Summary 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! We break our main expenses down …
Category: Monthly Spending
Monthly Spending – December 2022
Summary 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 …
Monthly Spending – November 2022
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. We break our main expenses down …
Monthly Spending – October 2022
Summary Welcome to our October spending post! Our total spend for the month was £5,594 or $6,433. We’re generally expecting to be closer to $5,000 in a ‘typical’ month, so this was a bit above our expectations. This is mostly due to booking flights for our New York trip, as well as extra expenses with …
Monthly Spending – September 2022
Summary Welcome to our September spending post! Our total spend for the month was £5,455 or $6,273. We’re generally expecting to be closer to $5,000 in a ‘typical’ month, so this was a bit above our expectations. This is mostly due to booking a trip to New York! We break our main expenses down into …
Monthly Spending – August 2022
Summary Welcome to our August spending post! Our total spend for the month was £4,383 or $5,259. With our UK visit over, August was about settling back into our new routine in the Caribbean. Spending wise, we had a fairly consistent month and would be happy if we could stick around this level for the next …
Monthly Spending – July 2022
Summary Welcome to our July spending post! Our total spend for the month was £5,042 or $6,049. Our July spending was quite high across the board. This is because we spent most of the month back in the UK! Mr Way was back for 2 weeks, with Mrs Way and Baby Way staying for 4. …
Monthly Spending – June 2022
Summary Welcome to our June spending post! Our total spend for the month was £3,601 or $4,321. Our June spending was much lower than the previous two months. We’re finally settling into life in the Caribbean and most of the large start-up costs are now out of the way. It’s still significantly higher than …
Monthly Spending – May 2022
Summary Welcome to our May spending post! Our total spend for the month was £14,948 or $18,835. Once again, our spending has been massively impacted by large set-up costs. This month we bought a car for $11,000. We also had the associated costs to pay – insurance, license transfers from UK to local, as well …
Monthly Spending – April 2022
Summary Welcome to our April spending post! Our total spend for the month was £10,415 or $12,811. Our first full month of living in the Caribbean! The budget was totally blown this month because of our large up-front rent payment. Luckily this is on an interest free loan, but we still wanted to include it …