Frugal Babe

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 as [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Happy New Year!  2006 is in the books, and it was a good year.  I just calculated our net worth, which went up by $939 in December.  December is a tough month, because estimated taxes are due in January, so I always have to keep lots of money in reserve to pay the quarterly tax [...]

I’ve always been a goal setter. Be it school, work, or money, I set goals. I don’t normally write them down, but they’re always front and center in my head. I just read a post by Millionaire Artist about her new goal screensaver - very creative. It got me thinking - should I write down [...]

After blogging for two months about money, I decided to fill in one of those net worth calculators.  We’re at $68,813.  Not too bad, and it’s headed up, which is good.  Our goal is to be at or above $88,813 by the end of 2007.  Between our mortgage going down, our IRAs going up, and our [...]