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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.

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.

May 2022 – Another month goes by

May 2022 was a good month, but with many small expenses. We managed to save a large portion of our income.

April 2022 – A good month

April 2022 was a good month, with pleasant events with friends and family. The finances were great, with more than 70% of our income saved!

March 2022 – Splurging the bonus

In March 2022, we spent a lot of money from my bonus, but we still saved a record amount of money!

February 2022 – A good month

Here is everything that happened to us and our finances in February 2022! Our expenses, goals and saving rate!

How much we spent in 2021 – Full Expense Report

Here is exactly how much our family of three spent in 2021, everything included! Learn from our good categories and from our bad ones!

January 2022 – A poor start of the year

January 2022 was not a great month, with another contact with COVID, some illness, very poor nights and very little time.