Summary Welcome to our April spending post! Our total spend for the month was £10,415 or $12,811. Our first full month of living in the Caribbean! The budget was totally blown this month because of our large up-front rent payment. Luckily this is on an interest free loan, but we still wanted to include it …
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Monthly Spending – March 2022
Summary Welcome to our March spending post! Our total spend for the month was £3,231 or $3,974. This is where things start to get interesting! Half way through March we moved to the Caribbean. The majority of our spending from that point on will be in $US. Because we’re a UK blog and we still …
Monthly Spending – February 2022
Summary Welcome to our February spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,370. We want to start with an apology. While writing this it's late April and we’ve actually already been living in our new home for over a month. There has been so much to deal with in the last few weeks …
Monthly Spending – January 2022
Summary Welcome to our January spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,907. Starting 2022 in positive fashion, with a return to our sub-£2,000 months. We’re aiming to move to the Caribbean in March, so our spending will be changing dramatically soon. For our last month or so in the UK, we’re aiming …
Monthly Spending – December 2021
Summary Welcome to our December spending post! Our total spend for the month was £3,756. Ouch! This month was significantly above average, but not without good reason. First and foremost, we’ve been spending more in preparation for our big move to the Caribbean. We’ve both bought new clothes – out with the winter gear and …
Annual Spending – 2021
Summary Welcome to our annual spending post! Our total spend for the year of 2021 was £26,466. For context, this is for 2 adults plus a baby and includes our wedding! If you’ve been following our monthly spending posts, you’ll know how this goes. Throughout 2021 we managed to keep our spending pretty low considering …
Monthly Spending – November 2021
Summary Welcome to our November spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,219. Firstly, we’re sorry for how late this post is. Work permit applications for our new jobs have taken up a significant amount of time and stress recently. We’ve also been selling our house. This hasn’t left much time for much else, including …
Monthly Spending – October 2021
Summary Welcome to our October spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,312. At the start of the month we had a trip away. Several meals out and an expensive Safari Park trip soon add up. We also had an issue with our car this month. We break our main expenses down into broad categories starting with …
Should We Rent Out Our Home?
With our impending move half way across the world, we’re trying to decide whether we should rent out our home! The advice of most friends and family is to keep the house and rent it out. Mr Way’s instinct is rather different with the temptation being to sell up and start afresh. We write this …
Decision Made
In our post Decision Time, we outlined the huge decision we've been facing in the last few weeks. Well, after many sleepless nights and much deliberation, we can now announce it's decision made...... We're moving to the Caribbean! In somewhere around 6 months time, we will be leaving our home for the last 7 years …