Category: personal

  • June 2021 in review: Money + Life

    June 2021 in review: Money + Life

    Today I’m going back to my roots to break down my expenses. It’s not until I really have to take a long hard look do I start to pare down my expenses. So, here we are. First, a look at the big picture:  June 2021 May 2021 Cash $7,748 $7,460 Investments $64,844 $64,844 Net…

  • October 2020 in review: Money + Life

    It’s NOVEMBER and I have no idea what’s going on with my money.  I thought about going back month by month to take a look at my expenses… to be honest, I still think it would be a healthy exercise. But since there’s a pandemic and life as we know it is no longer a…

  • May 2020 in Review: Money + Life

    Well then. I’ve been gone for a few months and so.much.has.happened. A global pandemic, a stock market crash, a recession on the rise, a black lives matter movement awakening. Right around the time that I was writing my February 2020 recap, the world changed very quickly – we were told to take our laptops home…

  • January 2020 in Review: Money + Life

    The money part:  Whew. This one was a spendy month. I’m still trying to get a hang of living on one income, and because we have a decent cushion, I’m less inclined to really adjust our spending to what it should be. Lifestyle inflation is real, y’all.  I’m totally 100% comfortable adjusting my personal spending…

  • Financial independence and thriving on one income

    If you told me 3 years ago that we would be happy living off of one income, I woulda told you duh. But if you told me it would be *my income* I honestly would have panicked.  Let’s get this out of the way: our lifestyle is lavish and our expenses are high. We’re two…

  • 2020 Goals and Looking Ahead

    If I’m being perfectly honest, I’m amazed I even managed to write monthly on here. It was so easy and the time flew by so quick I can hardly believe I started in August and spent time thinking about writing every single month! I’m not even a writer, but it’s liberating writing my thoughts down…

  • December 2019 in Review: Money + Life

    The money part:  A reminder to myself of why I’m doing a month in review post:  Stay accountable. It is soOOOooOOOoo easy for me to be semi ok with my spending knowing there’s at least a couple thousand in my checking account, but I know I’m currently bleeding money and can’t reach my 100K goal…

  • November 2019 in Review: Money + Life

    The money part:  A reminder to myself of why I’m doing a month in review post:  Stay accountable. It is soOOOooOOOoo easy for me to be semi ok with my spending knowing there’s at least a couple thousand in my checking account, but I know I’m currently bleeding money and can’t reach my 100K goal…

  • October 2019 in Review: Money + Life

    The money part:  A reminder to myself of why I’m doing a month in review post:  Stay accountable. It is soOOOooOOOoo easy for me to be semi ok with my spending knowing there’s at least a couple thousand in my checking account, but I know I’m currently bleeding money and can’t reach my 100K goal…

  • September 2019 in Review: Money + Life

    The money part:  A reminder to myself of why I’m doing a month in review post:  Stay accountable. It is soOOOooOOOoo easy for me to be semi ok with my spending knowing there’s at least a couple thousand in my checking account, but I know I’m currently bleeding money and can’t reach my 100K goal…