Summary Welcome to our November spending post! This month, we spent a total of £3,333. November was a more expensive month, with a few big items. We started buying Christmas presents, and also added some high-end outdoor gear to help us better enjoy the winter. We also paid the deposit for a holiday next April. Otherwise a fairly normal month. We’ve sorted our spending into the essentials—housing, food, and transport—plus …
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Monthly Spending – October 2025
Summary Welcome to our October spending post! This month, we spent a total of £2,284. October was a fairly boring month for spending, which makes for a lower total than the last 3 months. We had a higher total than usual on food, plus a couple of big items in entertainment/misc, but generally we’re quite pleased with how it went. We’ve sorted our spending into the essentials—housing, …
Monthly Spending – September 2025
Summary Welcome to our September spending post! This month, we spent a total of £3,558. September brought its fair share of everyday expenses, but one particular addition tipped the balance to being a very expensive month. Mrs Way has decided to do a 12-week programme with an online personal trainer, at the grand total of £1,500. This is an attempt to kick-start a fitness regime which has been a struggle for Mrs Way …
Monthly Spending – August 2025
Summary Welcome to our August spending post! This month, we clocked in at a total of £2,702. August brought its fair share of everyday expenses, but also a few memorable extras—a couple of mini getaways pushed our food and eating out costs a bit higher, and renewing the car tax nudged up transport spending. Thankfully, we …
Monthly Spending – July 2025
Summary Welcome to our July spending post! Our total spend for the month was £3,131. This month has been hijacked by an admin error! We forgot to include some of our June spending, so it’s lumped in with July instead. 3 of our 4 birthdays also needed paying for, as well as a trip away! …
Monthly Spending – June 2025
Summary Welcome to our June spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,618. It’s another low spend this month, with no abnormal expenses. Long may it continue! 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, with any …
Monthly Spending – May 2025
Summary Welcome to our May 2025 spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,784. It’s another low spend this month, with no abnormal expenses. Long may it continue! 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, with …
Monthly Spending – April 2025
Summary Welcome to our April spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,716. This is our lowest spend for a while, thanks to no significant bills being due this month. We break our main expenses down into broad categories starting with the big 3; housing, food and transport. Everything else falls into …
Monthly Spending – March 2025
Summary Welcome to our March spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,449. This is probably about our ‘standard’ monthly expenditure now. Unfortunately we keep having large expenses in between, so our ‘average’ is coming our closer to £3,000 than we would like. We break our main expenses down into broad categories …
Monthly Spending – February 2025
Summary Welcome to our February spending post! Our total spend for the month was £6,052. What would have been a successful month was derailed by a failed boiler. We’ve been desperate to have a cheap month, but there always seems to be something we need to spend! Unfortunately, this month was a significant outlay on …