The Sun’s Financial Diary

Since Jim at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity started the best and worst money moves last Monday, many have shared their stories with us and a lot can be learned from their personal experience. Looking back the road of our investment of the past five years, if the best or worst is measured by the size [...]

Last month, I spent more than $300 on stuff that I have no intention for my own use. The ten items purchased on Buy.com throughout October are all buy-and-sell electronic devices (flash drives, wireless adapters, router, hard drive enclosure, and headset, etc.) Except a Bluetooth headset that I later found that was excluded from regular [...]

Last night, when I finished the final calculation of our October net worth, I found that we had a net increase of $106,792 in the first 10 months of this year. That was really a surprise as I never expect we can do this well. So exactly where did those gains come from? Here's a [...]

 Summary:
October turned out to be another solid month as we saw an increase of $16,810.66 in our net worth. Excluding house and car related assets and liabilities, the total net worth at the end of October is $401,089, up 4.37% from September, thanks to a record-setting month of stock markets. The reason I excluded house [...]

Ok, it's reporting time and it begins with the monthly expenses.

Summary:
The daily living costs of October was $1697, slightly higher than that of September when we spent $1649. The increase is about 3% (equivalent to the annual inflation rate ?) However, there are some one-time expenses that I think will not repeat [...]

As the closing bell sounded on Wall Street, the month of October came to an end, at least financially. How did we do this month? 
Well, I don't have the exact number yet, but considering that the Dow kept setting new record highs this month (up from 11676 to 12080), we definitely got some help from [...]

I bought two more items tonight on Buy.com, one flash drive ($24) and one MP3 player ($25), and that made the total buy-and-sell spending this month to $300! In the past, I only bought single item here and there with the after rebate price no more than $10. But since Buy.com has a $10 off [...]

I spotted some good deals on Buy.com in the past couple of days and spent $175 on six items, a 802.11g wireless adaptor ($38), a Bluetooth headset ($28), a USB flash drive ($24), a hard drive enclosure ($35), a headset ($25), and an antenna ($25), which I feel could bring me some profits if I [...]

It has been a while since I have multiple items sold on Amazon.com in one day. Considering that I now have a very small inventory (only five items before the sell and once at the peak time, I had about 25 items listed), I am very happy to see them on the way to their [...]

This is definitely the first time I ever checked the total passive income generated in the middle of the year. I usually crunch the numbers once a year when I fill the tax returns. Out of curiosity, I spent nearly an hour last night and summarized the money that are generated by money for 2006 [...]