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State of the Stash – January 2021

It is time for my monthly personal finance and investing journal update. Let us examine the State of my Stash…

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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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My Fun Fund and The Great Cessation

This is going to be a quick Fun Fund investment journal update to document my thoughts (and actions), so that I can hopefully reflect and improve over time (and, perhaps more likely, for our mutual future amusement).

I sold some stocks in my Fun Fund account last Friday, as a matter of portfolio management. If I am totally honest, however, I am also expressing a view about the overall market. The timing of “trimming” these positions was influenced by my view of the current risks and rewards on offer in the equity market.

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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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