Personal Balance Sheet, June 2008: Net Worth +0.30%

Each month, I post an analysis of my finances and my end-of-month net worth. For more on why I do this, please take a look at my explanation post.
Let’s not sugar coat it, investments in June sucked! The markets were down collectively around 9% over the month and are now down around 14% over [...]

Personal Balance Sheet, May 2008: Net Worth +42.15%!

Each month, I post an analysis of my finances and my end-of-month net worth. For more on why I do this, please take a look at my explanation post.
May was an uncommonly, unconventionally successful month. Unfortunately, most of the “growth” was from money we technically already had but weren’t tracking.
Here’s the overview for [...]

Personal Balance Sheet, April 2008: Net Worth +3.81%, Passed $50K

Each month, I post an analysis of my finances and my end-of-month net worth. For more on why I do this, please take a look at my explanation post.
April was another great month of growth and the 2nd highest growth since I started tracking at the beginning of the year. But, unlike past [...]

Why Do I Post My Net Worth Each Month?

Around the beginning of every month, I have been posting the month-to-month change in my assets, liabilities, and net worth. It’s not a terribly common thing to do and it does open me up to some risk, but I think it’s important in my situation. I debated with myself for quite a while on how [...]

Personal Balance Sheet, March 2008: Net Worth +3.83%

After 4 months of meticulously tracking our financial data, I think we may have turned our boat around. Our numbers seem to keep growing when last year we were seeing nothing but red. Considering the condition of the markets, I think we may have seen the worst of our days with a lot [...]