The Sun’s Financial Diary

After several days of hard habor, my new site is finanlly up and running. I have been switching back and forth in the past couple of days between different templates WordPress offered, trying to find one suitable for me yet not too difficult to make modifications (I am a newbie of CSS and php programming, [...]

Finally, I got my own home! Isn't that exciting? Well, considering that I have to move my blog posts on Blogger to this new home and set all the functions and tools, it probably will take a while before it finally gets into shape. But I look forward to the challenges ahead. [...]

Morningstar instant X-ray shows that for our mutual fund portfolio, more than 52% are in US stocks as of August. Another big chunk is foreign stocks, which counts more 38%. The foreign stock part has got a little bigger than what I desire 30%, and the growth mainly came from investments in Dodge & Com [...]

I have already summarized our expenses in August. Now it’s the networth’s turn to appear on the score card. Not included in the plot are 1) car loan (as well as the values of our cars) and 2) mortgage (as well as the value of our house). The main reason of not including these two [...]

As the month of August has come to an end, it’s time to see how I did in the past month.
The first item on the score card is the monthly expenses. This is the first time in a while that I kept a complete record of how we spent the money this month. Not included [...]

Well, after what seemed to be a booming month of August, my sales on Amazon.com run into stalemate in the past week. The last sale was made on August 19th, since then all the remaining seven items still belong to me. I admit that those leftovers are not very attractive, so it didn’t and won’t [...]

I haven’t tracked my expenses for many years (at least eight as I remember). I used to use paper and pen to keep a record of every penny I spent when I was a student with a tight budget. At the end of the month, I knew exactly how much I spent on bread and [...]

In my previous post, I said that I bought a hard drive enclosure kit for $15.99 AR and intended to sell it on Amazon.com.
Last Friday night, two days after I received the kit and put it for sale on Amazon, it was sold for $29.99, the lowest price for the same item listed. After the [...]

Orders just kept coming in.
Today alone three items I listed on Amazon.com were sold, bringing in a profit of $110.00. All of them are books I no longer need. So far I have sold 11 items on Amazon and there are still 13 up for sale. Looks like I may need to find some new [...]

I ordered two items today, a disk enclosure for $15.99 AR and a FireWire card for $5.99 AR. Do I really need them? Probably only the enclosure if I have to keep it. The card is definitely to be put up for sale on Amazon, which I plane to do right when I receive it. [...]