Hi everyone,
I haven’t written this newsletter in a while. For the past three months, Handrio and I have been on the road. We drove from Texas to New York to stay with my parents, and then went back and forth between NYC and Boston looking for an apartment and job. We never stayed in the one city for longer than a week at a time.
Once we finally moved in, I started my new job and spent my weekends cleaning the apartment, since it was filthy. We pay $1,750 for rent and the property management company couldn’t even spend $200 on cleaning service. I felt upset because I spent three weekends cleaning shit (literally, mouse poop)!
Okay, I’m done complaining about this issue now. I’m not upset anymore because it’s clean now, thanks to me and Handrio, and that’s all that matters at this point.
With so much change, it has been difficult for me to sit down and write. But starting today, I will be resuming my bi-monthly newsletter, as I’ve created a new routine. I might even write weekly, depending on my schedule.
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Today, I want to share with you indirect expenses when moving. These are expenses that don’t even come to mind at first but hear me out because I did not think about these beforehand. A few newsletters ago, I shared our moving budget, which included transportation and first-month expenses. We saved $6,000 for this move, which we thought would be enough, but we were approximately $1,500 short in the end.
