Analysis Freak Strikes Again

I've been very self-conscious about my spending lately, feeling like a big shopaholic. A lot of it is due to settling into my new condo, and though it's painful to see the outflow of money, it's not unexpected. But sometimes I feel like it's kind of set loose my inner wild spending beast, who just wants to buy buy buy all kinds of things that have nothing to do with a new home, exactly when I can least afford to do so! But is it really that bad? I decided to do a little comparative analysis on my credit card records to find out.

	2005	2006	YTD 2007	07 var 05	07 var 06
total cc	$21,240	$24,496	$4,347
total items	435	449	64
items over $100	47	43	7
avg $ per month	$1,770	$2,041	$2,717	53%	33%
avg items per month	36.3	37.4	40.0	10%	7%
avg over $100 per month	3.9	3.6	4.4	12%	22%

This shows my total credit card charges for 2005, 2006 and so far in 2007, as well as a count of total charge items, items over $100 and averages for all these. As you can see, my spending is up quite a bit by all measures!
I also like to look at data in charts sometimes, as they sometimes clarify things in ways that pure numbers can't:

Of course it's early in the year still, so it all may wash out after a while. We'll see!