Watch me fling myself off a wall then not fling myself off a wall. Spendings Report: $2,214 Pretty good month! If we ignore the tuition cost my spendings are a touch over $1k and I’m quite pleased about it. Bought a lot of clothes and clothing-related items this month. Item-wise, it was an even split…
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Finance Review: February 2021
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…
Lessons From 2 Years of Tracking My Net Worth (Finance Review January 2021)
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…
Finance Review: December 2020
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…
Finance Review: November 2020
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…
Finance Review: October 2020
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…
The boring facts behind saving $100k in 2 years
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…
Finance Review: August 2020
I’m solidly in the middle of the Boring Middle. Just trucking on and doing the same as usual 🙂 Spendings Report: $1016.77 Yup, a full 63% of my spendings this month was for Mandarin lessons. I’m on HSK4 and I’d like to pass HSK5 within a couple of years. Basically the level of Chinese a…