Week 2: Sept 8-14, 2015 Budget: RM287.80 Actual: RM232.70 The last two weeks proved my suspicion correct – a budget of RM510 which included groceries was delusional at best. I know now that I made a bad miscalculation that didn’t include the increased cost of living, GST or the fact that I now live on …
Week 1: Sept 1-7, 2015 Budget: RM119 = RM17/day Actual: RM222.20 Living on RM17/day might have be far too optimistic. I forgot to add GST to the amount. Went waaaay over the weekly budget. I decided to go easy on myself the first week. By “going easy”, I was still recording every cent spent and making conscious …
Now seems like a good time to kick off No Spend Month, after a long hiatus from the blog and an even longer hiatus from the project. I guess I was pretty comfortable financially after my first attempt in 2010. I found something that worked and saw my savings crawl upwards. But it’s a new life …
For a long time, I’ve had a fascination with graveyards and have visited a few around Kuching, wondering about the people buried there and what their stories were. Old graveyards like St Joseph’s Cemetery or the small graveyard on the grounds of St Thomas’s Cathedral date back to the days of the Brooke administration, with …
Week 3: Sept 22-30, 2010 Budget: RM135 = RM15/day Actual: RM138.65 I need to point out that this is a 9-day ‘week’ because there’s two days leftover and I originally decided to take a break early in the week but decided that won’t be fair because the total funds allocated include all 30 days. The photo …
