One Caveman’s Financial Journey

Update: I have posted a template for setting up your own snowball forecast.
Seeing the snow outside my window got me thinking about Dave Ramsey’s debt snowball concept. After all the reading I’ve done about snowballing one’s debt, I knew I was going to implement the same method in knocking out all of our non-mortgage [...]

I don’t know about you, but I’m finally tired of winter. Yes, I realize we haven’t had a “real” winter around her for about 7 years and all of this precipitation will help keep us from suffering another bad drought for the 4th year in a row, but I’m really looking forward to spring [...]

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Last month, I was approaching my 4-year anniversary with my employer and I realized how much has changed since I arrived. I came in as an entry-level code monkey and was bumped up to the next level after one year after a few key departures which gave me the opportunity to prove [...]

We’ve now been rigorously tracking our financial data for 3 months and things are starting to look pretty good. But one can never let his guard down, so continually tracking and analyzing your financial numbers is essential for a sound personal finance strategy.
Since January, I changed my tracking methods slightly to include all assets. [...]