Due to the Australia trip and all it's problems. Around $1,300 for my ticket, extension accommodation, insurance and visa.
Basic food expenses in Singapore was $290.95.
Mainly my wife's lunch at work and a day or 2 of eating out.
$103 came from a hotel buffet we went to early in the month at W Hotel at Sentosa.
This is already after 50% off.
Nothing much to talk about in the transport ($11.80) and healthcare ($24) area. Couple of 10s of dollars.
I went to KL early in the month we spent $120.60, a portion of this is covered by the company.
We went to Thailand for a short trip.
$127.25 for food and transportation. Flight and accommodation were settled in a previous month.
$50 for gifts, the usual snacks from Thailand for family, friends and colleagues.
$15 for 2 blouses for my wife.
An additional $26 in gifts, cos I bought my parents a dinner recently.
If I remove all of my wife's work related expenses... KL, Australia, Blouse, car...
Then our monthly expense would drop to $1,202.66.
I flipped through my past few months' expenses, mainly the bulk of my expenses come about when I travel with my wife for her biz trips, or when we travel for leisure. The costs of the tickets and eating overseas and probably some extension of the trip for our own leisure take up a large chunk of our expenses.
If I look at just my fixed expenses $672.66 and my basic expenses, I think I can quite comfortably keep total expenses under $1,000 per month on average.
But then again, that probably won't be a life worth living. Cos I'd give up on so many other experiences.
And here comes the next challenge. How do I live a life of rich experiences WITHOUT spending even more money? Spending money is easy. The challenge is HOW to do as much as possible without spending money. Just cos the answer isn't always obviously apparent, doesn't mean the answer doesn't exist. And the quest is to slowly search for the answer, by talking to people, exploring new ideas, being open to other lifestyles.
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