Related Links I’ll cut to the chase: We spent $5,894.51 in March for our family of four. You can scroll down to the see the breakdown of categories in our fancy Numbers chart. This total is only slightly higher than our spending in January or February, and March included our family trip to Maui (some of our most-effective-ever …
Remember: We call this a “spending” report on purpose – not “our expenses” or “our costs of living” or anything else that implies that our use of our money is something that just happens to us while we sit there in helplessness.
Putting Our Cards on the Table In an effort to keep myself accountable to the idea that doctors do not have to spend a totally ridiculous amount of money to live well and love life, I’ve decided to share our spending for last month
A couple quick notes before we dive in to the numbers: I decided back in January of 2018 to share our family’s spending publicly for a whole year. This was an attempt to prove that doctors do not have to spend a totally ridiculous amount of money to live well and love life and more …
This is where travel hacking took us in 2018: Not too bad, especially considering Baby J couldn’t get a passport until late last year. Below you’ll find our total costs and savings from all those trips, listed by month of the year.
December included a wonderful few days of celebrating Christmas with loved ones in our hometown, followed by the excitement of jetting off to Interlaken, Switzerland to ring in the New Year with some good friends. (I included the whole trip in our “December spending” even though it overlapped January by 4 days.) A quick reminder: …
The most exciting (and most expensive) part of November was our week-long escape to the warm waters of the Bahamas and the beautiful Gulf Coast of Florida. The cost breakdown of that trip can be found here. A quick reminder: these monthly spending reports are an effort to keep myself accountable to the idea that …
So October included a Car vs. Bike Rack showdown. The bike rack won, suffering minimal damage while somehow ripping up our car to the tune of over $2,2oo and over a week in the body shop. We do have decent car insurance, but we are still out the $1k deductible. And after the catastrophe last …
We’ve somehow made to the end of 3rd Quarter, tracking every dollar we’ve spent this year (scroll to the bottom of the post for the total numbers)! A quick reminder: these spending reports are an effort to keep myself accountable to the idea that doctors do not have to spend a totally ridiculous amount of …
A quick reminder: these spending reports are an effort to keep myself accountable to the idea that doctors do not have to spend a totally ridiculous amount of money to live well and love life. We’re trying to do these spending reports for every month of 2018. As I have mentioned before, we do not …