Well focusing on my health also helped financially as June seems to consists of working, dieting and exercising and not much else. And since I already paid for a full year subscription for the swimming pool I didn’t spend much on either!
Income: 1 834,53 eur
Expenses: 1 335,90 eur
Savings: 734,53
Income was a bit lower because of the difference how holiday money works if you work interim or fix contract. It’s a boring and very complex subject so I will not bother you with the explication. I actually forgot about it until a few days before I got paid. Then thought I would only get a few 100 euro in holiday money and then when paid I realized I actually got a few 100 euro’s less! Disappointed!! But it is what it is and completely out of my control.
on the bright side, spending was also low so I actually still ended up with a very nice savings amount!
Expenses are low because I hardly bought anything. 1 100 euro went to the joint account and then, well almost nothing! The usual stuff like gas for the Vespa and my cell phone bill. Gifts for mother day and the upcoming birthday of a friend and a new ID-card which cost me 24 euro to get. Like I said, working, dieting and exercising and not much else. But working is going pretty good (even if insanely busy) and I enjoy the exercise so I am actually feeling pretty fine! It just goes to show you do not need to spend a lot of money to feel happy.
May was actually the second lowest spending month for me personally. The lowest month? May 2017! I guess May is a cheap month for us.
I did shift some diet purchases to the joint account. Frankly because my girlfriend insisted on it since she was starting to feel pretty guilty with the grocery spending being 95% for her alone. But this had a very small impact as in the joint account May was actually our least expensive month since I started keeping a detailed budget! Burning fat saves money!!
have you tried to have a small vegetable garden? my last weeks I didn’t buy anymore the green salads 🙂 and I hope the “limaces” will not eat all the green beans to harvest in the closed future 😀 . These are great for diet + budget: work in the garden and eat just a salad, (joooooking) 🙂
You should see our
garden, ahum, jungle. I despise gardening so much that I do not even harvest the cherries or apples from our orchard but just let them fall on the ground for the pigs to eat. You people really keep underestimating the levels of my laziness …