April 2012 Net Worth $279,031.81

April wasn’t a particularly great month for us financially, it certainly wasn’t as good as the first 3 months of the year. The stock market had lower performance, and we had some irregular expenses including a vacation and a decent tax bill. It was, however, still a positive month, and a great first quarter of 2012.

March 2012 Net Worth $275,658.44

Another month of gettin it done. The first quarter of 2012 has been good for us. Let’s see how long we can keep this up.

February 2012 Net Worth – $267,656.62

Another solid month that has continued our great start to 2012. Five digit gaining months are still fairly rare, but getting more common. Time to get that 401k over $100k.

January 2012 Net Worth – $257,396.17

That’s a good start to 2012. The market rose in January and we reaped the benefits. It put our net worth over a quarter of a million dollars, which is pretty cool. Is 2012 going to be a record setting year?

December 2011 Net Worth – $242,797.20

A decent finish to 2011. Our net worth grew $52,769.10 this year. It wasn’t as good as we did in 2010, but it was just the brutal August and September months that set us back. I’m happy with what we accomplished in 2011, and we’ll reach for even more in 2012.

November 2011 Net Worth – $238,274.89

Our average monthly gain for the year is a little over $4k, so November was a pretty standard month. Hopefully we can finish the year with a strong December. We’re sneaking up on a quarter million.

October 2011 Net Worth – $234,085.99

And…… recovery. After two brutal months October brought us a full recovery with a big month. Gaining over $17k in one month would be pretty exciting if we didn’t know that we were just regaining what we had lost. However, an additional bright spot is that in October we bought a new car. With cash. I received a pay out check for a small start up that I invested a few thousand dollars in several Continue article...

September 2011 Net Worth – $216,973.16

And the stock market beat down continued in September attempting to crush my hopes and dreams along with it. I believe the last two months have been the two worst months we’ve ever experienced as far as our Net Worth is concerned. Fortunately, our path is pretty mechanical at this point, so there’s much chance of us getting worried and screwing something up based on fear.

August 2011 Net Worth – $226,598.63

August delivered a fairly brutal beat-down. Previous to this it had been over a year of consistent gains even with the struggling economy. One positive is that our savings account hit $40,000 which is a goal we put in place at the beginning of the year. Our overall net worth goal is going to be a little harder to hit after this month, but at least we’ve crossed one financial security goal off the list.

July 2011 Net Worth – $233,794.13

Worst month we’ve had in quite a while, but there are a lot of fears about the economy right now and it’s probably going to be a bumpy ride for a while. We’re glad to still be positive and pressing forward every month.

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