when do I get my adult certificate?
New hobby and new phone means new levels of emotional damage on my wallet. I continue this worrying trend of lifestyle inflation but I’m learning to let it go, or get better at repressing the guilt. Generally, still meeting my savings goals and finding a better work-life balance. The numbers say I’m fine but my…
It’s the 2 year anniversary of when I first opened my TFSA and RRSP 🎉🎉 I planned to do a more comprehensive review and look at some interesting trends but life got busy. I’m now running math club this semester, lots of fun, lots of time needed. It’ll eventually come, just not for a while…
Happy birthday to my TFSA and RRSP! It’s been 2 years since I’ve opened them and a couple of months shy of this blog’s birthday as well. Let’s combine both and talk about lessons I learned after 2 years of tracking and blogging about my net worth. First, the usual monthly review for January condensed…
Happy new year everyone! May 2021 be the best year for all of us yet! In one month, it’ll be the 2-year anniversary of when I first opened a TFSA and RRSP, how nostalgic *sheds tear*. I’ll do a more comprehensive review of my finances for the past 2 years and see if there are…
This August, for the first time in 16 years, I went to visit my ancestral lands in southern China. The previous time I went back it was to say my last goodbyes to my grandfather. I was 11 then, I’m 27 now. You’d think I would have learned about the importance of time and family…
It’s been an exciting month, the American election, Covid19 vaccine news, I found a place to buy salted butter–you know, stuff that really impacts my day-to-day life as a Canadian in China. Spendings Report: $650.61 The biggest one-time purchase this month was $50 for a Secret Santa followed in a close second by last week’s…
Friendship is priceless, and also $160 a month. Between last month when none of my friends were back/out of quarantine and this month when most of them are out, my leisure/eating out spending more than doubled. That only sounds impressive until you realize eating out in China is cheap and my ideal weekend involves me…
Special edition of my monthly finance review as it has been 2 years since I started keeping records of my net worth 😎 I thought about going with a more click-baity title like “You’d be amazed at how I saved $100k in 2 years!”, but I do believe honesty is the best policy in this…