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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My 2020 Goals

I think setting some 2020 goals down in electrons will be valuable. For me, it will hopefully cause some reflection as I set the goals and create some accountability by publishing them on the blog. I hope it will also inspire us all to approach 2020 with some intention and a “growth mentality.”

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State 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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State of the Stash – December 2019

Happy New Year! It is time for my personal finance journal update. I am just going to update savings/invested assets in this post and will work on another post updating total net worth and doing an annual review over the next several days. It takes a little bit longer to estimate my total net worth as I’ve got some real estate and deferred compensation to value.

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State of the Stash – October

It is time for my monthly personal finance journal update. October was pretty exciting. I increased my savings over the last month due to a bit of a small income windfall. I also had some help from Mr. Market. I am getting close to a pretty big milestone.

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