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Every year since 2020, I’ve looked forward to hearing the new 401k and IRA limits being announced. “Looked forward” is a strong statement, I suppose – I’ve anticipated the announcement and taken note when it arrived. There are several sites/entities that spend the entire year predicting the increase for the next year, so it’s usually
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I’ve gone back and forth about posting this. On the one hand, I love reading the nitty-gritty details of people’s vacations – the number (if any) of points they used, the amount everything cost, anything interesting they did as an activity, how much they used cash, their strategies for booking various things, etc., etc. On
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I meant to post more last month, but between personal travel and work travel, there was only a week where I was not either recovering from a trip or preparing for one, so I suppose I’ll kick off this month and do a better job planning some of the topics I’ve had on my mind.
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Remember COVID? Remember when everything shut down and nobody was allowed to travel (more or less) and borders were closed? We live in Washington state, and on the first week of April 2020, we were going to go on our first international vacation as a family, to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. You can probably guess how
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Another killer month. Last year, we went on a two week vacation to Italy at the end of the month of June, and came back to a substantial increase in our net worth despite the $20k or so we poured into the trip. I did not do a very good job not checking the markets
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Every year, I like to make New Year’s resolutions. I’m fundamentally a goal-based person – the kind of person who works well off of to-do lists, who will play a game and systematically complete every step and side quest, and who (conversely) tends to lose steam or end up adrift without something long-term to work
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May was a much better month than April on the net worth front! Though we’ve backed off a bit from our mid-month (or so) peak, there was still some really good progress. I had to remind myself that a $10k gain my 401k is still great, when I found myself grouchy that I finished the
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My husband and I have owned our home for a little over five years at this point. When we bought it in 2019, it was essentially turn-key – there was nothing we hated about it. Some of the choices of the previous owner, a lovely lady who shared a first name with me and who
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This was not one of my planned posts, but when you’ve decided to name your blog Violet Sky (after the lyrics from the Hole song) and the sky lights up pink, purple, and green, it’s probably a good topic to cover. The northern lights, to me, have always seemed like something that is interesting conceptually
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I considered opening this entry with, “What a way to start a blog!” But, absent the context of April’s net worth, I suppose this gets to stand on its own without the shadow of the n% drop in our invested assets looming behind it. Net worth is one of those funny things to me, where
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