Summary
Welcome to our January spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,929.
Our spending is settling down now, as we get used to life in our new home!
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Annual Spending – 2023
Summary
Welcome to our annual spending post! Our total spend for the year of 2023 was £55,350. For context, this is for 2 adults plus a two-year-old, living in the Caribbean until August, then home again to the UK!
If you’ve been following our monthly spending posts, you’ll know the story. Living costs in Turks and Caicos were insane and our spending went through the roof. Since returning to the UK in late August, we’ve also spent a lot of money on rent initially, then kitting out our new home. We also bought a car on our return to the UK!
All in all, a very expensive year – but thankfully cheaper than last year!
We purchased our new home in November. We managed to buy the house outright, so this should have a significant impact on our living costs going forward. Here’s to a much cheaper 2024!!
Continue reading “Annual Spending – 2023”Monthly Spending – December 2023
Summary
Welcome to our December spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,945.
We bought lots of furniture and general bits for the house this month. Hopefully the total will be much lower next month!
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Summary
Welcome to our November spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,432.
This is a bit misleading as it was actually a very expensive month. We moved into our new home!!
However, a large rent refund cancelled out a large amount of our spending. See below for more details.
We managed to purchase our house mortgage free, so we’re excited to see how low we can keep our expenses going forward.
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – November 2023”Monthly Spending – October 2023
Summary
Welcome to our October spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,290.
Having paid our rent up front, we’re now seeing the rewards for an expensive September!
We just moved in so we haven’t started paying any bills just yet.
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – October 2023”Monthly Spending – September 2023
Summary
Welcome to our September spending post! Our total spend for the month was £9,697.
Ouch!!
It’s a huge month, as we continue to get set back up in England. We’ve paid 6 months’ rent up front, while we wait for our house purchase to go through. We also purchased various things for the flat/house, including a good quality, non-toxic mattress for Baby Way.
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – September 2023”Monthly Spending – August 2023
Summary
Welcome to our August spending post! Our total spend for the month was £5,987 or $7,425.
It’s all change this month! During August we moved back to the UK, meaning from next month we can finally stop having split currencies in the spending posts!
We’ll provide a full update soon, but we’re currently temporarily renting an apartment while purchasing a property in England.
Mr Way will be working part time, as will Mrs Way, with the little one (now 3 years old!) making the most of the free childcare hours.
There’s lots to catch up on, but we’ll leave the summary there for the sake of this post and get straight to the spending.
The biggest item this month was a car purchase in the UK! We sold our car in the Caribbean, so we’ve reduced the cost by the sale amount.
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – August 2023 “Monthly Spending – July 2023
Summary
Welcome to our July spending post! Our total spend for the month was £4,042 or $5,115.
Time for a big announcement. We’re leaving the Caribbean!
We were supposed to be moving country for Mr Way’s job, but this has fallen through and we will now be returning to the UK. This is equal parts relief and disappointment for us. We’ve thoroughly enjoyed our time here, but we weren’t willing to move again for a company who weren’t treating us well.
Because of this, we have a few differences in our spending this month. We paid our last rent instalment because the last month was paid for on moving in. We’ve also increased our spending in a few areas as we look to make the most of the last few weeks here. Anyway, on to the spending!
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – July 2023 “Monthly Spending – June 2023
Summary
Welcome to our June spending post! Our total spend for the month was £4,483 or $5,379.
This was one of our best months since our move to the Caribbean. We had no large expenses and generally kept our spending to a minimum. In theory we should be pleased, but the fact our minimum spending is over $5k is still quite shocking to us!!
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – June 2023”Monthly Spending – May 2023
Summary
Welcome to our May spending post! Our total spend for the month was £4,972 or $5,968.
All in all, this was a fairly typical month for us. We had a few large car expenses, with the insurance and tax being due. Otherwise, everything went fairly smoothly!
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