A round up of our costs for living in Sayulita for the last month.
Our takeout bill is on the rise but with so many good restaurants in Sayulita offering delivery it would have bee rude not to, right? Restaurants can open as of today (June 1st) but have to maintain a maximum 30% occupancy so we are looking forward to getting out and actually eating inside a restaurant again.
Even with the increase in takeout, we managed to spend slightly less than in May by figuring out the best places to get our groceries cutting our Netflix subscription and reducing our accommodation cost slightly by renting directly to save on the Airbnb fees and the peso weakening against the USD
We are expecting in June our food and accommodation bill will increase as we’ll be moving house and maybe even the city halfway through the month so it will be interesting to see how that goes.
We are also working on a new business/social enterprise (more on that later) so have included business expenses in this month’s report.
A full breakdown of income and expenses is below.
| Expenses | |
| Rent | $330.00 |
| Cellphone | $8.00 |
| Groceries | $221.86 |
| Eating Out | $193.00 |
| Alcohol | $106.00 |
| Toiletries & Medication | $34.00 |
| Laundry | $32.42 |
| Shopping | $45.00 |
| Subscriptions (Spotify, Gym, Apple) | $40.00 |
| Laptop Repayments | $91.00 |
| Courier Tax Return | $33.00 |
| Business Expenses (Domain Fees, GSuite, Hosting etc.) | $72.78 |
| Total expenses | $1,207.06 |
| Income | $4,019.00 |
| Saved | $2,811.94 |
Our income comes from teaching English online, freelance Shopify development work, and Zahn’s remote job in New Zealand.
