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My Best and Worst Money Moves
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 [...]
Amazon.com Buy-and-Sell Update
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 [...]
What Are Those $100,000+ Gains Exactly?
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 [...]
October 2006 Score Card — Part II: Net Worth
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 [...]
October 2006 Score Card — Part I: Expenses
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 in [...]
