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.
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – October 2021”With our impending move half way across the world, we’re trying to decide whether we should rent out our home!
The advice of most friends and family is to keep the house and rent it out.
Mr Way’s instinct is rather different with the temptation being to sell up and start afresh.
We write this article in the hope that it aligns our thought and helps our decision making, but also in the hope that some of you might have some advice to pass on!
Continue reading “Should We Rent Out Our Home?”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”It has been a strange few weeks.
We’ve slowly been settling into married life, while also settling Baby Way into the reality that he can now see other humans!
Meanwhile, I’ve been becoming increasingly tired of my job. My boss is treating me really badly, and I miss being able to work from home.
Continue reading “Decision Time”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”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.
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – July 2021”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.
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – June 2021”Welcome to our May spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,247.
This was an odd month because of a few large wedding expenses. Much more detail below. Other than that, we actually had a fairly cheap month.
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – May 2021”Welcome to our April spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,984.
Much better than the last few months!. We’ve been a bit over budget recently, mainly due to wedding expenses. April was much more ‘normal’.
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – April 2021”Welcome to our March spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,768.
Another month ticks by. As things start to return slowly towards normal, we at least have a few things to look forward to.
We’re quite a long way over our £2,000 target this month, but that was expected. We had a few wedding expenses, as well as spending on Baby Way and ourselves. It was all stuff we’ve been wanting to sort for a long time, but it’s still hard to see such a high total!
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – March 2021”