when do I get my adult certificate?
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…
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…
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…
I know, the last few posts have only been mundane end-of-month finance reviews but there really hasn’t been a lot, it’s covid season 🤷🏻 But! Watch out for this month’s posts! There’s a family trip, my birthday, another finance review (lol), and some resources based on feedback from all one (1) of my regular readers.…
Being back in quarantine is great for the wallet, less great for the mental health. My net worth is officially in the 6 digits now, but at what cost…😭 Unfortunately, another side-effect of being locked on campus is that my life is incredibly routin/mundane/boring so I’m hard pressed to come up with interesting things to…
Is it too late to refund 2020. I’m quite worn out so this will probably be the shortest one yet. Spendings Report: $824 Almost half of this month’s spendings was a session with a financial planner. It was very worthwhile and I will write a more thorough post about it when the world isn’t quite…