Looks like it was another rough month. Our net worth increased 1.96% for a dollar total of $3,070.19. My wife was feeling upset that she had to go back to work after maternity leave after about 6.5 weeks. A about a week and a half after she returned, she got a gallbladder attack so bad that she had to have it surgically removed! That meant she would be out of work for another 3 weeks. Well, she said she wanted to spend another few weeks with the baby, now she is! But that also means more disability pay which is something like 60% of the past 15 months salary.
We did pretty well saving and banking a nice amount of cash for our saving account. That's thanks to some nice overtime and some more ad space sold. Nothing more to report than that. Retirement accounts creeping up, while our debts are inching down. You can see a more detailed view of last months progress by clicking the pic on the left. Climbing the ladder slowly, but surely...
Today's net worth snapshot falls on our new son's 6 week birthday. Six weeks later also means that my wife will be going back to work next week! But a month and a bunch of poopy diapers later, we finally seem to be getting back on track this month with our net worth increasing 2.87%, for a dollar total of $4,374.81.
Two big differences between this month over last month was that we finally started to receive disability checks for my wife's maternity leave, and there were no big credit card purchases. Seems the stock market helped the retirement accounts a bit and the loans are being paid down slowly but surely. We'd like to save as much as possible because we'd like to purchase a house within the next several months to a year.
With my wife going back to work part time until September, it should be slow going the next several months. Oh, and the breast feeding wasn't working out too well for us, so that was stopped about 3.5 weeks ago. We'll have to shell out extra money fo
Whew, what a month it's been! With the preparation and arrival of our new son, comes a multitude of challenges. From emotional to physical, from financial to intellectual, it's going to be interesting for the rest of our lives.
Well, as to be expected, last month was a bit difficult financially. Our net worth has minutely increased by 0.19% for a dollar total of $294.00. (Click balance sheet on left for more details) The disability money we were expecting to help out while my wife was on maternity leave never showed! The first check was 2 weeks late.
Now we find that we have to fax in a letter explaining the situation so they can stop payment on the check if it's out there, and put a trace on it. After that process, they'll mail us another check which should take another 2-4 weeks! Our 2nd check was mailed out yesterday, so we're hoping that one shows up on time. Due to less savings and paying taxes last month, there was a slight decrease in our cash funds.
Our retirement funds
It's quiet...too quiet. This is the sound of the calm before the storm...the financial storm. I'm done paying last months bills, and haven't started paying this months yet. Thanks to the timing of a few financial helpers, this is another net worth record for us ($152,120.85).
This month our net worth has increased by 5.99%, for a dollar total of $8,601.65. You can view the blance sheet on the left, click to enlarge. There are a couple of transactions I made last month that stand out. I sold our I-bonds, and made a contribution towards our Roth IRA. I've had the bonds since Oct 05, and they've done pretty well since then, an appreciation of approximately 6.3%. I wanted to use the money for the roth contribution, and for an upcoming tax payment.
We did pretty well on the saving front due to a extra paycheck, auto insurance payment break, some overtime, and a record amount of blog advertising for the month. There was an interesting increase in my companies retirement plan for a
Youch! This months net worth stung! Due to automobile value re-calculations, baby preparations, and the stock market "correction," we're up only 2.08% or $2,921.96 for the month of March. You can view the full balance sheet on the left for more data. (click to enlarge)
That's a record low increase for us since we've been calculating it for over a year now. But I suppose it's to be expected since it's been about a year since our last car value calculations. Because I slacked on re-evaluating at the end of the year, we took a hit of approximately $1,100.
Let's see, our cash savings increased approximately $2,200. That increase on top of the $1,400 immediate liabilities reduction brings our emergency reserve to healthy $37,665.33. For now, you're always going to see the obligatory large amount of savings, and a slight reduction in debt due to our goal of buying a house within this year, or possibly the next. Don't get the wrong idea, all bills are paid on time, a
Are the holidays over already? The part of me takes care of the finances says hooray! And the part of me that loves friends, family and this time of the year says boooo! The pic on the left side of my post is our net worth balance sheet, click to enlarge. It's the worst net worth increase since I've been keeping track February of last year. I guess that's to be expected due to the holiday shopping, and having a new patio door put in. With all of the overtime I've been working, I expect a nice rebound this month. Wait, we're looking to have a new carpet installed this month, and will be starting to purchase baby furniture...crap.
Looks like we might be in for another sub par month. There's not much really to say about this months net worth. Assests only creeped up due to household and holiday spending, and liabilities creeped down for the same reason. Again, I'm keeping the automobile values static until my next net worth calculation. I've decided to re-evaluate them ever
What a difference a day makes, or in our case, 30 days. Thanks to 5 pay periods this month, it's partially a record net worth. Our net worth increased 5.56%, for a record dollar total of $6,937.36. Due to a mistake I made when opening our new E-loan savings account, we missed the percentage record by .01%. It seems I stated on our application that we're subject to federal tax withholding, which meant they took out a few bucks out of our savings this month. But after a quick phone call and e-mail, that should hopefully be corrected by next month.
It seems the biggest jump on our balance sheet was made in our liquid assests catagory, with a plump $5,000 increase. Retirement was up a bit, and I kept our home value, car and jewelry static until at least the next net worth calculation. The home value will pretty much stay the same ulness I get an official appraisal, I don't put much faith in my real estate guesstimations. The car values I'll have to relay on Blue Book for, and the j
Not a bad month, I'll take it. This month we find that our net worth has increased by $4,862.26 or 4.05%. And by the looks of it we probably could've done better if we tried. We spent more than the average on dining out. Not much out of the ordinary on this one. I noticed that our debt to load ratio is down almost 10% for the year. According to some experts, the debt-load ratio should be around 35%, and most of it should consist of the mortgage. Looks like it'll be a couple of years before we're there. The emergency fund is growing nicely, that'll come in handy with a baby on the way (due date April 25th). This is the another month with our net worth increasing over 4%, which is pretty nice. Climbing the ladder, slowly but surely...
It seems as though all of the "financial" moons have aligned to make this one of our best net worth increases to date. Our net worth has increased by a record 5.57% or $6,332.56 for a total of $119,927.21.
To tell you the truth, at first thought, I don't really know how we did it. It's probably several factors that happen to fit well together at this point in time. First off, I've started to add all of the small stuff into our net worth, like any cash we may have in our wallets, money in the change jar, uncashed checks, etc. It may not be much, but every little bit counts.
Ah, now I remember, how can I forget? I busted my butt working some overtime this month, and it looks like that really helped. Hm, let's see, we finally received our "New Jersey FAIR home owner rebate" just in time to be calculated.
Received a little extra chunk of change from selling on half.com and some ad space on the blog. There's also been a slight increase in the retiremtent accounts due to the market
