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Miami is not a cheap city. Miami-Dade is not a cheap county. Florida is, increasingly, not a cheap state, if the many headlines about areas with the fastest-growing real estate prices are any indication. So we went on this vacation looking to cut costs where we could, while still being able to enjoy what we…
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New Recipes Chimichurri – At our local farmers market, there’s a lady who shows up approximately twice a month and sells some really delicious fresh chimichurri. Unfortunately, since her attendance is so sporadic, we often run out of chimchurri in the interim. This past month, we went on a quest to reproduce her chimichurri as…
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This month felt a lot like I was holding my breath, waiting for things to happen. February is our first stock vest of the year, so there’s always the anticipation of waiting for the earnings announcement, followed by the anticipation (and anxiety!) of watching what the stock price does in between earnings and the next…
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After we moved to Vancouver, Washington in 2010, we made a point of going back to our home town of San Jose, California as often as we could. When I picked up running in 2016, and actually stuck with it for the first time, I naturally wanted to run a turkey trot in my home…
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As mentioned in the last roundup, I realized that I haven’t been making too many new-to-me non-baking recipes and set out to remedy that this month. It didn’t mean that I didn’t also try new baking recipes, but I was very pleased with the new dinner recipes we tried out this past month. New Recipes…
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It was a little rocky throughout the month, but ultimately it was another steady climb up to new net worth and invested asset heights. When we got later in the year last year and I hadn’t dropped in the remaining $25k I intended to put in our brokerage, we decided to take $14k of that…
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This was our second time going to Miami. The first time we went was in December of 2022. Depending on which member of the family you asked, it was either an incredible success or one of the worst trips we’ve ever had – the first part of the trip went off without a hitch, but…
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I really spent a lot of time pondering how to structure this post. Normally, my year in review is just looking over our net worth spreadsheet, rambling the cliff notes to my husband, and calling it a day. This year was the first year that I closely tracked our spending, using the spreadsheet from this…
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One of the perks of doing this monthly roundup is realizing that I’ve been doing a whole lot of new baking recipes, but almost no new cooking recipes in several months. I was compiling this list right around the time we meal planned for the week, so it spurred me to put a new recipe…
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So much for a Santa Rally! I suppose asking for a rally after a 24% YTD gain is pretty greedy, but it was still not the way I think most of us were hoping the end of the year would go. I’m still pondering how to organize the first full year of detailed expense-tracking I’ve…
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