The Breakdown The Normal (Needs) Spending: Rent (Home), Student Loans (Education), Utilities (Bills & Utilities), Credit Card interest fees (Fees & Charges). Spending update: Starting June 2019, I will no longer be paying my metro card out of pocket. Instead, it is paid out of my paycheck with pre-tax money. It no longer will factor … More Spending Habits: July 2019
The Breakdown The Normal (Needs) Spending: Rent (Home), Student Loans (Education), Utilities (Bills & Utilities), Credit Card interest fees (Fees & Charges). Spending update for June 2019: Going forward starting this month, I will no longer be paying my metro card out of pocket. Instead, it is paid out of my paycheck with pre-tax money. … More Spending Habits: June 2019
This month’s spending habits breakdown is brought to you by my re-vamped Mint account. I’ve added my student loan account, my 401(k), and my new credit card to my account so I could get a sense of my net worth (still in the negatives in case anyone is wondering how my student loans are doing). … More Spending Habits: May 2019
Hello! I’ve done a few of these posts already for January and February. I kind of purposely skipped March since so much of that spending was related to travel and I have a couple of posts in the pipeline about that specifically. So I’m jumping into this monthly recap knowing that I’m coming off a … More Spending Habits: April 2019
I started analyzing my spending last month and posting about it here, so the tradition continues! I tried really hard this month not to overspend. I wanted to make sure that I had a cushion of savings for when we go on vacation (as of this post only one week away!). So my spending was … More Spending Habits: February 2019
This time of year is so tempting for me to want to buy-all-the-things! The “sale on sale,” new merchandise, a feeling of general wanting. It’s all part of my problem of shopping. For the most part, I have resisted, but that’s only because I let myself shop one “sale on sale” and make other purchases … More Shopping My Closet
Thought I would try something new with a monthly spending recap! Just a way to analyze my spending and see where I can improve. Even though I don’t really like to rely upon MINT to keep track of my day to day spending, I do like the feature with the spending breakdown by category so … More Spending Habits: January 2019
This is a follow up to last week’s money post: How did I do with my Cyber Monday Strategy? First of all, I did buy things for my upcoming trip, importantly carry-on suitcases, but it turns out that they were the wrong size, so we’re going to look into returning those and ordering from somewhere … More Holiday Gifting and Budgeting
Heather Allen 