While I paid the air travel and AirB&B part of our Holiday in August, September was actually the month we went on Holiday. We stayed 10 days in the Algarve region of Portugal. So how much did we actually spend during this ‘holiday’ month? The numbers are below.

Income : 2 246 euro

Expenses : 1 7325,50 euro

Savings : 510,50 euro or 22,73%

Income

Income was my regular paycheck from work and a small anniversy gift . Income will remain around this level until I get a side gig of the ground. And since I want to build something of my own and not just work a few additional hours left and right, the side gig is going to take some time.

Sun and empty beaches!

Expenses

Yes! Back to positive savings numbers! And actually not bad for a month with a 10 day holiday abroad in it.

I had my fixed amount of 1 100 euro to deposit in our joint account to pay for boring stuff like our mortgage, utilities, food and such.

I also bought (my final, I promise it!) game on steam for 18 euro.

I did spend 70 euro on food during work days. I shouldn’t have because diet, but at the very least it is on a downward spiral. Not working for 2 weeks did help off course.

When shopping for some extra holdiay clothes for myself I saw a nice summer dress (for the girlfriend) which I bought her. We do not do the regular gifts for birthdays, new year and such but occasionaly we spot something we think our partner would like and then we buy it. In this case it was 50 euro well spend.

During the holiday I spend 490 euro. 50 euro was uber rides and the rest grocerie shopping, visiting restaurants and the ferry to a nearby island. I was on a holiday and didn’t really want to keep track of all my spending in detail so I just kept track of the cash I withdrew from the local ATM. I off course only withdrew two big amounts to limit withdrawal costs to a minimum. I do not mind spending money on a good meal (or a really big chocolat croissant) or leaving a nice tip. But even in a holiday mood I seem to hate paying banking fees.

This is not a croissant, this LE CROISSANT

In the name of full transparacy. I did forget to include my mobile phone subscription in the September expense report. But I am too lazy to go dig it up. So yeah, this report is off by 12 to 15 euro. If their is a battle between lazy and accurate, lazy is going to win each and every time. This is after all, Financial Freedom Sloth,