A new year is almost here. If you’re already frugal and making good progress towards your long- and short-term goals, congratulations! If not, maybe you can make 2013 the year you start to get your finances under control. I’m not really a resolutions type of gal, at least not as far as new years resolutions… Continue Reading
The Evolution Of My Relationship With Money
Four years ago, the focus of my blog was money. I wrote about our efforts to earn it, save it, and pay down debt. I identified with the personal finance blogosphere, and was quite wrapped up in things like calculating our net worth, and making sure it was always higher than it had been the… Continue Reading
Keeping Track Of Our Spending
Recently I got an email from a long-time reader, asking me if we still keep track of our monthly expenses. I guess the answer is both yes and no. We do pay close attention to what we are spending, and I check our bank balances and credit card transactions on a daily basis. But we… Continue Reading
Diversify By Paying Down The Mortgage
As I mentioned yesterday, our stock-based retirement portfolio is looking a little rough around the edges these days (and I’m sure it’s even worse now than it was yesterday – but I’m not looking). Times like these are when I’m glad that we’re focusing on paying off our mortgage as quickly as possible, in addition… Continue Reading
Net Worth Update
Our networth rose to $90,772 this month, a $4000 increase since October. That’s mostly due to aggressive contributions to our HSA, along with a $1000 increase in our retirement funds. We also paid off some more money on our HELOC and our main mortgage. Our networth will take a hit over the… Continue Reading
Networth October 2007
I just finished updating our NetworthIQ profile, and although our net worth has increased, it’s been a bit hampered by the stock market. The last time I updated our numbers was August, and we’re up about $2000 since then. But our retirement accounts are actually worth less than they were in August, even… Continue Reading
Net Worth Update August 2007
I update our networth every two or three months, and I always do it right after we get our mortgage statement in the mail, so that I have an accurate debt amount. How nice that we got our statement yesterday, when the Feds lowered the interest rate and my IRA jumped nearly $1000…. Continue Reading
Stock Market Blahs
I just checked my IRA balance and it’s gone down by about $1000 in the last two weeks. What a bummer. I know I’m not alone, and I know I can’t even touch that money for 30 years, so it doesn’t really matter. But I think I’ll wait a few weeks to… Continue Reading
Net Worth Half Way Thru 2007
I just put our numbers into Networth IQ, and was pleasantly surprised. Our net worth has increased to $82,526. Last December, it was $68,813, and at the time, I set a goal for us to increase our net worth by $20,000 in 2007. It looks like we’ll easily reach that goal, since… Continue Reading
Net Worth in April 2007
I haven’t calculated our net worth for a few months, but I knew it was going in the right direction. Selling my ring and the gift from my parents helped a lot over the last couple months. Our net worth right now is $77,386. That’s about a $6500 increase since January, but it’s short of… Continue Reading