After a month of counting weeks differently thanks to my birthday, the new year, and the intense weeks we lived through in January, it's time to go back to counting the weeks by COVID, since we are about to hit the one year mark. Going back and reading my first few weeks living with COVID…
For whatever reason, November has trended to be one of our least expensive months of the year, ever since I started tracking back in 2017. This year was no exception, even though this year looked so different than the last three. Honestly, it's been a long time since we've spent so little in a month…
Nine months into the COVID-19 Pandemic here in the United States, local businesses are really struggling to stay afloat. Washington State initially shut down indoor dining mid-March, reopening at 25% capacity in the summer, and then more recently, shutting it back down again as cases have skyrocketed. While we haven't eaten inside a restaurant since…
April's spending looked pretty similar to March, and both looked very different from months prior. COVID-19 spending looks like food, drink, and housing expenses, with very little else. While this might change a little bit through the summer months, I expect things to look pretty similar for much of the year. When travel isn't really…
Every time I'm behind writing a monthly finance update (like this month), I'm reminded of why I've committed to sharing our spending here on the blog every month. Two thirds of the way into September, it would be easy enough to ignore my August recap and just continue on forward like the month didn't happen.…