Kobe Bryant, one of the greatest professional basketball players of all time retired last week at the age of 37. He played all of his 20 seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers. Kobe Bryant is an 18 time NBA All-Star and a 5 time NBA champion. He was a beast on the court, so naturally he […]
We are in full election mode right now in the United States. The Republican and Democratic hopefuls have been ramping up their efforts by having rallies all over the country hoping that they get their respective parties nominations. Before the candidates decided to run for president, they had different types of jobs and brought in […]
Good morning Dinks. As you know I’ve had my share of financial troubles in the past. I have been dirt broke and over $50k in debt. Now I’m happy to say that for the first time in my life (in my 30s) I have a positive net worth. I know this isn’t really a big […]
As we mark our 8th wedding anniversary, we also took the time this weekend to update our net worth. What they say about the first million being the hardest to break seems to be true. In retrospect, the first $400k mark actually felt the hardest. It was back when the market was tanking and it […]
Hi All, This last weekend, my wife and I sat down and totaled up our net worth. April saw our wealth climb to $1.1 million. This is a slight improvement of $20,000 over the $1.08 million we had in February of this year. Here is a quick recap of some highlights, as well as well […]
James & I were pretty stoked in October to finally reach the Million Dollar mark! We were even more fortunate to review our finances at the end of the year and see that we had increased another 3.1% in the last three months, an increase of $33k. Increasing by $10k a month starts to take […]
Hi All, We updated our net worth this month. It looks like we’ve passed the one million threshold. This is terrific news. My wife and I have been seriously working at building our finances for over a decade, so its nice to see some payoff. In terms of the major takeaways here – most of […]
Hi All, This weekend we sat down and tallied up our net worth. The figures for July are below. The good news is that things are up overall, largely from gains in our retirement accounts. We seem to have found some magic growth number. Back in May we had seen an increase of 3.3% to […]
Good morning Dinks. Do you love reading posts about other people’s net worth? If you answered yes let me ask you a question – why? I used to think that bloggers posting about their net worth was a dumb reason for a post because it seemed like they were bragging, but then as I read […]
Hi All, With the start of a new month, my wife and I sat down and added up our net worth. As of this morning our wealth is somewhere around $937,000. The bulk of our assets are in real estate and retirement. We also have some cash, precious metals and bonds. The roughly $43,000 listed […]
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