<prompt> Human: Hey all,Im trying to budget properly so I set a daily budget target to live on while my wife and I are in the states for the next couple of months.Basically I have a total spend goal for the time Im here and simply divided that by the number of days well be here.We set 30day for me, my wife, and my infant. This figure represents day-to-day spend, not larger expenses like airfare and car rental. If we dont meet the budget then that remainder rolls over to the next day.But Im wondering how realistic that goal actually is when you calculate in groceries every day and gasoline for the car, and treats a couple times a week like fast food, a donut, or some sight seeing. So Im curious, has anyone here calculated their average daily spend for day to day living? Or their average daily spend including larger items like rent, insurance, utilities, etc.?  <response>: Pretty simple to calculate - create a budget. Compile all the expense you encounter a year into Google Sheets. Add them up into monthly averages 30. I use rynab including housing, utilities, income earning expenses, fun money, food, car insurances, gifts, etc. We have averaged to spend 4,141.65 a month over the past year - which comes down to an astonishing 138day. This average will lower greatly as we dont really have anymore income earning expenses which was about 6k this past year. Without those income earning expenses our average comes down to 118day. We have become more and more aware of our over spending and doing things in our power to lower this. edit: Just SO I in our household. 