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”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 roadmap all goes to plan. Our base costs are very similar to normal.
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – February 2021”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 January sales which we’ve been meaning to buy for a long time. We also booked another few bits for the wedding. See below for details on all of this.
Continue reading “Monthly Spending – January 2021”How much does a baby cost if you’re frugal? It’s really easy to spend a fortune, but we found it hard to find examples of those who are more careful with their money.
Money can be up there with the biggest worries for new parents. Baby costs are often cited as a reason why couples decide not to have children.
This is understandable considering the commercialisation of anything baby-related. There are endless gadgets and fashion statements out there for new parents. Clever marketing teams are tasked with guilt-tripping you into buying their products. You’re led to believe that if you don’t buy the latest gadgets your baby will be left behind!
Continue reading “How Much Does a Baby Cost?”We have previously written about ‘Life Design’ and our approach to creating a life we are happy to live. As with everything, our ideas have begun to evolve and develop. For me, this has been strongly influenced by personal and world events of 2020.
I was originally going to write a review of 2020 from my perspective. After thinking about it I have decided to write a forward-thinking post instead. I want to consider how living through 2020 has affected my/our aims for the future.
Continue reading “Life Design for 2021”