Spending Report: 590.83 The single most costly thing this month was renewing my VPN subscription for roughly $120CAD. I briefly debated not having it as the school wifi came with VPN, but it has come in handy to have two before. I bought more clothes these 4 months than all of last year combined. That…
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The month in review: October 2019
Spending Report: 674.79 Here’s what it looks like without the savings rate. There’s an increase of roughly $30 from August which seems inconsequential, but I fear a slippery slope situation where I keep on letting things slide and then suddenly I’m only saving $1000 every month (!!!). Yes, yes, boohoo, worried about saving only 85%…
The month in review: August 2019
Forgive the late-ness of this post, it’s taking me a while longer than expected to settle into a new routine. I’ve been occupied for much of September so a warning that there will be no spending report for September because life happens the way life wants it to. Spending Report: 1793.32 (634.02) Here’s what it…
The month in review: July 2019
Spendings report: $1, 033 July is my vacation month, I didn’t work and had a month to cram in as much socialising as I can before heading back to China August 1st. I’m quite impressed that I didn’t go overboard and blow like $2,000 in one go. About $200 worth of purchases were made with…
The month in review: June 2019
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…
The month in review: May 2019
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…
The month in review: April 2019
April has been a heck of a month filled with activity after activity. It brought with it a lot of change and challenges. It was as if life took the saying of “April Showers” a little too seriously and decided to squeeze in a year’s worth of waterworks into 2 weeks. BUT! I persevered and…
The month in review: March 2019
I used to do weekly wrapup posts but decided to keep the log for longer as the blog page was getting crowded. I’m also getting rid of Low Lights as part of my goal to reinforce positive thinking. When negative things pop up, I address them in the moment and move on. In the spirit…