how much goes on the booze and cigarettes over a year. Mind you, they are hardly trivial expenses.

... I spend about €528 a year on newspapers.

You're right The WORD is good value!

is taken for granted in my household

But put £500 in my palm on January the 1st and make me hand it over for the following 12 months, in one go, and I'm not sure if I could

... I find myself, when spontaneously peckish, milling round the sandwich counters of various newsagents and branches of M&S, pretending to not be milling around the sandwich counter. I then go on to convince myself that I'm not buying one of those filthy, disgusting, SOWRONGITSGORGEOUS deep-filled cheese'n'stodge breaded harbingers of guilt and suffering.

I then discreetly part with my money and walk briskly to the nearest side street, where I proceed to devour my forbidden love behind a pile of boxes.

I can get through two or three a day. This, in itself, hurts... God knows how much I spend. If my mother ever found out about this... keep it secret, won't you?

Wilkinson Razor Blades, a real expense over time,may have to go back to stubble look next year.

moved my section to some shoddy rented officers that had minimal kitchen facilities (unlike the rest of the firm in our old office). We asked for microwave to be installed so people could have hot food for lunch rather than endless sandwiches. Our cheery employers baulked at the £50 quid cost even when I pointed out that a modest lunch bought take away would cost our 27 staff a £38,880.00 a year. I I even suggested we hired a chef and get them to knock us something!

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29395

My recollection is the line "you'll very soon go broka", which as a coffee drinker of (semi) Voltaire-ian proportions has a resonance for me

six days a week, all year = £358.80

I'll buy maybe 50+ CDs, 100 individual songs, maybe another 50 album downloads. That lot adds up to well over £1,000.

I've just spent the whole year on tour and don't want to even think how much money I've spent on coffee. More than £363, I'd imagine. I found one of these in Dublin last month, and can seriously recommend to Mark Ellen that he gets himself one:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Smartcafe-Hot-Cafetiere-Mug-Platinum/dp/B0007MTN...

It's a mug. It's a cafetiere. It is, as they say, a no-brainer.

Razor blades is an excellent example. Haircuts is another one!

Coffee and a bun will set you back a bit each time you indulge. Going to the cinema used to be more affordable. And have you seen the price of Fray Bentos pies?

Even going for the cheap option of a soup and a filled roll, £3.50 a day is easily mopped up : when I add in a bag of crisps here and a Kitkat there, that would easily reach £1,000 in a year.

If I look at it weekly, I can get a lot of bread and fillings for £20, and generally have something more appealing. It just takes a little time.

Of course, any money saved can then be invested in CDs, records, books, etc.

I'd hate to see my Green and Blacks (and similar) bill for the year.

I get 2 for £1 pastries in the morning from the Supermarket far too often.

I buy 2 liters of OJ for about £2.50 every 5 days or so. My Orange juice bill for the year must be over £200 when you take into account individual bottles and the odd over-priced freshly-squeezed one in a gastro pub.

But then I don't smoke or drink coffee, so a man must have some vices.

Around £1000 a year. Still, nowhere near Elton John's flower budget of £460 a day a few years ago.

Mrs. F signed a mobile contract with a greater voice than text allowance... only to become a texting addict. It's amazing how high a monthly contract can rack up until you spot the trend and change it.

I am entirely crazy for biltong and spend hundreds a year on it.

I'm not proud. But I am happy.

since i discovered their sandwiches no-one else's ever taste anything like as good and they cost a fortune. it's a new benign addiction that i'm trying to limit myself on but each time i pass i turn into a Homer Simpson inside. Mmmmm saaaandwiiich.

Twice a bloody day... why isn't it free..?

Copy of the Independent & can of Red Bull - 5 days a week (when at work)
Annual Cost = £550.00

why are they so fxxxxxxxxxxg expensive?

£324 on chiropody

I can't tell you how much I spend on double espressos (I've just worked it out)... it's obscene.

As for gaspers... I could weep at the sums.

In my job, I have many informal meetings over coffee and sometimes light, non-alcoholic lunches. I will usually pay - unless it is an external prospect or client, where I am able to claim from the business.

So far so good - yet I work for an organisation that employs 5,000 people nationwide. Most of them I do not know, yet my area needs their support, co-operation and collective loveliness. Such meetings are funded by me personally because of a strictly enforced rule that business expenses cannot levied for internal meetings between "colleagues". All up, around $1,500 a year out of my own sky rocket.

Yes, I could insist we go dutch - but that wouldn't go down well. Yes, I could insist we always use a meeting room - but that wouldn't go down well either.

You marvel at how cheap the printer is, then spend the rest of its working life marvelling at how frequently it sucks 40 friggin' quid out of your bank account. And the cheaper 'compatibles' NEVER work . . .

It's amazing how quicky maintaining an addiction to cocaine and escorts mounts up. We've had to reduce the weekly food budget just to try and cope with it. I've told the wife she'll have to cut back, but will she listen?

Every morning, a tray of it from M&S. A few years ago I somehow convinced myself it was doing me vital good, to the point that I feel a bit under the weather if I miss my tart, crunchy fix.

All in the mind, and in the wallet. If I actually worked out the annual cost there would be hot purple tears hitting the keyboard.

I'm not a self-employed businessman, so I have no true need. It all adds up: £35/mo contract, bit of roaming, lovely Apps, plus £270 for the thing itself. Try to employ some cost-saving like using Skype-to-go to call Ireland, but minus the hardware it's £500+/yr.

Actually my slavish addiction to Apple products over the years is a house deposit at this stage. Still, not as expensive as keeping up with Elvis Costello reissues.