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! 

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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!! 

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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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Welcome to our April spending post! Our total spend for the month was £6,602 or $7,922. 

A two week holiday to Antigua has really destroyed our spending this month!  

We had already paid for the flights and half of the villa, but this month added the extra half of the villa as well as all of our eating out/activities while away.  

Fingers crossed we can get back to normal in the coming months, we certainly won’t be going on another holiday for a while so that should help! 

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Welcome to our March spending post! Our total spend for the month was £4,528 or $5,433. 

Another steady month as our spending hovers around the $5k mark. Unfortunately, we expect April to be a different story, as we’re heading to Antigua for 2 weeks! 

We’ve had major issues with our website recently, hence the delay in posting. Unfortunately, our Bluehost subscription failed to auto-renew, which they didn’t inform us of. This led to our site being deleted and all data lost! After many emails, they finally managed to restore everything, so fingers crossed we’re back to normal. We were really worried for a while that we had lost 4 years’ worth of blogging!

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Welcome to our February spending post! Our total spend for the month was £4,156 or $4,988. 

We finally made it below $5,000! We’ve had the target in mind for a while now, but the last couple of months have included expenses for a future holiday. Now that’s out the way, we finally managed to get the total below target! It doesn’t feel like a huge achievement, because we used to spend so much less. But actually, $5k in such a HCOL place is quite impressive! 

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Welcome to our January spending post! Our total spend for the month was £5,216 or $6,259. 

As we’ve mentioned before, the goal is to get our spending below $5,000 as often as possible. We paid for our holiday accommodation this month, but otherwise haven’t done too badly!  

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Welcome to our December spending post! Our total spend for the month was £5,185 or $6,324. 

December saw us visit New York for a week to get our wintery Christmas fix. We hadn’t been to New York before so we did a lot of the ‘touristy’ activities, meaning a lot of expense! We also ate out a lot so the costs quickly added up. It was all very much worth it though, we loved it!

Over the Christmas break we’ve also been planning our next trip, which will be to Antigua in April! We paid for the flights in December so that has added a large sum to this month’s spending!

Summary 

Welcome to our November spending post! Our total spend for the month was £5,185 or $6,324. 

Throughout November we had 2 sets of visitors, so we spent quite a lot on eating out and doing trips etc! Everything is really expensive here, so it very quickly adds up.