Household Finances

Combined view: 12 months of Woolworths online orders (full itemised invoices), 12 Qantas credit card statements, and in-store Coles / Woolworths spend pulled off the card. Built for Shane & Hannah.

Last built 12 Jul 2026

Overview

The Qantas card is the household's main spending account — groceries, subscriptions, insurance, dining, travel all run through it. Every one of the 2,127 transactions across all 12 statements has been parsed and categorised programmatically (not eyeballed) — 95.6% landed in a confident category; the remaining 4.4% is a genuine long tail of small one-off merchants.

Total card spend
$126,160
2,127 transactions, 12 statement cycles
Groceries (all channels)
$14,979
~$1,248/mo — Woolworths + Coles + health food/butcher/wine
Dining out
$26,610
Cafes + pubs/restaurants — the single biggest category
Avg card cycle
~$10,500
$6,550 – $18,180 range
The "groceries" number just changed materially. Earlier estimates put groceries at ~$700/month, based only on supermarkets. Once the health-food store (Wild Things Food), the butcher, Queen Victoria Market stalls, and wine/liquor are counted in — all genuine food-shopping, just not supermarket-branded — the real figure is ~$1,248/month, about 78% higher.

Where the card's $126,160 actually goes

Computed by parsing every transaction line from all 12 PDFs and matching merchant names against ~200 keyword rules — not a manual estimate. "Other" is 7 small categories folded together (home & household, donations, personal care, a Ballarat-region property charge, historical business ad-spend, card fees, and the unmatched long tail) so the chart stays readable — see the full table below for every category split out.

Dining out (cafes, pubs & restaurants)$26,610 · 21.1%
Travel & accommodation$15,852 · 12.6%
Groceries (all channels)$14,979 · 11.9%
Fixed bills — insurance, utilities, streaming, gov/tax$13,367 · 10.6%
Health, medical & wellness$12,865 · 10.2%
Kids & family activities$10,246 · 8.1%
Shopping & retail$7,532 · 6.0%
Transport & auto$5,525 · 4.4%
Other (7 smaller categories + long tail)$19,184 · 15.2%

Full category breakdown — every category, not just the top 8

CategoryTotalTransactions% of spend
Cafes & bakeries$18,213.4490614.4%
Travel & accommodation$15,852.362612.6%
Health, medical & wellness$12,865.3512010.2%
Kids & family activities$10,246.421458.1%
Pubs, bars & restaurants$8,396.121286.7%
Shopping & retail$7,531.84956.0%
Groceries — health food / butcher / wine / market stalls$7,076.711755.6%
Business / Meta ad spend (historical — already removed)$6,308.54145.0%
Transport & auto$5,525.29474.4%
Unmatched long tail (small, mostly holiday-town merchants)$5,514.961524.4%
Groceries — Woolworths online$5,266.06304.2%
Insurance (Allianz, RACV, Budget Direct)$3,975.68173.2%
Utilities & telco$3,944.97353.1%
Council, government & tax$3,242.42112.6%
Home & household$2,808.45202.2%
Streaming & subscriptions$2,203.59681.7%
Groceries — Coles$2,031.08411.6%
Donations$1,575.15181.2%
Personal care & grooming$1,423.61131.1%
Property (Ballarat/regional — recurring "Central Highlands Re" charges)$1,023.7540.8%
Groceries — Woolworths in-store$604.96170.5%
Card fees & interest$529.72180.4%

"Property (Ballarat/regional)" is 4 charges of ~$243–272 from "Central Highlands Re" (Wendouree) — worth a quick check on what this actually is if it's not already accounted for. The unmatched long tail is mostly small holiday-town merchants (Ocean Grove, Barwon Heads, Torquay, Point Lonsdale, Heathcote) — food and incidentals while travelling that didn't cleanly match a keyword rule.

Groceries

Full itemised detail from Woolworths' own invoices, plus what the card shows for the channels Woolworths' order-history page doesn't cover.

Woolworths online — confirmed
$2,592.65
12 orders, Jan–Jun 2026, full invoices
Woolworths online — found on card only
~$2,935
17 orders, Jul 2025–Jan 2026, missing from the website
Coles
$2,031.08
41 transactions, 12 months, ~$169/mo
In-store Woolworths
$604.96
mostly "Ww Metro" convenience runs + travel
The Woolworths website undercounts its own order history. Its "My Orders" page — even with the date filter widened to a full year back — shows only 12 orders starting 21 Jan 2026. Cross-checking the Qantas card found 17 more "Woolworths Online" charges from 12 Jul 2025 through 12 Jan 2026 that never appear on the site. Real online grocery spend over the last 11 months is closer to $5,528 across 29 orders, not $2,593 across 12.
Once the health-food store, butcher, and market stalls are counted, the real grocery bill is ~$1,248/month, not ~$700. That extra ~$7,077 (categorised as "health food / butcher / wine / market stalls" — Wild Things Food, The Butchers Block, Queen Victoria Market stalls, Dan Murphy's/BWS) is genuine food shopping that just doesn't show up under a supermarket name. See the Overview tab for the full category breakdown.

What's actually on repeat (from the 12 fully-itemised orders)

Exact frequency counts across all 12 invoiced orders — how many of the 12 each item appears in.

ItemOrdersCategory
Dairyworks cheese (block / grated / mozzarella)10 / 12Dairy
Macro Free Range Chicken Thigh Fillet9 / 12Protein — default stir fry meat
Lurpak Butter Spreadable8 / 12Dairy
Woolworths Wholemeal Loaf7 / 12Bakery
Mr Chen's Pork & Chive Dumplings7 / 12Frozen / protein
Oat milk (Pureharvest / Macro / Vitasoy — brand varies)7 / 12Drinks
Maggie Beer stock (beef or chicken)6 / 12Pantry
Macro Classic Tofu6 / 12Protein — direct stir fry match
Nappies (Huggies / BabyLove, sizes vary)6 / 12Baby
Lotus Biscoff Biscuits5 / 12Snacks
Macro Organic Quick Oats5 / 12Breakfast
Macro Passata / Chunky Bolognese sauce5 / 12Pantry — pasta-night base
Avocado (5 pack)5 / 12Produce
Koja oat bars (any variety)5 / 12Kids' lunchbox snacks
Meal plan check: the plan from the agenda (cook every 2nd day, stir fry weekly, pizza Sundays) already lines up with what's in the trolley — tofu, chicken thigh, dumplings and pasta sauce are already regulars.

Nappies, corrected

Show up in exactly 6 of 12 orders, not every one. Sizing isn't a clean progression either — Size 3 (21 Jan) → Size 4 (Feb–Apr), then Sizes 4, 5 and 6 all get ordered within the same six-week window (13 Apr–7 Jun), which reads as buying ahead / working through mixed stock rather than a tidy size-up. Current size as of late June: Size 5.

Woolworths order-by-order (12 fully itemised)

DateTotalItems
21 Jan 2026$218.7232
3 Feb 2026$196.6937
12 Feb 2026$108.7512
24 Feb 2026$211.9530
12 Mar 2026$181.9429
23 Mar 2026$230.4542
12 Apr 2026$213.4838
28 Apr 2026$232.6332
11 May 2026$224.0534
22 May 2026$195.0029
7 Jun 2026$190.1222
24 Jun 2026$388.8748 — includes a $45 4L bulk olive oil buy

Plus 17 more orders (~$2,935 total) between 12 Jul 2025 and 12 Jan 2026 found on the card but not itemisable — the website won't surface them and no invoice PDFs exist for them yet.

Qantas Card — 12-month spend

Jun 2025 – Jun 2026. Card was reissued mid-year (Qantas Premier Platinum → Qantas Money Platinum, same account) — no gap in coverage.

Spend per statement cycle

Oct 2025 is the outlier — a Bali trip (Komune Hotel, flights, Airbnb) pushed that cycle to ~$18k. First three bars are estimated from opening/closing balance movement — the old statement format didn't itemise a monthly purchases total the way the new one does.

$14.9k
Jun 25
$12.9k
Jul 25
$11.9k
Aug 25
$7.8k
Sep 25
$18.2k
Oct 25
$12.5k
Nov 25
$9.2k
Dec 25
$8.7k
Jan 26
$6.6k
Feb 26
$8.1k
Mar 26
$6.9k
Apr 26
$8.4k
May 26
Regular cycle   Outlier (Bali trip)
This card is used as an everyday transaction account, not just for purchases. Most cycles the balance gets paid off before real interest accrues — but purchases regularly run $9k–13k against a $15k limit; Available Credit dropped to $1,716 in the Oct 2025 statement. Worth knowing if a large purchase is coming up.

Notable one-off purchases

DateWhatAmount
27 Jun 2025RACV Club Melbourne — family holiday booking (membership unlocked a large discount on this)$3,407.37
27 Jun 2025Melbourne City Toyota$1,522.49
19–20 Oct 2025Bali trip — Komune Hotel + flights + Airbnb~$4,800 total
26 Oct 2025Airbnb (Surry Hills)$2,037.80
29 Nov – 1 Dec 2025Baby Bunting (×2)$898.00 + $359.10
1 Dec 2025Budget Direct$1,111.28
24 Dec 2025The Good Guys (Ballarat)$589.00
31 Oct 2025Bradley Miranda Susa(n) — Richmond, charged twice same day$833.42 × 2
9 May 2026Goodvibesyoga.com.au$515.00
24 May 2026Crittenden Lakeside — Dromana$1,082.84

The Bradley Miranda Susan double-charge (identical amount, same merchant, same day) is worth a second look — could be legitimate (two sessions) or a duplicate.

Resolved — "Facebk *" charges were business Meta/FB ad spend. Confirmed: Shane's business ran ads through this card for a period in 2025 (~$5,000 across the year, climbing from ~$368 to ~$703 per charge). Already moved off this card — historical, not a live cost.
Adobe refund event, 9 Dec 2025: six separate $39.59 credits landed the same day — about $237.54 refunded. A billing duplication that got caught and fixed. No action needed.
Daily habit spend: "Sq *Amann Patisserie", "Sq *Florian", and "Clay Health And Organics" (all Carlton North) appear almost every single day across all 12 statements, usually 2–4 times a day between them, $5–50 a pop. Individually small, but it's the single largest cumulative discretionary category on the card.

Recurring subscriptions & memberships

Charges that repeat like clockwork across nearly every statement — the "set and forget" costs.

WhatCadenceAmountEst. annual
L9 Unlimited (Nunawading)Weekly, every single week$36.00~$1,872
HBF Health (private health insurance)~3×/month$68–91~$3,240
Allianz InsuranceMonthly$183.50~$2,202
TelstraMonthly$137–145~$1,650
RACV Club membershipRoughly monthly (irregular)~$202~$2,000
Aussie BroadbandMonthly (seen Jun–Aug 2025 only — check still active)$95.00~$1,140 if ongoing
NetflixMonthly$28.99~$348
Hubbl / Kayo SportsMonthly$40–46~$516
"Pla Donation" (Melbourne)Roughly monthly$78.00~$936
AudibleMonthly$16.45~$197
Prime VideoMonthly$11–13~$144
AdobeMonthly (see refund note above)$40–58~$540
Google OneIrregular, small$1–4.50~$36

HBF and RACV Club cadence looked irregular enough that annual figures are estimates — worth a 2-minute check against the actual policy documents if you want this to the dollar.

Budget read

Run rate~$10,500/month average, but lumpy — $6,550 to $18,180 depending on whether there's a trip or big purchase that cycle
Fixed/recurring floor~$15,300/year before any groceries, cafes, kids' activities, or one-off spend
Biggest lever if reviewing costsWith Meta ad spend already off the card and RACV Club explained (holiday discount, not standalone), there isn't an obvious "soft" cost left — the floor is mostly small streaming subs and genuine necessities

This is one card only — it doesn't capture other accounts or cash spend.