Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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I haven't been buying books for a while (for life reasons) but now I can, I want to spend my money in the best way without blowing the budget! So let's talk about book buying budgets, plans, and decisions and go through my bookshelves / tbr to work out what my book buying priorities are :)
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:16 Budgeting
4:15 TBR
10:01 Bookshelf Review
46:04 Spreadsheet Reality
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