADLINE RESULTS

TOP LEVEL SUMMARY:

TOTAL ANNUAL BUDGET: 36000.00 LE
TOTAL SPEND: 37995.95 LE
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TOTAL OVERSPEND: 1995.95LE

Whole Year to date (1st Jan to 31st Dec 2008)

CAPITAL(everything with a potential life span of 2 years or more)

budget (@1500LE pm) = 18000.00 LE
expends = 17207.60 LE
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792.4 Underspend hurrah

This includes a heavy spending on a club membership - one more payment due next year. It also includes 2 short breaks - to the desert and to Luxor and 1200LE for spending money on trip to the UK.


OPERATING COSTS (utilities, food, cleaning materials, transport, etc etc - general day to day stuff)

budget (@1500LE pm) = 18000.00 LE
expends = 20788.35 LE
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2788.35 Overspend

Taking out costs of broadband, phones, electricity, visas, medical checks, transport and annual club subs - the net spends on day to day stuff:

First quarter (Jan - Mar): daily spend: 37.893LE
Second quarter (Apr - Jun):daily spend: 39.329LE
Third quarter (Jul - Sept): daily spend: 41.94LE
Fourth quarter (Oct - Dec): daily spend: 52.68LE (SEE NOTES)

OVERALL DAILY SPEND ON FOOD, CATS, TRANSPORT, PHONE TOP UPS ETC: 42.98LE

NOTES - increase in spending during the fourth quarter I restocked up on a year's worth of printer inks (which added 3.93LE per day to the daily spend) and took on a gardener in December which adds 130LE per month). I also started buying proper cat food for my cats as I was concerned for their health. I am therefore spending approx 300LE per month on meat now including their food.


FURTHER ANALYSIS OF OPERATING COSTS (utilities, food, cleaning materials, transport, etc etc - general day to day stuff)

DSL - full year 2507LE (this will reduce as I have dropped TEData and just use Etisalat)
Landline - 240LE
Electricity - 700LE
Visas (including reentry visas, photocopies etc) - 221LE
Medical checks including vet - 264LE
General travel (bus/microbus/taxi-rare) - 794LE
Meat stuff (for me + for cats) - 3600LE
Mobile phone top ups - 615LE
Entrances to concerts, museums etc plus a few 'big days out' - 700LE
Everything else - 11147.35LE
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