Summary Welcome to our September spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,822. Another expensive month, with several large outlays. Our annual car insurance premium was due, as well as a few other items explaing throughout the post. Unfortunately this seems to be a recurring theme, with different items cropping up every month. …
Category: Monthly Spending
Monthly Spending – August 2024
Summary Welcome to our August spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,415. It’s another month above our target! This month we had to pay our vehicle tax for the year. We also had a significant spend on eating out, due to a camping trip. As well as the above, we’re starting to …
Monthly Spending – July 2024
Summary Welcome to our July spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,665. During July we introduced the newest member of our family! We’re now a 4! It was quite an expensive month for various reasons, the baby actually not really being a big factor at all! Most of the cost for our …
Monthly Spending – June 2024
Summary Welcome to our June spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,772. It was quite a boring month thankfully! We still ideally want to reduce our spending average further, but we’re still getting set up in our new house, preparing for a new baby and generally adjusting to life back in the …
Monthly Spending – May 2024
Summary Welcome to our May spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,263. This month was a little higher than our target. We had a few large expenses, but nothing too out of the ordinary. We’re still ticking along nicely as we move towards Baby Way No. 2’s arrival. We break our …
Monthly Spending – April 2024
Summary Welcome to our April spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,795. Our spending this month was much closer to our target, with no large expenses and generally lower spending all-round. We break our main expenses down into broad categories starting with the big 3; housing, food and transport. Everything else falls into the …
Monthly Spending – March 2024
Summary Welcome to our March spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,677. Not as high as February, but another month above our ideal spending level! As we continue to settle back into UK life, we’re finding various things we want to buy to improve our quality of life. Most of these can …
Monthly Spending – February 2024
Summary Welcome to our February spending post! Our total spend for the month was £3,729. This is a huge jump from our new ‘normal’, because we booked a holiday! We’re in need of a break so excited to be going to Portugal at Easter time. We booked all inclusive to make the trip as relaxing …
Monthly Spending – January 2024
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! We break our main expenses down into broad categories starting with the big 3; housing, food and transport. Everything else falls into the entertainment category, …
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! We break our main expenses down into broad categories starting with the big 3; housing, food and transport. Everything …