We Bought A House! I actually won’t talk about it again here, as I already talked about it here. But it is my big update for March and very exciting. That said there isn’t an impact to our Net Worth yet as the closing date isn’t until end of May. Though it has actually already… Continue reading Net Worth Update – March 2021
We finally did it. And no, not the house in the picture – though it looks amazing. We finally had an offer accepted. We officially started house-shopping two months ago. We’d made 3 previous offers. The first house we offered on we offered $50K below the highest offer. On the second house we were $18K… Continue reading We Bought A Freaking House
Two days ago I wrote a post titled Life-Sucking Work. Yesterday, I received a somewhat unexpected raise and I’m happier than ever. Ha. I am very very happy about this raise. I received a 15% increase and have been at my job for just five months now. I was also given a promotion, but because… Continue reading I Got A Raise
If I haven’t made it obvious, I’m not a big fan of work. I don’t necessarily hate all work, but I hate how it takes my time. I hate how it makes me too tired to do much else during the week. I hate how it makes me feel. We had nearly nine months off… Continue reading Life-Sucking Work.
Yet again we did not buy a house. We made two offers in February. One was $28K over asking, the other was $75K over asking. Neither were accepted. Neither were even accepted as the back-up offers. Because of this, our cash balance remains high. That said, we did finally get our Questrade accounts up and… Continue reading Net Worth Update – Feb 2021
Apparently it’s not as easy to buy a home as I expected. I ignorantly thought that we’d see a house we could picture ourselves living in, present an offer to the seller, go back and forth with the seller over the price once or twice, sign some papers, and then bam, we’d have a house.… Continue reading It’s Not Easy To Buy A Home
I’ve officially been working from home for 3 full months now – yay, I passed probation! While being back to work mostly sucks, there are perks of being a fully remote employee. Clothing – Whenever I’ve started new jobs in the past, I’ve gone out and purchased new clothes – nothing excessive, I’m not one… Continue reading Observations on WFH Life
A bit more timely posting this one, considering I just posted December’s net worth post a week ago. January was a pretty uneventful month. Except for the fact that we put an offer on a house. However, it was rejected – because this market is stupid. We were one of 7 offers, we offered $10K… Continue reading Net Worth Update – Jan 2021
It feels shameful to admit it, but I want to own a house. I’ve read many of Millennial Revolutions anti-home-ownership posts to know better. I’m a big fan of theirs, and being from Canada I appreciate their knowledge of the Canadian housing market because it is tremendously different from the US market. I also highly… Continue reading I Want A House
I have not been motivated to write this post. I would think a year-end wrap-up post would be fun to write, but truthfully, I can’t do all the fun annual calculations I would normally want to do because our expenses were mixed between USD and CAD and I don’t have the patience for it. That… Continue reading Net Worth Update – Dec 2020
