Welcome to our May spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,263.
This month was a little higher than our target. We had a few large expenses, but nothing too out of the ordinary. We’re still ticking along nicely as we move towards Baby Way No. 2’s arrival.
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – May 2024”Welcome to our April spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,795.
Our spending this month was much closer to our target, with no large expenses and generally lower spending all-round.
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – April 2024”Welcome to our March spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,677.
Not as high as February, but another month above our ideal spending level! As we continue to settle back into UK life, we’re finding various things we want to buy to improve our quality of life. Most of these can be found in the Entertainment/misc section below!
It’s frustrating, but we really want to kit ourselves out with good quality ‘stuff’ which lasts, so we can fully enjoy our new life back in the UK. We expect our spending to settle down very soon and hopefully find a level below £2,000.
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – March 2024 “Welcome to our February spending post! Our total spend for the month was £3,729.
This is a huge jump from our new ‘normal’, because we booked a holiday! We’re in need of a break so excited to be going to Portugal at Easter time. We booked all inclusive to make the trip as relaxing as possible, as it will be our last break before baby 2 arrives in July!
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – February 2024”Welcome to our January spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,929.
Our spending is settling down now, as we get used to life in our new home!
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – January 2024 “Welcome to our annual spending post! Our total spend for the year of 2023 was £55,350. For context, this is for 2 adults plus a two-year-old, living in the Caribbean until August, then home again to the UK!
If you’ve been following our monthly spending posts, you’ll know the story. Living costs in Turks and Caicos were insane and our spending went through the roof. Since returning to the UK in late August, we’ve also spent a lot of money on rent initially, then kitting out our new home. We also bought a car on our return to the UK!
All in all, a very expensive year – but thankfully cheaper than last year!
We purchased our new home in November. We managed to buy the house outright, so this should have a significant impact on our living costs going forward. Here’s to a much cheaper 2024!!
Continue reading “Annual Spending – 2023”Welcome to our financial review for 2023! Below, we’ll detail how we each got on this year, including progress towards our FIRE goals.
We’ll also be posting a more personal review from Mr Way, as well as our annual spending summary for 2023, so keep an eye out for those!
Continue reading “2023 Financial Review”Welcome to our December spending post! Our total spend for the month was £2,945.
We bought lots of furniture and general bits for the house this month. Hopefully the total will be much lower next month!
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – December 2023 “Welcome to our November spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,432.
This is a bit misleading as it was actually a very expensive month. We moved into our new home!!
However, a large rent refund cancelled out a large amount of our spending. See below for more details.
We managed to purchase our house mortgage free, so we’re excited to see how low we can keep our expenses going forward.
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – November 2023”Welcome to our October spending post! Our total spend for the month was £1,290.
Having paid our rent up front, we’re now seeing the rewards for an expensive September!
We just moved in so we haven’t started paying any bills just yet.
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – October 2023”