Summary Welcome to our August spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,475. It's another month over our target spending of £2,000 but we feel like we're more on top of things now. We'll see if we can get back on track in the coming months. We break our main expenses down into …
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Monthly Spending – July 2021
Summary Welcome to our July spending post! During July we got married. Say goodbye to Miss Way and hello to Mrs Way! With our wedding done we’re hoping our monthly spending will return to normal because it has been all over the place recently. Our total spend for the month was £2,822. We break our …
Monthly Spending – June 2021
Summary Welcome to our June spending post! Our total spend for the month was £-408. This came about because we received another generous donation towards our wedding costs from parents. We wanted to include this in our spending post for full transparency. Despite various balances being due this month, we still didn’t manage to cancel it …
Monthly Spending – May 2021
Summary Welcome to our May spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,247. This was an odd month because of a few large wedding expenses. Much more detail below. Other than that, we actually had a fairly cheap month. We break our main expenses down into broad categories starting with the big 3; housing, food …
Monthly Spending – April 2021
Summary Welcome to our April spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,984. Much better than the last few months!. We’ve been a bit over budget recently, mainly due to wedding expenses. April was much more ‘normal’. We break our main expenses down into broad categories starting with the big 3; housing, food and transport. …
Monthly Spending – March 2021
Summary Welcome to our March spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,768. Another month ticks by. As things start to return slowly towards normal, we at least have a few things to look forward to. We’re quite a long way over our £2,000 target this month, but that was expected. We had …
Monthly Spending – February 2021
Summary Welcome to our February spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,365. The next few months are likely to be a bit over our ‘normal’ target of £2,000 a month due to our impending wedding. We’re busy planning because it looks like we’ll be able to go ahead, assuming the opening up …
Monthly Spending – January 2021
Summary Welcome to our January spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,049. It seemed like 2020 would never end, but we finally made it to 2021! Fingers crossed for a more positive, normal year. Our total this month is slightly over our £2,000 target, but we bought a few things in the …
How Much Does a Baby Cost?
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 …
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 …