What I Spent In 2023
Happy New Year – 2023 is in the books and it’s time for my annual spending post. I did my first spending post for the year 2020 and it was almost entirely done out of curiosity due to covid. I...
Happy New Year – 2023 is in the books and it’s time for my annual spending post. I did my first spending post for the year 2020 and it was almost entirely done out of curiosity due to covid. I...
If you missed the news Americans just passed a milestone. In the second quarter of 2023 Americans have $1.03 trillion in credit card debt, the first time this number has been passed. Credit card debt now joins student loan debt...
Happy New Year – 2022 is in the books and it’s time for my annual spending post. I’ve never budgeted in my life, so when I did my first spending post for the year 2020 it was almost entirely done...
I’m going to be taking it a bit easy on the blog this holiday season but I still plan to post most weeks. Today I wanted to do a short post on an interesting graphic I stumbled across. I found...
In 2020 when covid took off it launched an unprecedented bike boom. Millions of people who hadn’t ridden a bike since they were a kid looked to get one, or pulled their long forgotten old clunker out of the garage...
We’ve all heard the axiom that you should spend money based on your values in life, and not so much on the rest. I was reminded of this the other day while putting my mountain bike in the back of...
When it comes to being a consumer of goods and services, I’m not a very demanding person. I won’t allow a company to take advantage of me, but I’m also not the person sending back my entrée at a restaurant...
Two articles came to my attention recently about consumer spending and sentiment. Both articles paint a picture of tightening and changing consumer behaviors due to inflation and other economic factors. Call me a skeptic. And it doesn’t take much searching...
Back in the summer of 2018 I did a mapping post showing the costs of the big three expenses by state in America. It was one of my most popular posts for a good year or two until it started...
Oil prices have soared in recent weeks putting gas prices at near record highs in the U.S. America is a very car-obsessed and car-dependent country so gas prices are what’s in the news. But don’t think that rising oil prices...
Another year done and dusted, and that means another spending report. Although I’ve been blogging for over 4 years now, this is only my second annual spending report. I did one for 2020 because I was curious about my lower...
Stuff. We all buy it and need it. In a post a few years back I laid out my three rules of stuff, coming from a frugal and financially independent mindset. And recently I posted about maximizers and satisficers and...
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