Apparently my new cadence is to update these "monthly" financial reports every two months, and right before the next month ticks over. As Regina and I keep asking each other - where has the time gone?! We are definitely in a time vortex these days. Somehow we're almost in October? I don't get it. Time…
It's now the first week of July, and I'm just now getting around to finally recap our May (and June) spending. Instead of splitting them up into two separate blog posts, I've decided to simply include them together in this one and move on and be glad that I've caught up. As I've said in…
One of these months, I'll get back to doing these updates before the last week of the following month. Clearly, I'm not there yet though, as we're a week away from June now. Thanks to the accountability of promising that I would update here publicly, I still make sure to go through our spending in…
March was a really expensive month. Except...it wasn't. Quite a bit of money ended up being charged on our credit cards, but a good portion of that spending doesn't actually end up here on my report today, for a number of different reasons. Number one being that we received our stimulus checks for this round,…
"It will take me only like twenty minutes to finish this if I can focus." - Why I am only now finishing this post on March 21st. It's been a loooooong year around our kiddos, hasn't it? February was three weeks ago, and wow does it feel like a long time ago already. And yet,…
Well, I made it. It is still February and I'm posting my January update. Phew. If it wasn't for the accountability of always posting these each month here on the blog, this one probably wouldn't have gotten done. Every time though, I am so glad that I have the data and have done the reflection…
Considering January is almost over, I'm glad to finally check this off my list and finish off my year end reporting on our finances. It's been long enough that I had completely forgotten that I'd already checked in on the end of my 2020 goals (though I still need to share - and finalize -…
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…
Waiting until near the end of November to write this post might have been a mistake, because I'm able to look back at the relative freedom we had to move around and do things in October stings a bit. Granted, "relative freedom" means a camping trip with our two friends and eating outside at restaurants…
Looking back to where our finances were in 2017 when we had to use our emergency fund, we've come a long way in getting a closer hold on our monthly expenses and are so much better prepared to adjust as needed. We've been lucky this year to both have our jobs, though our roommate has…