January is the month of unexpected expenses

This post was originally published on golifelog.com.

Well, at least that seems to be the case this year. Everything started out fine, I had my budget laid out and then, two weeks ago, shit started to go down a little bit.

At first, I detected some mould in my sleeping room and in the living room. I contacted a paramedic colleague which is also a construction worker. He had a quick look, and we nailed it down to some humidity condensation on the outer walls of the Flat. So a quick to the local DIY store, getting some anti mould stuff, sprayed it, and it was gone.

A few days later, the radiator in my bath tried to kill me by falling off the wall. Luckily, I wasn’t inside the bath at that time, but I couldn’t get through the door as I heard the rumbling. With a burnt hand, I managed to get the radiator upright again and kinda fixed it in place. I called my dad and a few days later we fixed it to the wall again and put some safety in so it couldn’t fall down as easily again. I’m relieved it didn’t leak, otherwise the damaged would have been huge.

Then, the tax on photovoltaic cells fell, so I grabbed my balcony power station at just below €500. Later that day I got the power bill indicating I have to pay another €325. If I had known about the power bill, I would have delayed the ordering of the PV stuff. Also on the same day, I got notice to pay import taxes on the Freewrite Alpha, I’ve ordered on Indiegogo. At least, that was only 50 bucks or so.

I hope February doesn’t hold more surprises for me.