Tag: personal finance
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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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No-Spend November
I have been feeling like I need a hard reset. Life has just been super busy the past few months, good busy, the best busy. But during the pandemic I got really used to keeping my apartment to a certain level of organization, my finances to a certain level of healthy, my chores a certain…
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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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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…
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Financial Fitness Check-In: July 2023
Well, I just checked my student loan account and at my current rate of payment I will have them paid off in November, 2033. And that sent me into a spiral. I have another DECADE. Doing that right after logging all my vacation month spends was not the best idea. But we did it. Which,…
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If Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness, Then What Is This?
No, like, seriously. Maybe it’s been that I had vacation coming up, or am now on vacation, or just the increase in Vitamin D production my body has been experiencing lately thanks to living in the Northern hemisphere, but I have been allowing myself to make decisions with my heart and not my head lately.…
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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: 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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Financial Fitness Check-In: December 2022
Welcome to the first financial fitness check-in where I am using my own spreadsheet rather than Mint and a pen and paper. It’s kind of it’s first test run. The one thing I cannot figure out is how to combine what I’ve classed as my “Bills” chart and my “Expenses” chart into one pie chart…
Laura Caeris - Thoughtful Millennial 