when do I get my adult certificate?
Happy Year of the Snake! January has been a much-needed month of calm 🙂 Spendings Report: $2,549 Lower than usual! The biggest one-off cost was for chronic acne I’ve been dealing with on and off (so fun!). I went to see the dermatologist and decided on a new course of treatments, so over the next…
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you’ve had a good start to the year so far 🙂 I will keep this one very short because WOW this holiday season has been filled with many exciting changes. Spendings Report: $3,051 Flew to visit my boyfriend in England so that was most of the leisure costs. I…
Duck feet pedalling under the water kind of feeling into the holiday season. Spendings Report: $2, 726 Very low-key month in terms of finances despite how busy it is at work and personally. It’s quite interesting that although my life has changed a lot in November it’s not reflected as a much higher or much…
A rollercoaster ride this month. It was a lovely slow rise of successive highs, and then a sudden drop at the end. Spendings Report: $2,918 $1,000 of this was me getting the HPV vaccine. I should be able to claim $600 of that back in six months once the three courses are done and I…
Simple and short update for a beautiful month in Beijing. Spendings Report: $4, 668 Ouch ;( For the mathematically inclined, $4668 isn’t 54% of my salary, implying I make close to $9,000/month. My flight reimbursements ($2,300) came in from work so I’ve counted that as part of my savings, yay! Most expensive purchases this month:…
Happy to be back in my element. Spendings Report: $3, 964 It’s been a month of high spending, some of the top contenders: I’m happy that school has started again, it feels incredibly good to be back in a routine. The holidays are always enjoyable but it’s nice to return to a place where I…
Oops, a little late, I was in 4 time zones over the last two weeks so I’m a little out of it. Spendings Report: $ 6,521 See that -3%? Yeah. I spent my entire salary this month and then some. Believe it or not, this wasn’t terrible. I bought a new laptop worth about $3000,…
The days are long but the years are short. Can you believe it’s been 5 years since I started tracking my spending? That’s 60 months of records! I compiled a series of graphs along with notes about events in my life during those 5 years to put the Personal into Personal Finance. It’s a fascinating…