Tag: budget
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Financial Fitness Check-In: November 2023
So it was supposed to be a No-Spend November, and overall I did quite well. But for all my bluster about avoiding Black Friday, I succumbed. I did do what I said I would and only bought things I have been thinking about for ages or actually needed. I bought a printer, ink, and a…
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Financial Fitness Check-In: September 2023
This is the second last month of the Year of Weddings and I CANNOT wait to be having a normal budget month. It’s only going to be November because in December I will be travelling home for the holidays, and then in January be coming back up north. So we have November and then February…
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Financial Fitness Check-In: August 2023
The summer of spending money would be a very accurate description. Taylor Swift in Minneapolis in June, Phoenix, New York, London, and Ireland in July, Toronto in August. It’s not slowing down at all until mid-October, but I am actually thinking that we will be making a net return for the black in September. But…
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Financial Fitness Check-In: June 2023
Do I have any regrets? Some small ones. Is Taylor Swift one of them? Heck no. Neither are the tennis lessons or really anything else, I’ve decide that all of this stuff is October me’s problem. Obvious disclaimer: this is not a wise way to conduct your financial planning, however, I want to enjoy my…
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Financial Fitness Check-In: May ’23
For some reason, I am really struggling with how to start this this month, so I’m just going to start writing and see what happens. This is the overall breakdown of everywhere my money went in the month of May. This chart is very illuminating to me because I would really like to see a…
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April Financial Fitness Check-In
April was a weird month, because I both had significantly more income than I was expecting, but I also spent way more than I was expecting, partly as a result of that and I still have some outstanding reimbursements as some of the things I bought were for other things. In my bills category I…
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Financial Fitness Check-In: March 2023
To be completely frank, I was a bit of an idiot in March. Not totally, I’ll get into it in the breakdown, but some of it was just me not thinking. I’m really working on tightening the belt in April, May, and June so that I can have fun on what is working out to…
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Financial Fitness Check-in: February 2023
February was a disappointing but significantly less expensive month than it was supposed to be. I was supposed to go down to Minneapolis for a long weekend and do some shopping and go to a Maggie Rogers concert, but instead I broke my tailbone so I spent most of February lying on my stomach with…
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Financial Fitness Check-in: January 2023
January was an interesting month spending wise, I spent the first week of the month in Toronto on vacation seeing friends and then came back up north and had to pay for airport parking for the 17 days I was gone and pet sitting for those days (insert Chrissy Teigen cringe face meme). It’s funny,…
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What I’m Buying in December
It is so interesting to make this post this month, because despite it being December, famously one of the spendiest months of the year. I’m not planning on buying that much? Of course, I didn’t put the Christmas presents I’m buying in the collage (I know my sister sometimes reads this, I don’t think anyone…
Laura Caeris - Thoughtful Millennial 