Category: financial fitness
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Financial Fitness Check-in: November 2022
November was not nearly as bad as I was expecting it to be, I really thought I had totally blown my budget. There was just so much unexpected work travel, and while I get reimbursed for it, it still ends up costing money in food and then you’re tired the next day so you buy…
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What I’m Buying in November
I’m not planning on buying much in November, not a no-buy but just really scaling it back. I also want to really refocus on saving. I want to have enough savings to be able to apply for jobs all over and not be worried about how much it costs to move there, I want to…
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Financial Fitness Check-In: September 2022
I need to preface September 2022’s check-in by saying that this was the first time I have taken a proper vacation since pre-pandemic, maybe even since 2018, and that I had been saving for months for it. It’s also the first vacation I’ve ever taken with like real adult money. So saying I spent moneyyy…
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What I’m Buying in August
I’m not buying much in August, I don’t need much right now and I’m going home in September and I’ll probably do most of my fall shopping while there. I’m also refusing to acknowledge the looming fall and winter, it is still summer goddamnit and I am going to eke out every last second. So…
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Financial Fitness Check In: July ’22
This post was supposed to go up last Friday, but instead I went out on Thursday night instead of writing it. July was a more expensive month than I planned it to be, I started out the month saying I wanted to do a no-buy, or at least a low-buy and I really did not…
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Mid-Year Check-In
Firstly, I need to profusely apologize for last week, I don’t even know what happened. I can see on my laptop that I had all the photos edited and loaded for the “Week in Outfits” post and that I had started pulling articles for the “Mid-Week Procrastination”, and they just didn’t happen. It was an…
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What I’m Buying in July
I’m doing a bit of a low-buy this month, May and June were pretty spendy with trips to Winnipeg and Minneapolis, and I need to bring it back in and re-focus on my other financial goals again. I do however really need some new activewear, a couple skincare restocks, and it’s my birthday month so…
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Financial Fitness Check-In: June 2022
June was an amazing month, I did some travel, I was social, I crossed some things off my shopping list and 2022 plans, and had some adventures. Unfortunately, that does mean that I had a more expensive month than I was hoping for. I don’t regret it so much as I know I have to…
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Financial Fitness Check-In: What I Spent in May
I know that May was going to be a bit more of a spendy month for me, I had a trip planned to get out of my one-horse town (literally, I have seen 1 horse here, and I am a former horse girl, so I notice stuff like that) and that I was looking to…
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What I’m Buying in May
This has quickly become one of my favourite posts to write in this Month in Review/Monthly Planning series that I do. It makes me so much more intentional about what I purchase, what I do with my money, and I do stick to it, and if there is something that comes up in the middle…
Laura Caeris - Thoughtful Millennial 