Mo’ money, mo’ money, mo’ money.
Let’s talk about envy. I’m not talking the good kind that motivates you to save more like every time I read about someone maxing their 401k, Roth, and contributing to another traditional IRA or brokerage account. I can do the first two, but the others elude due to unfortunate income constraints. But, that kind of …
I was having a discussion over on Debt Blag that made me want to take a look at some of the trends in my net worth since I started calculating them. As you can see in the LONG table below, 2013 has been a really good year from a net worth point of view. In …
For a while on this site I was posting my net worth. I took it down because it didn’t seem to be adding value to the conversations and as it grew it began to feel more like bragging. It’s not that I didn’t earn the money and other assets I have, it’s that I no …
Well, 2012 was a pretty tumultuous year politically, and I was angry about the dereliction of duty by our Congress for most of it. Luckily for you guys I left my rants out of this blog. Coming into 2013 it looks like the Congress is setting itself up for the same sort stupidity that got …
July has not been a particularly interesting month. The coolest thing to happen this month is my son became an UNO expert and is learning how to play a competent game of 5 card stud. It's amazing how much math you can teach a 6 year old while playing poker with chips. And, we …
In psychology, there is a term called 'cognitive reframing'. It's a term that basically refers to finding different ways to look at the same situation. For example, while many bloggers were bemoaning their net worth dropping last month, I instead reframed it as a buying opportunity. By the looks of things this month, I was …
"Buying opportunities." That's what I'll optimistically call the theme from May. Otherwise, I might be pretty chagrined by my change in net worth. Obviously the condition of markets here and abroad. Every blogger I read as well as almost everybody else is getting dinged by the negativity because it is not sector or stock specific. …
April was not a particularly exciting month on personal finance front. The biggest change is that I have committed even more deeply to the LLC by investing $5,000 in. My partner has done the same. This capital will largely be sucked away in legal and website fees although we are doing it as frugally …
Q1 2012 has been a solid start to the year. For March, the most interesting thing that's been going on is the start-up of a new side project. I'm not going to go into detail now since it's still in its infancy, but starting an LLC and writing a business plan is actually a pretty …
February has been an extremely busy and exciting month. The BIG thing that happened from a personal finance perspective is that we refinanced our mortgage again down to a new fixed rate of 4%. You can read all the gory details here. As I discussed in that post, this has opened up a question …
