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June 2015 Money Puddle and Spending Report

July 10th, 2015 | 8 Comments

June 2015 Money Puddle and Spending Report

This month was pretty weird for us personally because of Kyle’s agonizing decision, but fairly straightforward financially. We kept within our budgeted spending for our monthly categories, but then we had a bunch of irregular expenses as well. They didn’t add up to much until the very end of the month! I thought we were going to come in reasonably under budget, but… you’ll see.   Money Puddle   Our money puddle represents our gross income from May, less taxes, … Read entire article »

Filed under: month in review

Celebratory Spending

May 26th, 2014 | 35 Comments

Celebratory Spending

The main reason I’ve been absent from EPF and the blogosphere generally is that Kyle defended his PhD last week!  You may now address him as Dr. Kyle.  (Not that kind of doctor.)  (Just kidding.  We can all call him Kyle after just this one post.)   Dr. Kyle has been working toward this moment for nearly seven years.  It’s just staggering all that went into this accomplishment.  I can’t even tell you.  I’m so proud of … Read entire article »

Filed under: grad school, spending