January 2026
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Ah, another high spend year. This is my second year tracking our spending in u/BloomingFinances excellent spreadsheet, which makes writing up this report particularly easy. As I noted to a friend while writing up this post, each year I seem to look at our spending and say, “Wow! That’s a lot!” and then make almost…
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Awkward. Not only did I not make a new dish in December, despite professing that I would work some into the rotation, but I also didn’t take any pictures of the food I did make, other than this ciabatta that bubbled up nicely for some mortadella sandwiches we had. Maybe this month will be the…
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Well, it’s a new year, and while 2025 was apparently a great year for the stock market, it ended its last week on a slump. Being up 16% for the year obviously makes up for it, but overall, it hasn’t been a very relaxing year with the stock market, nor one in general, so it…
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