June 2010 Net Worth – $143,211.14

A bit of a late net worth update again. I guess when we have these negative months, I have a little less motivation to post them for all to see. There’s not much we can do about the stock market losses, which is where most of our net worth losses come from, so we continue to prod along and make our regular investments and let dollar cost averaging do it’s work.

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May 2010 Net Worth – $145,284.92

Well, I was “unimpressed” with our gains of over $4k last month, so it was only appropriate that I get reminded of what is possible. With a drop in the stock market, we saw a substantial loss in our accounts. Some money was transfered from our ESPP to our brokerage account, but most of the losses are due to falling stocks. Hopefully things will turn back around in June.

April 2010 Net Worth – $150,777.30

Our gains this month weren’t anything like last month, but I suppose we are in a pretty good place when an increase of over $4.4k feels somewhat unimpressive. I should note that we hit a bit of a milestone this month at $150k. It took us 2 years and 4 months to go from $50k to $100k, but it only took 8 months to go from $100k to $150k. It must have something to do with compounding Continue article...

March 2010 Net Worth – $146,345.15

At the beginning of this year, I made a goal to have a month where our worth increased by $10,000. It was a pretty big goal because our previous best month was about $7.5k. So, I was pretty surprised to see us reach that goal so quickly. We had a monster of a month in March. It feels good to get back those losses.

February 2010 Net Worth – $135,631.12

February was better than January and more in line with my hopes going forward. Hopefully we’ll be able to keep it up and have a strong year.

January 2010 Net Worth – $129,665.80

Not exactly the best start to 2010, but it was at least in the right direction. I’ve made plans to see continued gains in net worth this year, and hopefully those gains will be more evident in the upcoming months.

December 2009 Net Worth – $127,605.09

I’m a little late in getting this posted, but the bottom line is that we had a great month in December and a great year overall. We hope to keep it going in 2010.

November 2009 Net Worth – $120,999.66

Back in August we set a record for the largest increase in a month with a gain of $7,165 and we managed to beat that this month with a gain of $7,543. It’s been a really great year for us, and we’re loving how the gains just keep growing and growing. What a difference from last year. We can’t always expect the market to be recovering from a huge losses, so market gains won’t always be Continue article...

October 2009 Net Worth – $113,455.96

The stock market struggled over the last part of the month, so it’s not the big gains we’ve seen over the past few months, but as long as we continue to move in the right direction, we’ll be happy.

September 2009 Net Worth – $111,310.41

We can’t complain about how well things have been going for us. Five out of the last 6 months have provided us a gain of more than $5,500. As you can see, we hit the 100k mark last month, and in the following month we managed to cross the 110k mark. It’s a nice change of pace after taking more than a year to get from 80k to 90k. A lot of the big gains are Continue article...

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