I posted here at this time last year. Curious to see if anybody was able to keep track using my method. Here’s my yearly expenses summary. I included ALL my expenses, and strive to have more overall “no buy days”. It “looks” like I made decent progress. But it actually wasn’t the case.

For a few different reasons, I decided to travel to Europe for 45 days after working all summer. 💸💸💸💸

Uggh. All the progress negated by a rather short-sighted decision, and many headaches upon my return. I was ~kinda~ hoping to have a few “No spend” days in Europe. For many different reasons, that proved impossible. I opted to just keep my overall spending as low as possible, but not so low as to impede my travel experience. I was also hoping to resume work asap after returning. Didn’t happen. Now I’m paying CC interest up the wazoo.

Thankfully I start work January 2. My year-over-year expenses totals are a complete trainwreck. I’m still glad I kept track though, it could’ve been a even bigger disaster. Here’s to a better 2023.

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