I've missed a couple of posts this week, I've been out of town again for 3 days to Jarkarta.
Expense update for last month was pretty much similar for basic expenses.
Food and transport didn't change much.
Food was slightly higher than normal cos my wife went out to eat with her colleagues more last month.
Some light household expense, $24.90, I forgot what it was for.
As usual the main expense is the business trips which I follow my wife on.
We have another Paris trip coming up and we are extending the trip to go Amsterdam for a couple of days.
So the flight and insurance and transportation from Paris to Amsterdam is $1,678.
That's excluding the hotel in Amsterdam and food. Which will show up in Oct expense update.
A fairly cheap flight to Jarkarta, which I just came back from $82.
And some food in KL early last month, $91, a portion of this is covered by the company.
Gifts were expensive this month. $156.90.
The main bulk of the gift was $95, for mooncakes to gift to our parents and grandparents.
We bought our mooncakes from KL, it's a lot cheaper. 5 boxes of mooncakes for less than S$100.
Otherwise, we would need to spend over double the amount if we bought them in Singapore.
The other $61.90 in gifts are due to buying friend lunches, baby shower, etc.
I had around $100 in car expenses which I didn't put as any spending, cos it has already been budgeted into the $1,200 monthly that I allocate for my vehicle.
Expenses are as expected. Nothing too big, if we remove all the business trips.
The plus part of business trips is that we tend to take it as an opportunity to extend and go places where we would probably never plan to go on a normal basis as it is usually too expensive.
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