Summary Welcome to our 2022 annual spending post! Our total spend for the year was £69,738. For context, this is for 2 adults plus a two-year-old, living in the Caribbean since March! If you’ve been following our monthly spending posts, you’ll know how this goes. Since we moved to the Caribbean in March, our spending …
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2022 Financial Review
Here it is! Our financial review for 2022. Below, we’ll detail how we each got on this year, including progress towards our FIRE goals. If you want to see a more personal review of 2022, see this post by Mr Way. Mr Way As we’ve mentioned elsewhere, moving to the Caribbean has come with some …
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 …