October 2016 Budget Roundup = $496,317.37 or a decrease of $11,983.85 or -2.41%
MY BOOK IS ALMOST READY FOR SALE
Thank you all for voting on the book cover. I’m going with the majority, and I loved your feedback and suggestions.
This is my new book cover by (pretty much) overwhelming consensus:
..now I just need to finish everything else — publish it, review it one last time & then get it on the market.
I’m aiming for the end of this month!
Stay tuned….
HOW DAYCARE & FEEDING ARE IN FRANCE VERSUS CANADA
My guest post is up over at Distant Francophile: How different things are in France where I recount a conversation with my partner about the care and feeding of Baby Bun 😉
INCOME = $0
None. I’m not recording any blog income here, even though I do make about $1000 a month off the blog.
I’m paying myself back for all the money I sunk into the blog thus far for the change in the design etc. It is FINALLY getting paid back. I should be done the debt to myself in May 2017.
Also, know what sucks? I am not going to work until next year. I have to take advantage of this time that I am guaranteed off.
CUE LOTS OF BAKING & COOKING! 😀
(And book writing).
EXPENSES = $6931.46
Stupid Welcome Tax.
Stupid Stress making me eat and shop.
TOP 5 EXPENSES
I am so pleased that my housing expenses are SO LOW.
LOOK AT IT!
Below $500 a month!
It’s really more like $500 a month because taxes are paid yearly, not monthly, but still…
I really do think I made the right choice paying for my place in cash.
NET WORTH = $496,317.37 or a decrease of $11,983.85 or -2.41%
PAST 12 MONTHS
BABY BUN’S NET WORTH = $15,294.94 or an increase of $537.85 or 3.64%
Baby Bun is just killing it. I love seeing his net worth snap up the graph!
10 Comments
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Irene
I think there’s something going on with your site… when you click on a blog post it doesn’t show you the full text. The “read more” links don’t seem to be working properly. It’s only on mobiles though
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Sense
What on earth is a ‘Welcome Tax?’ Seems quite unwelcome to me…
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save. spend. splurge.
We are being sarcastic calling it a “Welcome Tax”, as in “welcome to home ownership”… you get dinged with it every time you buy a place as a homeowner, and it is a specific thing to Montreal (Quebec???). I have never heard of it anywhere else.
They just like to screw you out of your money.
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SP
We had that – a “transfer tax”, 1.5% split by the seller and buyer. WELCOME!
Good luck on the book launch!
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Ysabelle
Sounds like stamp duty in the UK 🙁
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