Oh hey, remember the times when I posted my annual spending report? Because I skipped it for 2024 (I just forgot all about it at the beginning of 2025), but this time I received a reminder because all the cool kids have been sharing their 2025 spending reports, and because...
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All the cool kids have been sharing their 2023 spending reports and I used to share our annual spending, too. I don’t know if you even noticed that I skipped the one for 2022 last year. It just slipped through the cracks because I did track our spending, just never...
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In an effort to write more for the sake of writing, I am trying to sit down more often and just share what’s on my mind. I used to do this more often in the past. Sometimes, the structured, recurring posts are fun and often easier and quicker to put...
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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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photo credit: Sharon McCutcheon via Unsplash I am linking up with Kookyrunner and Zenaida for Tuesday Topics and today is National Savings Day and we’re talking about how to save money on running gear/races. When I started our running, I thought that running is a fairly inexpensive sport. All you need...
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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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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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I had hoped to post this in October, but that didn’t happen, so I am squeezing in our spending summary for Q3. Here are our spending reports for Q1 and Q2. One thing I learned this quarter is that your FSA (Flexible Spending Account) is your friend. The jury is...
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