I can’t believe I am doing another annual spending report. I feel like I just did this, but this is just because 2021 just flew by in the blink of an eye. As always, I pulled these data out of YNAB* — You Need A Budget, the software I’ve been using...
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2021 Time I woke up: 7:00 a.m. First thing I did upon waking: a 45 min Peloton “Turkey Burn” spin class, followed by a (virtual) 5k Turkey Trot around the neighborhood. (Gotta earn that Thanksgiving dinner + pie!) Today’s...
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photo credit: Anna Tukhfatullina via Unsplash The day after Thanksgiving seems to be a good time to talk about not being wasteful, don’t you think? Especially considering the fact that lots of people probably didn’t have as nice a Thanksgiving meal as you and I just had. The Turkey Trot...
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2021 credit: inspiredkindness.com Did you know that today is World Kindness Day? It’s an unofficial, international holiday that is observed annually on November 13 as part of the World Kindness Movement. It is observed in many countries...
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2021 photo credit: @elloproducts via Unsplash Meal planning vs. meal prepping, what is the difference? Is there a difference? Because I have seen people use these two terms interchangeably, I thought I’d clear up the confusion between...
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2021 photo credit: @dkfra19 via Unsplash I am sure many of us use a lot of the same apps every day. Email, Calendar, Weather, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter. We use Kindle, Spotify, Podcasts, and not to forget Starbucks....
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I stole this idea from Stephany (who adapted it from another blog friend) because it was a fun way to write a recap “day in the life”-style, which I haven’t done in a while. Time I woke up: 6:00 a.m. Tuesdays are my run days and I usually get out for...
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When I was looking for our 2019 spending report, I realized with surprise that I never posted it last year. I had done quarterly reports throughout the year of 2019 and then never shared the annual report. I also completely dropped the quarterly reports through 2020 (might have been a...
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It’s been six months to the day since we were told to go into full-time telework status. We were given two days to figure out the logistics, grab all our necessary stuff from the office, and make sure that we had a functioning workspace set up at home. Not a...
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Last year, I skipped the spending report for the 4th quarter of the previous year, because I didn’t get around to analyze it before January was over and then it made more sense to do the annual spending report for the whole year. This year I am trying to wrap...
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