Category: Spend Recap

  • 2025 Spending Recap: Big Changes Are Afoot

    I’m back by popular demand with my spend analysis for 2025! This year had a few improvements like using the Other category exclusively for MS and using Gemini to do some tedious work like tally up all of my Venmo transactions and gather which cards were used most in each category. Thanks AI! If you […]

  • 2024 Spending Recap: Same Same But Different

    Another year, another spend analysis time! Year over year I make iterations to how I track things. Small improvements, new metrics, better tracking etc. Some improvements include using RocketMoney to get my spend on my Future card (previous done manually) Well break down YoY, see how my cash back is progressing and even look at […]

  • 2023 Spending Recap: New Year, Not Much Has Changed

    As we rang in the New Year (well we did it over a month ago but still), I’ve been working on my 2023 spend recap. A tradition I started in 2021 and am trying to keep alive, below will be a discussion of how my spend of the year worked out in terms of categories, […]

  • 2022 Spending Recap: I Spent Too Much Money

    9/23/2023 – Reposting here as simple finance blog is gone In 2019 I started my beginnings of budget tracking at the end of the year. I was getting into the CC game and was curious, how much did I actually spend? Well, fast forward to 2023 and I have graduated college and am living on […]