Today I technically spent about $200 in recurring personal and professional services, but since those are part of an already-defined budget I am excluding them from the “what the heck do I do with my money anyway?” analysis. Instead I’ll focus on the fun and exciting thing I did with almost $30 of my hard-earned
Low-spend, high-reward day, made possible by previous out-of-control spending (and some more carefully-deliberated purchases). Got my new cell phone activated at the local provider outpost, which happens to be conveniently located a short walk from a Starbucks. In the interest of not wasting gas and enjoying the gorgeous day, I parked in a less busy
Grocery day – with a new, more reasonable $100/week budget, even a moderate-sized Whole Foods trip was in bounds. Seems like the Amazon merger (? purchase? collaboration?) has brought many staples into “good deal” territory, including avocados and fancy (read: actually made form olives) olive oil. Interestingly enough (to my analytical brain, at least) my
Missed an expense earlier this week – ordered a case for the new phone online and it arrived today. Basic clear case to buffer all that glass from life. Retroactive total: $4.99
Recent revelation: ya can’t finish if ya don’t start. Sure, it’s probably emblazoned on assorted gas station tchotchkes (sandwiched between “fail to plan, plan to fail” and “pobody’s nerfect”), but the full implications have eluded me until today. A couple weeks ago I figured out I could probably retire before 50 if I scaled down my
With a week of this under my belt, I’m starting to feel fancy… like adding-a-photo-to-a-post fancy. Woohoo! Nailed it. So work has consumed far more than 8 hours per day this week, and my meal prep is lacking as a result. Tonight I’m having a Home Happy Hour for less than the cost of a
Since today was a gloriously spend-free day and I wanted a place to log more insights than a straight-forward spending post, I decided upon a weekly summary of expenses and lessons learned. This week’s damage: $823.85 Biggest chunk of that: technology, in the form of an almost-600-dollar-phone…still leaves more than $200 on grocery/other spending, when
Spring (a summer preview even) has come to town, and it motivated me to clean up some problem areas around the house. While I would have preferred to find the right-sized organizer among the many I’ve collected over years of mindless consumerism, I at least thought to measure (using my cell phone for reference, rather
The idea is for the weekdays to be pretty boring around here, since I try to consolidate grocery trips on the weekends. Today I could technically include the stamp and gas it took to get to the post office (to snail-mail confirmation of a gym membership cancellation), but I’ve decided to charge those upon replenishment…bringing
Today’s spending was extraordinarily high and unanticipated, but not truly unplanned. A few years ago I picked up an older model Android phone for what I thought (/still think) was an exorbitant couple hundred bucks. The phone has served me well, but over the past few months has begun to succumb to its designed obsolescence