Last month was a pretty special month as the Mrs and I actually spent 2 weeks together almost 24/7. She was enjoying her sabbatical and I had 2 weeks of protected school holidays. And quite interestingly, our expenses came down to a very manageable $3,500. Moral of the story? Staying at home watching DVDs and playing games is really quite low maintenance. Not surprisingly. Ooops… So with June’s expenditure in, this brings our estimated total expenditure for the first half of the year to $23,500.  That’s pretty satisfactory in my opinion and can be considered rather low (especially with the inclusion of the mortgage of a 5 room flat) for two young adults. Coupled with passive income that’s coming close to $1,000 a month, this probably reinforces my belief that both of us are at a stage where we could take some risks with our employment choices. The Mrs is likely to ......