A lot has changed in the last 3 years, we have gone from the typical “Little savings and debt-ridden” American household that dominates the headlines to a debt dominating, money saving machine. Over the last 3 years, we have paid off $60,000 in non-mortgage debt principal and added just over $90,000 to various savings and […]
Net Worth
Action Equals Results – Net Worth Update – Q1 2017
The last three months were intense, culminating with the birth of our first child at the end of March! She is actually sleeping away on my lap as I write this (it is going to take some practice to master this skill). THANK YOU to everyone who congratulated us when we sent the announcement on […]
The Billionaires that Give Billions
Over the last week I have seen the same headline at local, National and Worldwide news outlets “Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world.*” That is a powerful statistic showing the gap between rich and poor. 8 people have the same amount of money as 3.6 billion people. What it doesn’t talk about […]
Turning Action into Results: Q4 Net Worth Update
Welcome to 2017 everyone – hope you rung the new year in with style. I fell asleep at 11:30 and Mrs AE scared me at midnight when she shouted Happy New Year! Apparently I am an old man already and don’t think its necessary to see the ball drop. I heard they have a show […]
Is Tracking Net Worth Adding Value?
Before we started setting yearly goals, our Net Worth was the only financial benchmark I tracked. As we started investing bigger portions of our salary (15-20% of our after tax income) it started shifting dramatically. At the beginning of 2015, we started focusing on specific yearly goals. Tracking our Net Worth fell off my priority list for awhile. Since starting […]
Q3 Net Worth Tracking Update
Net Worth Tracking day is here! Looking forward to Personal Finance Bloggers earnings reports this week. For anyone that has not seen this done before, I hold myself accountable by posting my net worth progress for everyone to see. You can view the full last quarter break down here. Anyone remember that Brexit thing? Hope you […]
Net Worth Update – Q1 2016
I have seen this on a few other sites (the biggest one being Budgets Are Sexy) and started thinking that if I had to write down my net worth today, I would not be within 5%. I periodically check this figure, but with how much the market shifts and how high our savings rate is it […]
