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I totally missed calling this out in the last net worth update: we finally have more than $2MM in assets! We’ve been net worth millionaires since April 2023, but as our finances are totally commingled, that really just meant that we were individually half-millionaires. I’m trying to remember to celebrate the small wins as they
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This European summer vacation ended up being about $4,000 less than our prior year’s European summer vacation, in large part due to using miles/points to buy our plane tickets. This was partially offset by some unnecessary extra spending (including $200 thrown away on a non-refundable hotel when we switched our departure from Milan to Naples),
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I was on a roll this month! We revisited several recipes, but most of them have featured on this post during recent prior months, so I’ll skip them here. I went on a flurry of baking again, with great results – maybe relatedly, my weight is up since last month, so I will be curtailing
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August was a high spend month, thanks to buying a bunch of plane tickets to Japan and several other travel-related expenses, so thankfully it was also a high income month, being another stock vest month. Putting aside $10k for travel expenses and immediately consuming $9,300 of it was not the best feeling, but feels better
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Okay, I’ll admit, it’s a bit of a clickbait title, but I made a change to my retirement withholdings at the beginning of August, and while the change was carefully planned and thought about, it’s still occupying a lot of space in my mind. So I might as well write about it. Next year, I’m
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Italy! If only this blog existed when we went to Italy the first time, in 2023. That trip was my first time going to Europe, and my first trip out of North America as an adult. It was also the most exciting two weeks of my life, and I have spent each day with some
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New Recipes Ligurian braised rabbit – Okay, I’ll admit, I made this with chicken, both because I didn’t want to try to source rabbit and also because coming back from vacation and making my pickier youngest child eat rabbit seemed like a bad idea. This is a dish we ate in Genoa, at a restaurant
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Another European summer vacation in the books, where our investments grew more than we spent in the time we were away. This has happened in 2023, 2024, and now 2025, though we notably did not travel in 2022, when it may have been a different story. (Actually, looking at the graph of the S&P500 during
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As I write this from my European vacation (what a pretentious way to start a post), I’ll note that I don’t usually pay too much attention to the market when I’m traveling. However, two days ago I remembered to open Monarch and refresh our retirement account balances, and discovered that I was quite close to
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I did it! I finally did it. 810 days into my Duolingo streak, I finally finished the Duolingo Italian course. Working backwards on the math, it seems that I started this latest Duolingo quest back in March of 2023, a few months before we were scheduled to go on our very first trip to Italy.
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