The month became much, much more expensive than what I had expected. My bicycle broke down so badly that I was forced to buy a new one. I took the stupid decision of ordering a bicycle online. Big mistake! The bicycle had so many faults with it that the day after I made a cancelation of the buy due to faulty goods. The company, no phone number existed to call, only had an email address and when I sent my complaints to that company email it bounced back without being delivered. I then went to my bank to block the credit card payment and now I am stuck within the decision process of my bank and in the meantime I was sitting on a useless bicycle and 320 € less.
Still... I needed to have a bicycle to go to work so I bought a second one for 280 € but this one I tested in the store before buying so the slightly more clever approach of buying a bicycle. I am very happy with this one and to decrease the interest of people to steal it I made some ugly paintings on it with indoor paint. This means that it looks ugly right now but once the bicycle start to look used the paint will also have disappeared and in this way there should theoretically never be an interest in stealing it. Fingers crossed.
I also realised that I had to make a service and safety control of my car which brought me down an additional 321 €. There are no rules about service of cars in Germany but the safety control is a must every second year. When you have bought a new car you can wait three years until having the first control. It is exactly the same in France but in Sweden one have to make this check each year.
So... it was a pretty bad month considering that I lost a block of investment (~1,000 €) on expenses that I was not really prepared for. Good that I always keep a buffer though so that these kind of things never become a real problem and is only slightly annoying.
How did then the investment work out?
