{"id":3632,"date":"2021-01-03T19:46:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T00:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2021-04-21T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T13:06:00","slug":"new-years-life-expenditures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=3632","title":{"rendered":"New Year’s, Life, Expenditures"},"content":{"rendered":"

life’s<\/a> photo journal and stats have been updated. The 594 photos this four-month period is the lowest for any four-month period since April 2002, my Freshman year of high school (when I wasn’t carrying my camera around regularly), and is lower than the previous four months this year by 9 photos.<\/p>\n

None of this should be too surprising, given we’ve basically been at home since March and the extent of our real-life social contact has been either brief tea-and-conversation hangouts on the porch, or walks.<\/p>\n

In any case, work starts up again tomorrow, and it was a nice break, all things considered. Christmas featured a group Google Meet call, New Year’s featured online board games and virtual champagne toasting, and I hit all of my (honestly, fairly lofty) personal project goals for the break.<\/p>\n

Since it’s January, I also compared 2020’s overall expenses to 2019’s. Thanks to the pandemic, my overall spending is down 22 percent, mostly in food (much more cooking at home; down 34%), travel (we had one vacation which involved a car rental and cabin instead of flying and hotels; down 98%), and entertainment expenses (we didn’t host any games or events and didn’t go anywhere with people; down 72%).<\/p>\n

The only thing keeping the overall year-to-year drop from being less extreme was that our mortgage payments and utilities went up a bit, and account for most of my spending (70% of my [lowered] yearly expenditures this year, compared to 49% of last year’s). Like last year, the next biggest expense was food (relatively stable at 15% of yearly expenditures this year, compared to 17% last year).<\/p>\n

Anyway. Things are uneventful. Here’s hoping the vaccine distribution really picks up this year and we can start seeing people again in the first half of the year.<\/p>\n

Hope everyone’s doing well out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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