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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008As expected, it turned out that April was a good month financially.
I hit two milestones: my net worth is above $60,000 for the first time, and I have over $100,000 in assets. I never thought that would happen! Too bad most of it’s in my retirement account and can’t be touched for […]
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Summer Vacation?
Thursday, May 1st, 2008I got out of work at 5 tonight (a half-day for me), and decided to take the night off. I was home by 6, had eaten by 7, and now it’s 9:30. The dishes are done, I’ve caught up on my blogging buddies’ blogs, and now I’m settled in to write a blog […]
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Buy, Carry, List, Pack, Mail
Sunday, April 27th, 2008That’s been my life this weekend. My book supply has been running low so I decided to really make an effort to increase my inventory. And I sure picked the right weekend. Saturday morning I went for a bike ride and hit all the stoop sales in my neighborhood. And there […]
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February Month-End Financial Update
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008I just updated my NetIQ financial profile.
btw I have a separate account for my book business & don’t include this in my financial profile. My business account is at about $100 now, because I’ve been buying new inventory with my profits.
At the beginning of February I wrote that I’d be happy if I […]
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Financial Update for January
Monday, February 4th, 2008My net worth broke $40,000 this month! What a great feeling. I managed to pay down about $1500 in debt, and my retirement accounts were up by $3000 since my last entry. I’m thinking about moving some money out of stocks and into cash. I’m not doing it today, but maybe […]
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Pay Off Debt, or Build Up Savings?
Monday, January 21st, 2008I’ve been thinking over the the long weekend about how I want to reconfigure my financial plan in light of the recession that seems to be upon us. Markets around the world are plummeting today: China and Brazil are down 6%, and India by 7.8%. My poor, battered 401k plan is 20% allocated to […]
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Debt Check-In
Sunday, January 13th, 2008Good news on the debt front.
My bonus was deposited into my checking account last week. I’ve paid down $11,000 in debt. I also put $2,300 into my savings account — feels good to have an emergency account again. And, I made a substantial contribution to my 401K. I took a big […]
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Yearly Bonus
Sunday, January 6th, 2008I just checked my checking account balance and saw that my yearly bonus came in via direct deposit yesterday. And in one fell swoop my net worth just about doubled. Feels good! However I was not expecting taxes to eat up such a big chunk of it. Seems like a significantly […]
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A Frugal Christmas
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007I’m taking a break from the technology stuff today and thinking more about personal finance, which of course is what this blog was originally about. The reason for this is, I am going to do my Christmas shopping today.
I decided around Thanksgiving that this Christmas is going to be a very frugal […]
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Putting Myself First (cont.)
Saturday, December 8th, 2007Yesterday M’s cellphone got shut off. He got a new plan with Verizon a few months ago with 300 free minutes. Somehow he didn’t quite get that it would start costing money after 300 minutes and, within 2 months, had run up a bill of $500. He asked me several times last […]
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