Tag: budget
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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: October 2022
October was a much more expensive month than I expected it would be or thought it was. There were a couple annual expenses that I forgot about and I impulse decided to buy concert tickets for Maggie Rogers in February. The other financial thing that is a big relief is that I have new landlords,…
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Financial Fitness Check-in: August 2022
This was a bit of a weird month, it felt like I didn’t do anything, go anywhere, or buy anything, but I somehow spent a ton of money?? Some of it is for future stuff, like travel tickets for while I’m home, but most of it is bills and food. This was also one of…
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Financial Fitness Check-In: March 2022
Coming into March I had a feeling that this would be the month that turned things around. I had so many reimbursements, so much overtime, so much COVID pay, some pet sitting (that turned into a lot of pet sitting!) and I have never been so right about something. I have money in multiple savings…
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Financial Fitness Check-In: February 2022
2022 so far is the year that I set a goal of never using my overdraft protection and the year that I am consistently using my overdraft protection. Although I do think that March, with all the overtime I’ve been putting in, the COVID pay, and the pet sitting I have booked, I think this…
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Financial Fitness Check-In: January 2022
I have a lot of financial goals this year, and to be honest we are not off to a good start. I think that this month will turn things around if I continue to keep my spending in check. I think most people find January to be a lean month, at least people that celebrate…
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2022 Goals/Plans/Aspirations
I don’t know what to call this post or these things. Calling them plans seems like asking for failure as we head into the third calendar year of the pandemic, when nearly all plans have been dashed, destroyed, and ruined. Including the majority of my Christmas break plans, so I guess having plans ruined is…
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Spending Check In: November Review, December Plans
So like I said last month, I hoping that putting my money choices and realities out there (loosely, without super explicit details, that feels weird). And well, November was a disaster. It would have been fine if I hadn’t needed to spend $1000 on winter tires, I would have pushed my budget to the limits,…
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November Spending Plan: When Expected Expenses are More Expensive than Expected
In an effort to hold myself even more accountable with my personal finances I want to start logging them on here, both spending plans or a monthly budget at the beginning of the month and a check-in at the end of the month. Last month was one of the first net positive months I have…
Laura Caeris - Thoughtful Millennial 