Already Spent More Than My Bonus, and It’s Only the Beginning of September

It’s definitely been a while! I guess I’ve fizzled out / got over blogging this year, but perhaps I’ve just been super busy with work. The summer has been quite expensive. If I do get my “anticipated” bonus this year-end, consider it spent and then some already. Some things that came up include –

Dental work – this doesn’t include the gum grafting that I’m supposed to get done next year. I need a couple teeth moved around for the grafting to be successful, so I just started Invisalign to make that happen! It’s only been a couple nights and it’s been such a chore, omg…
Car – the old car, it’s in the shop. $2K of repairs, not including the parts we bought beforehand.
Daughter’s trip – she got in the grade 8 DC trip for some time later in the school year. That’s another $4K right there!

There were some good parts over the past month or so, nothing like a fancy vacation or something cause I’m just a single income household. Some stuff below!

There you go… some updates from the past month! Not so exciting on my end… just going into debt, one major expense at a time. Will just need to try to not really shop much for myself until the end of the year and use the anticipated bonus (fingers crossed) to get close to a break even point. Bad timing / unanticipated expenses and Alo Yoga clothing really broke the bank!