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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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It’s that time of year again! We’ve made it to the end of the calendar year and past the cut-off date for the 12/31 paycheck (well, I have, at least – ymmv) and so it’s time to adjust our retirement contributions to reflect 2025’s new maximums. I know I am not alone in being a
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This trip was kind of a fun trip from a costs perspective, because I am a person who is perhaps bizarrely tickled by being able to get things for a discount or free. With my Alaska Airlines Visa, I get a yearly companion fare, and this was my first time using that benefit since I
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Holiday baking dominated this month, though I found one new recipe to work into the repeats we found ourselves eating. I really love Thanksgiving, not actually because of the holiday itself or anything it specifically represents, but because I really love cooking an absolute ton of food and watching people enjoy eating it. I found
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I had to double-check my numbers when updating my spreadsheet’s line item for my husband’s IRA – did it really increase by almost $3k in one month? It did, which was only shocking because I had forgotten how low the end of the previous month had ended. $2716 increase on a mid five figure balance
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