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I have a confession to make. A timely confession, given that this is being written on October 1st, after the close of the stock market. When recording my monthly net worth statement, I always start by entering the values as they stand on the last day of the month. I don’t “lock” those values in,…
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Oddly, I was less motivated to do this accounting. Sure, I had gone through Monarch already and categorized everything as Travel, and I had even created the tab for this account in my vacation expenses spreadsheet before we took the trip, but something about this was less interesting than our Ireland trip. Maybe because that…
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At the time of writing this blog entry, I have 67 Google Flights alerts set to email me when prices change. If they ever start limiting the number of alerts you can set, I’ll be really, really sad, but for now, I keep loading them up with aspirational and planned trips to keep track of…
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Well, we finally made it through fog of August and came out over $1.4MM officially. The stock vest I referenced in the last net worth update recovered almost $10/share by the time the actual vest event occurred, which was thrilling. My strategy is, and has always been, to sell immediately upon vest (as in –…
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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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