money
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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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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 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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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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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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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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