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State of the Stash: Q2 2023

It is time for my personal finance and investing journal update. Let’s update the State of my Stash.

If you are new to my blog, or this series of posts, I am tracking my liquid savings/marketable investments. These posts are sort of a finance and investing journal, so I can look back and see what I was thinking and (hopefully) how I achieved certain financial and savings goals. The primary benefit for me is to have a “forcing function” to make me drill down and see what’s going on.

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State of the Stash: 2023 Savings Goals – Coast FI?


If you are new to my blog, or this series of “State of the Stash” posts, I am tracking my liquid savings/marketable investments. These posts are sort of a finance and investing journal, so I can look back and see what I was thinking and (hopefully) how I achieved certain financial and savings goals. The primary benefit for me is to have a “forcing function” to make me drill down and see what’s going on. If you’re more interested in electronically chatting about investments, these posts are probably not of interest to you.

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State of the Stash – December 2020

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…

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State of the Stash – August

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.

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State of the Stash – June

It 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!

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State of the Stash – April

Time 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.

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State of the Stash – March

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).

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State of the Stash – February

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.

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