In pictures, these are the two major activities I’ve been doing as of late:
(Took this photo when I was in Toronto a while back)
AND
Credit(You knew I had to sneak a little kitten photo in there.)
Also, I can’t stop watching this and laughing. It’s called: Makeup by Omar, where a boyfriend attempts to put on makeup on a beauty blogger:
APRIL = TAXES!!!!!
INCOME: $0
- Didn’t work this month at my full-time job.
- No blog or freelance writing income included. Negligible anyway.
- …actually it’s been a pretty slow and lazy month overall 🙂 Like me!
EXPENSES:
- Not listing business expenses any more — not working the whole year
- I don’t love paying taxes but I don’t hate it either.
Notes:
- Haven’t bought my tickets to travel to Asia yet.
- We are also going back to Europe for the summer.
NET WORTH = $187,798.02 or a -$16,053.87, a 7.87% decrease
Bye Bye $200k net worth. It was nice while it lasted for a month. 🙂
ASSETS
- Cash: $239.86
- Savings: $4961.85
- Emergency Fund: $124,269.17
- Retirement: $58,327.14
DEBTS
- None. And it is damn well gonna stay that way! 🙂
Notes:
- Taxes are part of the difference/drop in net worth
- Investments were up slightly
- Earning about $160 in interest each month on savings
- Holding a lot of liquid cash because we’re leaving
- Networth IQ keeps deleting my account so *shrug* I’m done with them
There. Done with the numbers.
FAVOURITE POSTS FOR APRIL 2011
- My favourite beauty products
- Overspending? Watch out for these triggers
- How people let money slip through their fingers
- Generational poverty: What is your motivation to save?
- Why do people at higher incomes have increased anxiety?
- Do poor people have a complex when they climb the social ladder?
- Do salaries plateau at the age of 40?
MY PLANS FOR THE YEAR
…are starting to shape up.
After our intense trip to Asia, we’re going to “relax” (HAH!) in Europe for the rest of the summer.
Going back to Portugal and visiting Spain as well (mmm paella!).
Maybe we can also swing by some other countries.
Then I think in late 2011 we’ll travel around the U.S., with my top 2 states being New York and California to visit. 🙂
RANDOM LINK LOVE & STUFF
Great reads around the web this month….
Each of them are really worth a scan at least!
FINANCE
- The financial exploitation of models (Jenna Sauers, former model)
- Extreme couponing: It’s really just organized hoarding
- Obsessed about money
- Words from the Wealthy
- Termites eat millions of rupees at a bank in India
- McDonald’s had 1 million applicants, and could only hire 62,000
- Time to wake up: The days of abundant but cheap resources are over
- The Dark Side of Gift Giving
OTHER
- How to overcome common sense
- On becoming a math whiz: Advice for new MIT students
- Kiki Kannibal: This is a must-read. It’s so scary and sad how kids can be bullied today
- Parents, don’t dress your girls like tramps
- The pyramids of Giza were originally white
- Google Docs app can now turn photos into documents like a scanner
- Computer opens grocery store without staff in New Zealand
- Grocery shopping in the wild: foraging for beginners
- Vegetarianism for omnivores
- Have fruit and veggies become less nutritious?
- Is sugar toxic?
- How to keep bread fresh
- How to care for your shoes
RANDOM PHOTO LOVE
Disney in real life
Jasmine from Aladdin
Little Red Riding Hood
See more Disney In Real Life here.
$23 Sushi Memo Pads from Tokyo, Japan
Is it odd that paper can make me this hungry?
Photoshop restorations of old photos
This is really some amazing display of skill and attention to detail in Photoshop.
Eminem
A Day at the Spa
Kind of sick humour but this was too good NOT to share.
Not sure if I could eat it though. 🙂
One man, 100,000 toothpicks and 35 years later, you get this:
Adorable Justice League
Atelier: Aled Lewis
Manhattan in 1609 versus now
Any favourite photos or links from above? 🙂
Just a girl trying to find a balance between being a Shopaholic and a Saver.
I cleared $60,000 in 18 months earning $65,000 gross/year.
Now I am self-employed, and you can read more about 
You should come to Louisiana while you’re in the states! Great food & culture, plus cost of living is pretty low =)
I want to try all the great food places I’ve seen on TV from Louisiana 🙂
Ooh, that’s lovely that you’re going back to Europe! Have a great time. I love the young Justice League!
I will 🙂 Thanks!
Love the pictures! I am looking forward to traveling in two months for three weeks. Yeah!!! Portugal sounds awesome. I forgot where you were going to in Asia? I kept my travelling down to Italy, Chicago, Florida and finish with the move to San Antonio.
I thought Canada’s taxes were like 50% of your income? I thought $16k was your taxes but it only represented your overall decrease in net worth.
We’re going to China and Singapore 🙂 It was going to be Japan too but
that’s out.
Canadian taxes are 50% of my income but I don’t take out everything I earn
every year. I pay dividend taxes mostly, and I can control how much I take
out each year as my “income” 🙂
No the $16k is not my taxes. I paid much more than that but my investments
went up to counter some of the payment.
Thanks for the link 🙂
I LOVED the video of the boyfriend doing the makeup. That was absolutely hilarious!
I want Omar to do MORE videos 🙂
Heh! The “A day at Spa” – I don’t think I’ll eat it, but it’s crazy how they can do that with food! Ooo and the Atelier: Aled Lewis… poor bunnies
It makes me not want to eat it, it’s so damn cute.
Thanks for a very interesting post! I like the look of your emergency fund balance 🙂 And I wish my expense report was as low as yours! And a year of travel ~ fun fun fun. Hope you have a good time and can report on your adventures.
That EF definitely lets me sleep easy at night. That, and my expenses…
Back to Portugal? Tell me more 🙂
We’re going there for about a month to hang out. Can’t get enough of the
food and air 🙂
The Justice League picture is so adorable! Your expense looks really nice and low for April. I guess the huge net worth drop is due to tax?
Are all your emergency fund in cash? That’s a lot of cash to have. How come you don’t put some in investment since you already have a cash category?
April is surprisingly low! May will be high, I’m paying for the trip to
Asia, about a $6000 drop.
The net worth drop is definitely due to tax. I paid more than $16,000 in
taxes but my investment increases made up the difference.
I have all my EF in cash because we’re leaving Canada in a few months. I
don’t want to lock in my money into anything 🙂
I hope you have fun on your trip(s)! They sound so exciting.
Thank you! I’ll post pictures, I promise 🙂
I don’t know why, but I always love reading these kind of posts! And your emergency fund… one word… JEALOUS!
Thank you!!