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Category: Updates

Reports of our expenses, earnings, and net worth. You’ll find the evolution of our savings rate, what went well, what didn’t well, month by month. The goal is to share everything, with 100% transparency. You will also find some information about our travels. Follow my path to Financial Independence.

February 2023 – Expensive

In February 2023, we saved slightly less than our goal, because of some large extraordinary expenses, low taxes and high income .

How much we spent in 2022 – Full Expense Report

Here is exactly how much our family of three spent in 2022, everything included! Learn from our good categories and from our bad ones!

January 2023 – A good start of the year

January 2023 was a good standard month to start the year. It was quiet, which is what we needed. And financially, it was quite good.

2023 Goals and 2022 Goals Review

Our 2023 goals are ready for the new year and we are reviewing our 2022 goals as well. Come see what we plan for 2023.

December 2022 – Glad it is over

December 2022 was a bad month overall for several reasons, but it was financially okay financially with a decent savings rate.

November 2022 – A normal month?

November 2022 turned out to be more expensive than expected, with large health bills and a food budget out of control! Find out what happened!

October 2022 – A weird month

October 2022 was mixed month, with many days being sick, large expenses, short nights, a nice trips, few nice events, ...

Fifth year of blogging – Summary

The blog is now five years old! Here is a summary of this fifth with French translation and decreasing traffic!

September 2022 – An eventful and expensive month

September 2022 was eventful, tiring and expensive. There was one major event for our son and several minor events, skyrocketing our expenses.

August 2022 Update – An expensive month

August 2022 was a very tiring yet good month. We spent significantly more than usual and had to organize many things.

July 2022 -Another hot month

July 2022 was a pretty standard month, although very hot. We saved half of our income and had a good time overall!

June 2022 – Taxes and heat

In June 2022, we could not save any money because we had to pay a ton of taxes and notary fees.