"The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own." – Warren Buffett
At long last, 2020 is over! Dr. Fauci says we could potentially be looking at a somewhat normal life by the fall. (meh) In the meantime, we have my monthly updates to get us through.
It is time for my monthly savings and investing journal update. Let us examine the State of my Stash…
Continue reading “State of the Stash – December 2020”Hello people! It has been a minute. If you missed my mediocre content, I’m sorry. I’ve been buried with work (and 2020). But I’m back baby (just like value stonks and Bitcoin)! Let’s go ahead and crack the seal, on the monthly update to my personal finance and investing journal.
Continue reading “State of the Stash – November”It is time for another update to my monthly personal finance journal. The stock market pulled back in September. My investment portfolio went down a bit less than the stock market indexes (Mission Accomplished!) and my balances continued to modestly increase.
Continue reading “State of the Stash – September”It is time for another update to my monthly personal finance journal. The stock market continued to rally strongly in August. While my portfolio did not keep up with the stock market, my balances continued (modestly) to increase.
Read AlongThis will be a short personal finance post. There is an odd series of claims made in the ongoing debate about the merit of home ownership in the personal finance community. Some very famous financial personalities/authors have said rather controversial things about buying a home. Among these takes are: “your house is not an asset,” “your house is a liability,” “renting will make you rich,” and “all debt is evil.”
A lot of these statements can probably be partially excused as attempts to have a “hot take” to shock readers into undertaking a critical examination of the conventional wisdom that owning a home, rather than renting, is a no brainer or “the best way to build wealth.” Similarly, the slogans in favor of buying homes are also probably attempts to shock people into the (huge) action of buying a home. So what is the right answer?
MoreIt is time for another update to my personal finance journal. Tracking my net worth and savings is important to help me to stay motivated and on track. I hope it is also interesting for you to follow along on my (long) journey. This month I continued to save, but Mr. Market did most of the work growing my portfolio!
Read AlongTime for the monthly update to my savings/investment balances. Things bounced back a bit this month, as one might expect in the strongest monthly rally since ~1987.
Continue reading “State of the Stash – April”Oooof! Time to take my medicine and update my investment balances. Click here to behold the raging chemical fire that my dirty financial laundry has become (just kidding it’s not THAT bad).
Continue reading “State of the Stash – March”Hold my corona! It is time for the airing of my personal financial laundry. Let’s see what the corona virus and related market action has done to my portfolio.
Continue reading “State of the Stash – February”It is time for my personal finance journal update. The first one of the new decade!
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