Last weeks read in my journey to figuring out what future freedom looks like was The Moneyless Man.
What a thought provoking read! I can confidently say that following the reading of the book I have no desire to live without money. However, it did prompt me to think about the conveniences that we spend money on.
We overhauled our spending at the beginning of this year knowing that we would have two children in private school and would probably need some extra pennies. So I considered myself to be a fairly frugal spender already.
However at the beginning of last week I decided to keep a diary of our household spending. Every single thing that we purchased, lunch when we forgot ours, the kids saying they had a shared lunch, a bottle of water here, sports drink while at Moto, coffee while at Moto, beers & wine. I was blown away by all the little extras that added up and mostly because I was disorganised. An extra 5 minutes in the morning to fill a water bottle or get lunch out of the fridge, fill the thermos would have saved us about $60. I justify this as a small amount but when you add it up over a year it is no longer a small amount.
So I have decided to continue the habit of tracking the small expenses and see if we can find some patterns and change some habits.
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