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A Year of Net Worth Tracking

A Year of Net Worth Tracking

On October 1, 2015, I created a spreadsheet for tracking our net worth broken out by our various accounts. While Mint has been tracking our technical net worth since Kyle and I got married and combined our finances, I consider our true net worth to be slightly different, and those differences were large enough last fall that I wanted a separate place to keep track.   (Our “technical” net worth is all our monetary assets minus all … Read entire article »

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What Triggers Frugality: Net Worth or Income?

What Triggers Frugality: Net Worth or Income?

My mindset toward frugality has changed quite a bit even during the few short years I’ve been blogging.     While I’ve never felt poor, Kyle and I used to be very careful with our money. I mean, we would still do a lot of things like travel domestically and pay for entertainment, but we would be very deliberate and tight in how we went about it. We traveled to Chicago to attend a wedding, for instance, but road-tripped … Read entire article »

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Who Has Seen You Financially Nude?

Who Has Seen You Financially Nude?

I’m in the process of preparing a guest post for a large blog (I’m cold-emailing, so you can hope that it will be accepted!) and as a part of the post I state our net worth.  While I do spending updates here every month, per Kyle’s request I am a little cagey about how much we save (we stick with percentages) and we’ve never said exactly how much we have in savings.  So it’s a … Read entire article »

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What’s the Point of Calculating Net Worth?

What’s the Point of Calculating Net Worth?

I enjoy reading other PF bloggers’ monthly reports on their net worth progress, whether they use real numbers or percentage increases.  I haven’t so far written a net worth post or series for us and as of now I don’t plan to.  I just don’t see how it would be interesting or informative in our situation.  So I’ll bore you with one post instead of with a series.   Here are the components that contribute to our … Read entire article »

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