Total Income for the Year 1851 £86/17/6 1/2
Expenditure as Percent of his Income
Room and Board including Coal and extra items of food 37%
Travel, including fares, board and lodging, outings 22%
Clothes, including shoes, repairs to clothes 18%
Garden, including rent of land, paying helpers 07%
Books, newspapers, magazines, stationary, stamps 06%
Drink, mostly Ale, some Wine 03%
Laundry, done by his Aunt Wilson 02.5%
Presents, for family members mainly, and girlfriends 02.5%
Miscellaneous, including memberships, social life 16%
Some individual items of interest:
Bath, presumably at a Public Bath (warm) cost 6d (old pence) although he sometimes paid a shilling, (12d- equivalent of 5 new pence) but he didn't seem to bathe very often.
Haircuts cost 3d and he sometimes had a shave, but usually paid to have his razors sharpened at the same time.
A toothbrush and a jar of marmalade cost the same (1 shilling) but for 2 shillings (10 new pence) he could have a shirt made.
He paid his co-workers who helped him in his garden between 4-6d a time for several hours work, and usually tipped a servant or gave beggars about that same amount.
His most expensive item for the whole year was taking Miss Miles to see the Opera in London, where they had a box, and he took cabs to and from her house twice, and then to the theatre, had sherry, got a programme and had a cab back and then back to his lodgings. It all totalled £ 2/14/6, which was nearly half a month's wages, and then the girl decided she didn't want to know him.
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