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Christmas 2015: Yes, I survived budgeting!


I survived the Christmas holiday! There's many presents, food and err godchildren. Haha. The good thing is I stayed on my target budget so no cray, cray moments for me. Here's the breakdown of my spending that day:

Christmas Food Amount
Bread 45
Onions + Baguio Beans 40
Fish 85
Breast Chicken Half Kilo 70
Spring Onions + Sili 14
Lumpia Wrapper 40
Carrots + Repolyo 48
Canton 60
Jeepney Fare Back & Forth the Wet Market 30
Ham FREE
Cheese Ball FREE
Novellino White Wine FREE
Desserts (Toblerone, Twinkies, Snickers) FREE
Total: 432

Those items labeled as free are either Christmas gift from the office or goodies from friends. Some of the dishes we prepared are stir fry noodles commonly known as pancit, ham, cheese sticks, fish soup for my dad and bread.

Too bad I didn't take a picture of it because I was too hungry munching the goodies. Haha. We only prepare a few dishes during Christmas day because most of my immediate relatives are all based in Cebu.

For my 11 Godchildren plus extras (yung mga hindi ko inaanak), I only spend about 2,172 pesos for gifts and monetary giveaways! I can say that advance planning pretty early help me to achieve this goal. Hehe.

What about you? How did you spend your Christmas day this year 2015? Share your stories at the comment section below. I want to read them!

Photo Credits: Pixabay.com, Canva.com

Life lately: December 2015


Hello, viewers and readers of my blog! Yes, I'm still alive and kicking. I became silent here because I needed to handle important stuff like getting our Meralco residential connection done. Luckily, we are in the final phase and hopefully, this Saturday we will have an electricity of our own. I'll blog about my experiences and the process of getting a Meralco residential connection here in my page so stay tuned for that. I will also include how much did I spend and the stress it cost me processing papers for wiring permit at the City Hall. Haha.

I haven't received my 13th-month pay yet, which is a good thing because I will not buy things that I don't need. Especially right now that there's a lot of holiday sale at the mall. Oh, it is so tempting to buy a beautiful dress and make-up but I still have new clothes and lipsticks that I didn't use so I must control the shopping hormones in me! Haha. I heard at the office that our 13-month will be credited to our account tomorrow. So that's hooray!


I'm still experiencing a paper loss right now in the stock market. Out of 7 stocks that I've bought.  Two of them are in green while the other five are in red. I'm still hoping that the latter will eventually turn into green. I'll cross my fingers for that to come true so that I can gain more. So yeah, that's the reason of no new entry posted here. And before I forget, I want to greet all of you an advance Merry Christmas!

What about you? How do you cope up with the Christmas rush lately? What did you buy on your 13-month pay? Share your stories at the comment section below.

Photo Credits: Canva.com, COLFinancial, Pixabay.com - condesign
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