April 2007 Net Worth Snapshot
April was another good month where we saw progress in all categories.
All of our stock investments saw positive gains thanks to the strong market performance in April.
Again, because I was hesitant to include home equity in the calculation, it is an ultra-conservative number. It is more accurately the amount of our mortgage that we have [...]
March 2007 Net Worth Snapshot
After last month’s disappointing results, we were able to get things back on track this month. Our net worth passed the fairly significant mark of $50,000, which we had expected to do last month. That puts us 1/20th of the way to a million dollars.
The home equity total increased more that usual because we [...]
February 2007 Net Worth Snapshot
I worked too hard in February to move backwards, but that’s exactly what happened. It was a pretty brutal month for us. There were tons of irregular expenses like the flat tire that couldn’t be fixed and had to be replaced, the 6 month car insurance payment, and my wife going get new contacts only [...]
January 2007 Net Worth Snapshot
The year has started out well for us, thanks in part to some extra money I received for some overtime work I had done in December. As I had mentioned in the Year End Review, one of the first things we wanted to do this year was get our “emergency savings” in Emigrant Direct [...]
2006 Year End Review
2006 was a good year for us. We purchased our first home, my wife is a year closer to graduation, and our net worth nearly doubled from $23, 824 to $45,705. I wont complain about a 91.8% increase. Here’s a closer look at each account:
December 2006 Net Worth Snapshot
We have had a very similar rate of growth over the last 4 months. The extra spending and tuition costs of December were made up for by a Christmas bonus that I received. If we continued to average a net worth increase of about $2500 a month, it would take nearly 32 years [...]
November 2006 Net Worth Snapshot
November was another positive month for us with our largest increase since March. We saw gains in every single category, which is always nice. The market’s strong performance has provided a nice boost.
We hope to hit a net worth of $45,000 by year’s end, but that won’t be easy with the increased expenses [...]
October 2006 Net Worth Snapshot
October was another good month similar to September with a 6% increase in net worth. We crossed a new milestone as our net worth passed $40k for the first time!
It has been eight months since we passed the $30k mark back in February, and we also purchased a home in that time. Now [...]
September 2006 Net Worth Snapshot
September turned out to be a pretty decent month with gains nearly across the board.
August 2006 Net Worth Snapshot
I’m a bit late in posting the numbers for August, but here they are. We managed a small gain for the month although as you can see we spent more of the money in our banks than we put in. Most of this was due to tuition and associated expenses ($225 for one [...]
