net worth

The Evolution Of My Relationship With Money

December 8, 2010

Four years ago, the focus of my blog was money.  I wrote about our efforts to earn it, save it, and pay down debt.  I identified with the personal finance blogosphere, and was quite wrapped up in things like calculating our net worth, and making sure it was always higher than it had been the [...]

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Keeping Track Of Our Spending

September 14, 2009

Recently I got an email from a long-time reader, asking me if we still keep track of our monthly expenses.  I guess the answer is both yes and no.  We do pay close attention to what we are spending, and I check our bank balances and credit card transactions on a daily basis.  But we [...]

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Diversify By Paying Down The Mortgage

October 8, 2008

As I mentioned yesterday, our stock-based retirement portfolio is looking a little rough around the edges these days (and I’m sure it’s even worse now than it was yesterday – but I’m not looking).  Times like these are when I’m glad that we’re focusing on paying off our mortgage as quickly as possible, in addition [...]

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Net Worth Update

December 26, 2007

Our networth rose to $90,772 this month, a $4000 increase since October.  That’s mostly due to aggressive contributions to our HSA, along with a $1000 increase in our retirement funds.  We also paid off some more money on our HELOC and our main mortgage.  Our networth will take a hit over the next few months [...]

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Networth October 2007

November 10, 2007

I just finished updating our NetworthIQ profile, and although our net worth has increased, it’s been a bit hampered by the stock market.  The last time I updated our numbers was August, and we’re up about $2000 since then.  But our retirement accounts are actually worth less than they were in August, even though we’ve [...]

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Net Worth Update August 2007

September 19, 2007

I update our networth every two or three months, and I always do it right after we get our mortgage statement in the mail, so that I have an accurate debt amount.  How nice that we got our statement yesterday, when the Feds lowered the interest rate and my IRA  jumped nearly $1000.  Always nice [...]

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Stock Market Blahs

August 1, 2007

I just checked my IRA balance and it’s gone down by about $1000 in the last two weeks.  What a bummer.  I know I’m not alone, and I know I can’t even touch that money for 30 years, so it doesn’t really matter.  But I think I’ll wait a few weeks to update our net [...]

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Net Worth Half Way Thru 2007

July 13, 2007

I just put our numbers into Networth IQ, and was pleasantly surprised.  Our net worth has increased to $82,526.  Last December, it was $68,813, and at the time, I set a goal for us to increase our net worth by $20,000 in 2007.  It looks like we’ll easily reach that goal, since we’ve added $13,000 [...]

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Net Worth in April 2007

May 13, 2007

I haven’t calculated our net worth for a few months, but I knew it was going in the right direction. Selling my ring and the gift from my parents helped a lot over the last couple months. Our net worth right now is $77,386. That’s about a $6500 increase since January, but it’s short of [...]

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Net Worth

February 21, 2007

I didn’t do our net worth calculation last month.  I just did it on Monday, and we’re at $70,906.  That’s an increase of over $1000 since December, although that’s primarily from our retirement accounts.  We’ve put $800 into those accounts since December, but they’ve increased in value (on paper) by over $2000.  Our cash accounts [...]

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