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A Year of Net Worth Tracking

October 17th, 2016 | 4 Comments

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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February 2015 Money Puddle and Spending Report

March 6th, 2015 | 8 Comments

February 2015 Money Puddle and Spending Report

Finally FINALLY FINALLY we are in the black for this month! What a difference having two incomes makes! I had half a month of income from my fellowship (1/6 of the total for the 3-month period since I started on January 20) and all of my December contract work income, which was my highest ever at $1,208 for the month. Kyle had his normal postdoc income.   While our spending was higher than was typical for us … Read entire article »

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What’s the Point of Calculating Net Worth?

April 11th, 2012 | 40 Comments

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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