Summary 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. We break our main expenses down into broad categories starting with the big 3; housing, food …
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Monthly Spending – April 2021
Summary 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’. We break our main expenses down into broad categories starting with the big 3; housing, food and transport. …
Monthly Spending – March 2021
Summary 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 …
Monthly Spending – February 2021
Summary Welcome to our February spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,365. The next few months are likely to be a bit over our ‘normal’ target of £2,000 a month due to our impending wedding. We’re busy planning because it looks like we’ll be able to go ahead, assuming the opening up …
Monthly Spending – January 2021
Summary Welcome to our January spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,049. It seemed like 2020 would never end, but we finally made it to 2021! Fingers crossed for a more positive, normal year. Our total this month is slightly over our £2,000 target, but we bought a few things in the …
Annual Spending – 2020
Summary Welcome to our annual spending post! Our total spend for the year of 2020 was £22,858. For context, this is for 2 adults plus a baby, born in July 2020. If you’ve been following our monthly spending posts, you’ll know how this goes. Throughout 2020 we managed to keep our spending pretty low. We’re …
Monthly Spending – December 2020
Summary Welcome to our December spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,454. Finally, we made it! Sometimes it felt like 2020 would never end, but here we are. For more of a review of the year, see Mr Way’s 2020 Personal Review and our Financial Review too. We’ll also be posting a summary of …
2020 Financial Review
Here it is! Our financial review for 2020. 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 2020, see this post by Mr Way. Mr Way As far as my FIRE journey is concerned, it has been steady …
Monthly Spending – November 2020
Summary Welcome to our November spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,818. There weren’t any big expenses this month, just a few Christmas presents etc. Steady away! That’s what national lockdown does for you. See below for the full details! We break our main expenses down into broad categories starting with the …
Monthly Spending – October 2020
Summary Welcome to our October spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,952. This marks another month below our target of £2,000, even considering we had to buy a new washing machine! Coronavirus restrictions have certainly seen a reduction in our spending, as there aren’t many things we’re allowed to do! With another …