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
In March we took a major trip to Europe. It was Josh’s first time overseas and my first time going to some new cities. We planned to be traveling for 10 days in total. Our trip was Paris (3 nights), Florence (2 nights), Rome (1 night), Dublin (1 night), and London (2 nights) — plus … More How Much We Paid for a 10 Day Europe Trip
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
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
Heather Allen 