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Year in Review: 2020

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Huz­zah! We are done with 2020! What a huge relief. In some ways, 2020 was a great year for me. It was also simul­ta­ne­ous­ly a hor­ri­bly wretched year at the exact same time. The first few months of the year were off to a fan­tas­tic start. I start­ed get­ting set­tled into St Louis, was meet­ing new peo­ple to hope­ful­ly start […]

Monthly Status Report December 2020

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Dis­claimer: some links may be affil­i­ate links. They help off­set the cost of keep­ing this blog run­ning! Why do I do a month­ly sta­tus report? I find it best to do a month­ly sta­tus report for a few rea­sons. It helps me eval­u­ate how I did the pre­vi­ous month. Did I hit a tar­get reduc­tion in spend­ing or did I go way over bud­get for […]

Best Buys of 2020

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As I com­pile all of my finan­cial stats for this weird and messed up year, I find myself rem­i­nisc­ing on some of the best pur­chas­es I made in 2020. Now, best is sub­jec­tive. Was it the best deal? Was it the pur­chase that pro­vid­ed the most joy? The one that proved most use­ful? In this case, best is […]

Monthly Status Report: November 2020

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Dis­claimer: some links may be affil­i­ate links. They help off­set the cost of keep­ing this blog run­ning! Why do I do a month­ly sta­tus report? I find it best to do a month­ly sta­tus report for a few rea­sons. It helps me eval­u­ate how I did the pre­vi­ous month. Did I hit a tar­get reduc­tion in spend­ing or did I go way over bud­get for […]

Giving Thanks 2020

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Writ­ten on Thanks­giv­ing Day and pub­lished after­wards due to me get­ting dis­tract­ed by my Gantt chart time­line for cook­ing Thanks­giv­ing din­ner. Before you laugh, it worked like a charm! I think I can safe­ly say this year has been awful for pret­ty much every­one for one rea­son or anoth­er. It’s incred­i­bly easy to talk about all the […]