finances
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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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Okay, I’ll admit, it’s a bit of a clickbait title, but I made a change to my retirement withholdings at the beginning of August, and while the change was carefully planned and thought about, it’s still occupying a lot of space in my mind. So I might as well write about it. Next year, I’m…
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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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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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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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