Money Diaries: October 2024
We are back on another episode of Money Diaries! If you would like to check out previous Money Diaries, please click here. I am not happy with my spending in October so with a cup of tea on hand, let’s open our spending tracker app and deep dive into my “wtf were you thinking?!” expenses.
A bit of introduction…
I am a stay-at-home-wife with two preschoolers in school. I do have some freelance jobs here and there but fixed expenses are all paid by my husband. The only payments getting pulled out of my accounts every month are 1. RM3.90 iCloud subscription, 2. RM24.90 Spotify Family plan, and 3. RM4.90 food subscription service (I get free deliveries/vouchers etc).
Week of Oct 1 – 6
- RM89.25 – treated my mom and brother to Wong Solo lunch
- RM 4.50 – Jom Kopi iced milk tea
- RM7.00 – high protein flour and yeast to make focaccia bread
- RM221.50 – clothes for my kids*
- RM89.40 – books (Shatter Me and Powerless)
- RM41.00 – new lipsticks from the drugstore
- RM34.00 – Judy Doll Iron Mascara
* reimbursed by my husband
Total = RM265.15
Week of Oct 7 – 13
- RM13.10 – Subway for breakfast
- RM19.50 – Emart for lunch*
- RM16.41 – OldTown for lunch*
- RM49.14 – Buke Notebook journal
- RM10.40 – Peach tea at The Chicken Rice Shop (they forgot to charge me when I came a few weeks before, so I came back to pay)
- RM44.99 – House of Hur glowy ampoule tint for my mom and sister
- RM19.31 – Kopi Saigon (Vietnamese coffee)
*reimbursed by my husband
Total = RM136.94
Week of Oct 14 -20
- RM8.30 – Burger King for breakfast (my order got swapped with someone else’s so I got partial refund)
- RM160.00 – WordPress hosting and domain renewed for another year!
- RM20.60 – Emart for lunch
- RM109.21 – a new blog theme from November Dahlia on Etsy
- RM21.20 – lunch from Balado Etc
- RM18.98 – Zus Coffee
- RM20.24 – lunch from OldTown
Total = RM358.53
Week of Oct 21 – 27
- RM13.23 – lunch from Mohd Chan Express (I got partial refund from uncooked shumai)
- RM19.50 – lunch from Emart
- RM25.20 – pregnancy tests (I had a pregnancy scare ahah all is good I’m not pregnant)*
- RM17.92 – Zus Coffee
- RM16.07 – OldTown for lunch
*reimbursed by my husband
Total = RM66.72
Week of Oct 28 – 31
- RM15.74 – chicken and rice lunch
- RM21.99 – Zus Coffee
- RM28.50 – dinner*
- RM100.70 – new underwear*
- RM25.50 – Auntie Anne’s pretzels*
- RM70.00 – KFC for dinner at my mom’s*
*reimbursed by my husband
Total = RM37.73
My expenditure this month was quite high due to my blog hosting and domain renewal, on top of that I got a new blog theme and those two costed me around RM270.00. My food delivery addiction needs to stop. It’s costing me a lot and those monies could be put towards something else. Disappointed with myself but not at all surprised. Tsk. I hope this month I can manage my money well and it’s time to uninstall food apps thank you very much.
