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Welcome to our February spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,370.
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Monthly Spending – January 2022
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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 to spend as little as possible in preparation!
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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 in with shorts and t-shirts! Both of our laptops were also very old so we decided to get one between both of us. We didn’t scrimp for a change and spent £800 to get a higher spec – fingers crossed it was worthwhile! Other electrical items also needed renewing, such as Mrs Way’s straighteners, Mr Way’s electric razor etc. This is a combination of replacing old items and also the voltage being different in the Caribbean so some things won’t work there.
Once we arrive, buying these things would be much more expensive, so it makes much more sense to sort it all out now, even though it means such a painful total for our last month in 2021!
As well as that, we’ve paid a car insurance renewal this month. As we’re moving very soon, we’ll get a rebate on most of this though.
Anyway, on to the December spending post where you can see more detail on all of this and more.
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – December 2021”Annual Spending – 2021
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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 we got married in July!
We’re really happy with the total as it’s only just over our £2,000 per month target. With the wedding thrown in there as well as an additional family member since July 2020, we’re really happy.
It was always our aim to spend minimal amounts on Baby Way in the first few years, and so far we have achieved this.
See below for a more detailed breakdown of our 2021 spending.
Continue reading “Annual Spending – 2021”Monthly Spending – November 2021
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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 the blog!
As mentioned above, we decided to sell our house. We didn’t want the hassle/stress of maintaining a property in the UK while trying to set up a new life elsewhere. It might not be the best financial decision, but certainly isn’t as clear cut as many suggest (“house prices always go up” etc).
We’re aiming to write several posts documenting our move process in the coming weeks and months. Fingers crossed we’ll have more time for this in the new year!
Anyway, that’s a brief update, now back to the November spending.
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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.
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Welcome to our September spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,877.
We’re delighted to finally go back below our £2,000 target. However, this won’t be lasting long. Keep an eye out for an update on why not!
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – September 2021”Monthly Spending – August 2021
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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.
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – August 2021”Monthly Spending – July 2021
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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.
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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 all out, meaning we end with a negative spend. However, we’ve spent over our average the last few months so this simply averages those out.
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