when do I get my adult certificate?
Spendings Report Spendings are through the roof from a combination of 3 things End of year trips and farewell parties Moving costs and renewing all my various government IDs/visas I’m on vacation mode, bless summers It’s a little too soon to say for sure what my monthly budget would be going forward but it looks…
Slowly but surely working towards my goal of $50k by the end of this year 🙂 I’m going to bundle these updates together with the Month in Review posts since I’m already putting my spending report there. It’s not terribly exciting to see a dry summary of my net worth every month (sorry if you’re…
These posts should just be called Aggressive Positivity Reviews because that’s what I’m using them for. It’s easy to get lost in the days and miss all the joys and privileges that our first-world lives afford us. You’ll see that a lot of the good things are not ‘big’ events. But that’s the secret! If…
I’m a big fan of two things: celebrating financial milestones and stickers. It is a fact that everyone loves stickers. The 19-year-olds I used to teach react the same way as the 10-year-olds. So today, I’m combining both together to bring you a sticker set that celebrates the various financial milestones you may or may…
It’s final, I’ve signed the contract with the new school and I’m moving on! I alluded to my job change when I talked about how I only spend $350 a month living in China. I didn’t mention the financial cost of that decision so let’s take a look at what made taking a pay cut…
You’ll notice it’s clearly not April, but hey, #lifehappens. Tax returns came and went, I had some surprise costs, and still managed to increase my net worth, woohoo! Given that I have about 5 months worth of pay still coming in I’m right on track to break over $50,000 net worth by the end of…
April was a heck of a month! I tracked every penny I spent this month to see the cost of living in China – and wow was it surprisingly low, even with some unplanned events. Life decided to really live up to the April Showers theme by a) dumping a Master’s degree application in it,…
Stop me if you’ve heard this piece of financial advice before: “You should save 10% of your income.” It’s one of those general financial guidelines floating around out there most people (i.e. me) have heard of. I wouldn’t call it the worst piece of financial advice but it’s certainly not a good one. Spending 90%…