August 2009 Net Worth – $105,529.43
August was another great month for us. In fact, unexpectedly, it was the best month we’ve ever had. It beat December of 2008′s net worth increase by about $20. Not only that, but we hit the major milestone of a 6 figure net worth. w00t! We’re 10% of the way to our goal of 1 million dollars. After the dismal performance in 2008 it feels nice to have the gains coming fast and furious.July 2009 Net Worth – $98,363.63
I’m sure we aren’t the only ones enjoying the impact of a rising stock market. It left us with one of our best months ever, and super close to a big milestone. If things go according to plan, there’s no reason we shouldn’t hit it in August.June 2009 Net Worth – $92,184.94
No big changes during the month of June, and while it wasn’t quite the pace that I would hope for, we did manage to have a positive month, and I’m always happy about that.May 2009 Net Worth – $90,562.90
May was another good month for us, especially when you consider that it includes our trip to Europe where we spent a lot of money. We hit the $90k milestone for the first time. It’s an obvious indicator of how the “tough economic times” affected our net worth because we had been consistently hitting $10k milestones every 4 to 5 months, but this one took 13 months as you can see below. May ’09 – $90k (13 months) Apr. ‘08 Continue article...April 2009 Net Worth – $84,608.02
April earned us our second largest net worth increase ever. I suppose it’s still too early to say things are turning around.March 2009 Net Worth – $77,845.01
If you’re wondering what happened to the money in our Emigrant Direct account, well, we’re taking a vacation to Europe this summer. The wife is graduating college and this is her little reward.February 2009 Net Worth – $75,485.48
January 2009 Net Worth – $79,264.41
December 2008 Net Worth – $80,462.58
While 2008 was not the best year for our net worth, December, surprisingly, turned out to be the best month we have ever had. When the stock market stops working against us, we’ll be hoping to have months like this more often.
The fact that we had such a good month is particularly nice considering the extra expenses we had this month. Not only did we have the usual extra holiday expenses, but my wife managed to bang her car Continue article...
November 2008 Net Worth – $73,317.70
Hopefully the stock sale will continue into January (I have no doubts that it will) so I can load up our 2009 Roth IRA’s at these discount prices.
Interestingly enough, it was exactly two years ago, in November of 2006, that my Roth IRA surpassed the $20,000 mark for the first time. Back then little did I imagine that I would pass the same mark again 2 years later in November of 2008, but this time heading in the Continue article...
