net worth
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Well, it’s a new year, and while 2025 was apparently a great year for the stock market, it ended its last week on a slump. Being up 16% for the year obviously makes up for it, but overall, it hasn’t been a very relaxing year with the stock market, nor one in general, so it…
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The stock market was largely flat this past month, so the growth out of this net worth update was derived primarily from the cash that showed up with the last stock vest of the year. I continue to monitor the market much more lightly than I have in the past, and I’m curious to see…
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Another month has flown by, and as I’ve continued to avoid paying too much attention to the stock market, it’s up another 2% and some change. Work has been pretty consuming, so dwelling on money movements has been less appealing than usual. I continue to be suspicious about the growth we’re experiencing, but as usual,…
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Happy government shutdown day to all who celebrate! 😛 I did not spend a lot of time looking at the stock market this month. I don’t know if it’s a side effect of dialing back my MBDR savings, or if I’ve just had different things to think about this past month, but other than a…
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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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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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One foot in front of the other this month. It felt like the first two weeks sped by, then everything ground down to a much slower pace. It was also one of those annoying months where my semi-monthly pay schedule had my first paycheck arriving on a Sunday, which moved it to Friday the 13th…
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Well, on a month where the stock market went up over 6% and I vested another tranche of RSUs, it’s not a surprise that everything is looking green this month. Our cars even marginally increased in value, somehow. Of course, the whims of the market and a certain hair-trigger head of state make this feel…
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I have to admit, when, at the peak in February, our investments reached $1,071,XXX, I thought to myself, “We’re probably safely above a million now.” I’m a fairly superstitious person, but I am pretty sure that I didn’t knock on wood, and April made me regret it. I don’t usually show the monthly chart of…
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I don’t think my cover images are ever particularly subtle, but this one is probably the least subtle yet. We seem to have returned to a tariffs era, for better or for worse (at present, “worse” seems like the more obvious outcome), during a time when we’re still struggling with inflation and weirdly, the price…
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