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!
Read AlongState 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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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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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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It is time for my personal finance journal update. The first one of the new decade!
Read MoreState of the Stash – 2019 Year End Total Net Worth
In my most recent post, I updated my end of 2019 savings/investments tracking journal. In this post, I’m going to take a crack at estimating my total net worth.
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My Savings Rate
The savings rate is a topic of much angst and consternation in the financial independence community. I have intended for some time to share my savings rate and periodically track/update it on this site. So, let’s do that. I also have some thoughts on the most sensible way to handle some of the more controversial aspects of computing the savings rate.
Read OnI’m Just Saving…Personal Finance Diary
Ok so no one commented eager to read about retail REITs, so I’m going to do a personal finance post. For those of you more interested in posts about investing, “move along, nothing to see here.” I hope this will not crater my readership, but I thought I would start regular posts (likely monthly) tracking my savings and marketable securities levels. This will serve a diary for me and hopefully as motivation. Continue reading “I’m Just Saving…Personal Finance Diary”