Budget

My Rough Estimate Budget Plan:
 * 120 total hours
 * 120 hours/8 hours=15 total days
 * $3.49 per gallon
 * Total distance: my house to Madison = 19 miles, round trip = roughly 38 miles
 * About 1.5 gallons used in my car for roundtrip

Rough Total Money Spent on Gas: 1.5 gallons x 15 days x $3.49 = __**$78.53**__

I have to work 120 total hours for my internship. If I work for eight hours a day, it would only take me 15 days to complete my internship. I would need to travel approximately 38 miles per day and would use about 1.5 gallons of gas in my car. If I multiply 1.5 gallons of gas used by 15 days by $3.49, I get a total of $78.53 spent on gas throughout the summer. I probably won't work a full 8 hours a day for 15 days straight. I will want to spread my hours over a longer time span than 15 days, but this is just a rough estimate to start out with.

Actual Budget Plan:
 * 145.83 total hours
 * 32 days traveled to Madison
 * $3.49/gallon of gas
 * 1.3 gallons of gas used by my car for round trip
 * Car gets roughly 26 mpg (don't know that for sure and can't find out...my car doesn't show my mileage)

Total Money Spent on Gas: 1.3 gallons x 32 x $3.49 = **__$145.18__**

Over the duration of my internship this summer, I traveled to the Lake County Extension Office in Madison, SD 32 days. I live 19 miles away, so for a round trip there, I drove 38 miles. My car gets roughly 26mpg so in a round trip I used 1.3 gallons of gas. Throughout the summer, when I filled up my car, gas prices were $3.49. To find my total expenses, I had to multiply 1.3 gallons used on 32 days by $3.49 gas price to get my total gas expense of $145.18.

I brought a lunch every day that I was there, or ate at home before heading in, so I didn't pay anything for buying fast food. The few days I did go out to eat, Glenda treated me to lunch.

Clothing wasn't an expense for me either. I wore jeans and a 4-H t-shirt when I went to work, and I already had those so they didn't need to be bought.