Bills bills BILLS

[rebeccmeister]

Ugh, why is January so expensive??

Don't answer that. :^)

I knew a lot of these expenses were coming up. Still, it's a lot, watching all the money drain straight out of my bank account.

I'm hoping to make some time to scrutinize utility costs soon. Not that I think there's a whole lot I can change, just...I like to have a sense of the trends.

I'm going to need to do a fair bit of advance financial planning this year, just because of summer research travel plans and other travel plans and a couple of expensive academic conferences. In general that means I'm going to sink less money into coached rowing, and need to just buckle up and get exercise on my own. I can do that, I just have to make myself do it.

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[threemeninaboat]

Groceries for the week were $300 on Sunday! (dog tick treatment was on clearance so I bought 2 years worth: saves $100 in the long run), and there was really good tea).

The downstairs toilet broke, I have no idea the running total on that so far. $1k? and it's not even fixed yet.

[soemand]

Ugh, why is January so expensive?? Don't answer that. :^)

A thing I did a few weeks ago was to attempt to negotiate a lower price for a few of my services, like cellphone and internet. Used a template I generated using copilot to ask for a lower price using the providers chat; and managed to drop my spend by 60$ per month.

It took an hour, and the effort paid for itself already.