Came to the U.S. and feel like I can’t save enough
I came here recently and got my greencard last August. It took me a bit to get my first full time job, I started working in march. In the time between August and March I did some marketing consulting for local businesses and it went pretty decent.
Now in April, we already closed on our house. My wife and I make around $8.5k monthly after taxes and I get around $1k from retainer business through the marketing agency. I feel like we never really spent much money before, but now since April our monthly expenses sit between 6-8k. This includes mortgage, student debt of $1k and all other expenses like gas, groceries, dog daycare etc. I track every expense at the moment.
It’s beginning to stress me out because I feel like I’m not moving forward with the $ in my bank account. Besides waiting for salary increases, do you have any ideas on what I could do to make some money?