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July 2013 net worth update (+9.4%) 3 Aug 2013 | 09:15 am
31-Dec-2012 30-Jun-2013 31-Jul-2013 MoM YTD cash $12,100 $10,900 $12,400 +$1,500 +$300 savings $26,800 $23,400 $23,300 -$100 -0.4% -$3,500 -13.1% investments $74,000 $104,600 $11...
2013 Half-Year Review: Spending 31 Jul 2013 | 09:02 am
I post monthly on my net worth, where I talk about my savings rate. I also posted recently on my thoughts on homeownership 12 months in. So I thought I’d concentrate on how my spending has been going ...
Independence Day Long Weekend Mini-Vacation Budget 15 Jul 2013 | 11:51 am
I don’t usually post budgets from my trips, but I’m making an exception this time because I am really happy with how cheap this trip turned out to be and I traveled by myself. I traveled to a friend’s...
Reflections on Home Ownership: 12 Months In 10 Jul 2013 | 08:36 am
6 month post I’m having a really hard time distinguishing between home ownership and this being the place I live in now. Do I love this place because it’s my favorite of all the places I’ve ever live...
Ting from Sprint: 5 Months In 8 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
Back in January/February, I switched cell phone carriers. I had bought a fancy smartphone and started a contract with Sprint back in mid-2011, buying into how awesome smartphones are. Don’t get me wro...
June 2013 net worth update (+1.4%) 3 Jul 2013 | 10:33 am
31-Dec-2012 31-May-2013 30-Jun-2013 MoM YTD cash $12,100 $7,900 $10,900 +$3,000 -$1,200 savings $26,800 $23,100 $23,400 +$300 +1.3% -$3,400 -12.7% investments $74,000 $104,900 $...
On June 1 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
June was a pretty awesome month, probably the best month I’ve had all year. For a lot of reasons, the first quarter this year was really hard emotionally. April was a bit hard from the remnants of tha...
May 2013 net worth update (+6.3%) 3 Jun 2013 | 05:31 am
Spoiler: I flew past the $250,000 net worth marker! I’m a little sad that I didn’t just barely hit it and then pick up the speed the following month, but I’ll survive since it brings me that much clos...
Tax-Efficient Investment Placement Over Time 29 May 2013 | 10:39 am
Since I don’t let myself actually fidget with my investments, I instead make a lot of spreadsheets about them. My latest spreadsheet shows how I would ideally split my investments across multiple acco...
Optimize Efficiently: Credit Card Rewards 19 May 2013 | 09:05 am
It’s no secret that I love optimizing things. I have to make a strong effort to optimize what I optimize though. Sometimes I get caught up in optimizing things that just aren’t worth optimizing. Latel...
