I lost $2 million dollars
Well every goal I set for myself on this blog I not only met, but in many cases vastly over achieved. As you can see from my last post I brought up that I made the comment in my 2018 report that My …
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Holy crap I'm 40! My 30s financial review.
Dang time flies. It seems like just a couple years ago I was starting the blog and my career and I swear just last year I was writing my holy crap I’m 30 post. Well the bad news is time flies …
Read MoreInterim Retirement Nestegg Report $1.1M
Well it took a bit longer to hit this milestone than maybe I expected. In fact it this was the longest between 100k milestones since I went from $500k to 600k. At this point in my nest egg’s …
Read MoreWelcome to the two comma club
Well today was a special day for me and my now 12 year old blog. I officially joined the double comma club and achieved another goal set forth on this blog. My $1,000,000 retirement nestegg by age 40 …
Read MoreFinancial Goal Checkup: My very own basketball court
About 9 years ago I posted a kind of an unique financial goal on this blog - I wanted my very own full court basketball court. In roughly 5 years time I want to have enough money put away so that I …
Read MoreThe path forward to two commas ($1M by age 40)
I’m sure I’m not unique and I’m sure every financially savvy person has contemplated the day when their net worth / account balance will surpass the magical $1,000,000 mark. When I …
Read MoreInterim Retirement Nestegg Report - I broke $500,000
Well it took a little longer than last time, but compound interest is still working its magic with my retirement nestegg. Today I officially broke through the $500,000 mark for the first time. This …
Read MoreWhat am I saving money for?
This seems like kind of a horse after the cart type of moment, but I’ve more recently started to wonder what I am saving all of this money for. My retirement nestegg has grown exponentially and …
Read MoreWhoops I saved another $100,000 and didn't even try
Probably one of the more popular things I’ve done on this blog was set the goal of having saved $100,000 in retirement accounts by the time I hit 30. I ended up falling just short of that goal, …
Read MoreInterim Retirement Nestegg Report – I broke $300,000
Taxable Account - $2,022.45 Traditional Rollover IRA – $21,071.82 My Roth IRA – $80,604.97 Wife Roth IRA – $46,118.18 149,817.42 Traditional 401k – $152,115.57 Total Retirement Nestegg - $301,932.99 …
Read MoreInterim Retirement Nestegg Report - I broke $200,000
Traditional Rollover IRA $17,604.34 My Roth IRA $52,623.89 Wife Roth IRA $25,600.70 Current Traditional 401k $104,658.75 Total Retirement Nest Egg $200,487.68 Fell kind of dorky doing this 2 days …
Read MoreMy Financial Journey - 5 year anniversary
Wow - I can’t believe its already been five years since I started this blog. It really seems like its only been a year or two but looking back at where I started and where I am today its pretty …
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