Summary This was a strange month for spending because we were in Africa for almost the whole month! We had already paid for the vast majority of the trip in advance. You can see the damage in previous spending posts! We break our main expenses down into broad categories starting with the big 3; housing, food …
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Inheritance
A Divisive Subject Do you plan to leave an inheritance? What about receiving one – do you factor this in to your financial plans? Inheritance is a divisive subject and people have very strong opinions on what ‘should’ be done. In this post we will explore what inheritance means to us and how we plan …
Monthly Spending – July 2019
Summary There was a lot going on this month – we even got engaged!!! Excluding the engagement ring and the £500 spend on US dollars for our Africa trip this month’s underlying spending was very much in line with our monthly averages. An annual insurance premium increased our usual housing spend slightly but we were broadly in line with our expected totals. We …
All Change!
A Life Update and some BIG NEWS! Soo...we have exciting news! We got engaged!!!! After just less than 6 years of being together, Mr Way asked me to marry him and I said yes! So I’ll be asking for lots of frugal wedding advice from like minded FI enthusiasts!! Like everything else in our lives we will be looking at our wedding …
Monthly Spending – June 2019
Summary This month was slightly over our ‘normal’ spending of ~£2,000. We had an annual membership fee to pay, as well as a couple of big outlays for our Africa trip added to the total. See below for more detail! We break our main expenses down into broad categories starting with the big 3; housing, food …
A Way to Less……. What?
Our name means a lot of different things to us. In our quest for a simpler way of living we’re reducing lots of aspects of our lives. We wanted to create this post to give you an idea of what ‘A Way to Less’ means to us and how we are striving to improve our …
Monthly Spending – May 2019
Summary This month’s spending is a little different because the balance for our Africa trip was due. As you can see, this meant we shelled out over £6,000 on this alone! We’ll go into more detail on this below. Ignoring these payments for a moment we actually had a fairly normal month, spending £1,942. We …
Why We Keep Our Finances Separate
Society Expects This is another one of those aspects of life where we have challenged the ‘norms’ of society. We decided to forge our own way of doing things by keeping our finances separate. The accepted norm for couples is to merge finances, particularly when you own a house together as we do. In our …
Monthly Spending – April 2019
In March we produced our first ever monthly spending report. Here is our second! Despite going away this month we have managed to stay very close to our March spending amount. We’re really happy with this and hope we can keep up the £2000 per month average! We break our main expenses down into broad …
What a Difference the Sun Makes
Ode to Sunshine S.A.D vanisher Negativity banisher Energy creator and motivation shaker Reinvigorates smiles and unused miles Of muscles that wake as you shine The slate is wiped clean As faces beam at rays that rain down from the Blue, cloudless sky, bringing twinkles to eyes As collectively spirits are raised! Miss Way A Way to Southern Portugal! We are writing this article while in Southern Portugal with family. …