Tag: finances

• 4 Weeks To Get It Together

  

  If you’ve been reading this summer you know that I have been all over the place. I have been in Phoenix, New York, London, all over Northern Ireland, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, and still have two more weddings (in one trip, thank God) and I am feeling very frazzled. I made a TikTok on Monday going…

  Laura – Thoughtful Millenial

  August 23, 2023

  financial fitness, productivity, travel

  cat, cat mom, chores, finances, GYST, Millennial Money, Organisation, organization, personal finance, post-travel, travel

• 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…

  Laura – Thoughtful Millenial

  March 3, 2022

  month in review

  budget, February in Review, finances, financial fitness, money check in, month in review, personal finance

• 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…

  Laura – Thoughtful Millenial

  January 4, 2022

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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,…

  Laura – Thoughtful Millenial

  December 7, 2021

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  budget, Canada, Christmas budget, Dave Ramsey, December, finances, millenial, money, money talk, Northwest Ontario, Northwestern Ontario, Ontario, personal finance, snowball method, spending, thoughtful millenial, vet, vet care, winter

• 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 – Thoughtful Millenial

  November 4, 2021

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  budget, budgeting, finances, food budget, millenial, millenial money, money, money diaries, money management, money sads, money saving, money talk, nihilism, Northwest Ontario, Northwestern Ontario, Ontario, personal finance, thoughtful millenial

• Money, Money, Money: 1

  

  I really want to get my finances in order. I’m tired of living paycheque to paycheque and have half my money go to paying off loans or credit cards every month. I want to buy furniture and travel and have savings so that I can do those things in the future. But I also get…

  Laura – Thoughtful Millenial

  April 12, 2021

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  bills, budget, budgeting, credit card debt, credit cards, Dave Ramsey, emergency fund, finances, financial minimalism, investing, millenial, millenial money, money, money diaries, personal finance, saving, sinking fund, snowball method, student debt, student loans, travel fund