6 Months In How much does a baby cost if you’re frugal? It’s really easy to spend a fortune, but we found it hard to find examples of those who are more careful with their money. The Big Issue Money can be up there with the biggest worries for new parents. Baby costs are often …
Life Design for 2021
We have previously written about ‘Life Design’ and our approach to creating a life we are happy to live. As with everything, our ideas have begun to evolve and develop. For me, this has been strongly influenced by personal and world events of 2020. I was originally going to write a review of 2020 from my perspective. After …
Annual Spending – 2020
Summary Welcome to our annual spending post! Our total spend for the year of 2020 was £22,858. For context, this is for 2 adults plus a baby, born in July 2020. If you’ve been following our monthly spending posts, you’ll know how this goes. Throughout 2020 we managed to keep our spending pretty low. We’re …
Monthly Spending – December 2020
Summary Welcome to our December spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,454. Finally, we made it! Sometimes it felt like 2020 would never end, but here we are. For more of a review of the year, see Mr Way’s 2020 Personal Review and our Financial Review too. We’ll also be posting a summary of …
2020 Financial Review
Here it is! Our financial review for 2020. Below, we'll detail how we each got on this year, including progress towards our FIRE goals. If you want to see a more personal review of 2020, see this post by Mr Way. Mr Way As far as my FIRE journey is concerned, it has been steady …
2020 Personal Review – Mr Way
Well, what a year! It's finally time for my 2020 Personal Review, and boy has it been a crazy one. Nobody saw the global pandemic coming, but there have been so many other things going on in my life too! It has been pretty manic at times and hard to process everything that has happened. …
Monthly Spending – November 2020
Summary Welcome to our November spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,818. There weren’t any big expenses this month, just a few Christmas presents etc. Steady away! That’s what national lockdown does for you. See below for the full details! We break our main expenses down into broad categories starting with the …
Monthly Spending – October 2020
Summary Welcome to our October spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,952. This marks another month below our target of £2,000, even considering we had to buy a new washing machine! Coronavirus restrictions have certainly seen a reduction in our spending, as there aren’t many things we’re allowed to do! With another …
Monthly Spending – September 2020
Summary Welcome to our September spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,636. We’re really happy with this as it’s significantly below our £2,000 target. Before we get into the spending, we want to apologise. We haven’t been creating any blog posts recently, other than these monthly spending breakdowns. We’re determined to get …
Monthly Spending – August 2020
Summary Welcome to our August spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,970. We’ve been eating out more than usual, as Miss Way increases her socialising and introduces Baby Way to family and friends - at a distance. We also had an MOT on the car this month, and bought a lot of …