These are my Monthly Expenses – October 2022!
Why track your monthly expenses?
Because budgeting and planning are important for your financial well-being! Learning how to manage your finances and living within and below your means is an essential component to achieving financial independence.
The key to building wealth is to spend less than you earn and wisely invest the difference.
Over the past 5 years, I have managed to save over 50% of my income each month.
More money saved means more money to invest. Using the model of dividend growth investing, I am on course to achieving financial independence.
The results have been amazing!
Over the years, I have built a six-figure portfolio that generates dividend income each month. I am currently making over $1,000 in passive income each month while I sleep.
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October 2022 – Monthly Expenses
So here is October 2022’s expenses:
- Rent: $614.34
- Utilities
- Electric: $101.73
- Gas: $26.54
- Internet: $79.99
- Cell Phone: $35.00
- Food & Supplies: $382.96
- Miscellaneous
- Healthcare: $34.20
- Haircut: $35.00
All in all, my expenses for October 2022 totaled: $1,309.76
In October, I pay the electric bill for September (which includes the last weeks of Summer).
This is the end of my high electric bills as I haven’t used the air conditioner once since then.
Food and supply expenses where higher last month as I do all my food shopping on Sunday and October had 5 Sundays.
Other then that, all was as expected in October.
Dividends vs. Monthly Expenses
I also like to compare my monthly expenses with my dividend income. Once passive income is greater than living expenses, then financial independence is achieved!
Now let’s compare my monthly expenses to my dividend income.
I will compare my expenses to my October 2022 dividends and my average yearly dividend income going forward. As of this post, my portfolio is set to generate $13,532 in dividend income over the next 12 months.
October 2022 dividend income: $819.73 = 62.6% of my expenses covered in October.
Average yearly dividend income: $1,127.73 per month = 86.1% of my expenses covered in October.
Conclusion
Thus, this concludes my monthly expenses for October 2022!
I am getting closer and closer to covering all my expenses. Financial independence is obtainable in the next 18 months, but I won’t stop there at the bare minimal.
I will continue work towards my goals and build my dividend dynasty!
So, how about the rest of you? Do you track your monthly expenses? Also, how close are you to covering expenses via passive income?
Let me know in the comments below!
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