For the past few years, I have really loved the idea of being that old guy with a weird amount of gold. However, I never really found a way to accumulate it monthly on an automatic basis. For a while I would just save a…
My 2026 overarching theme is to get back to the basics. I figured, what is more basic than reallocating my 401k and updating future contributions? Instead of doing the heavy lifting myself, I opted to see what ChatGPT would pump out, and wow, it did…
I know it is cliche but, wow, writing 2026 is weird. I missed December’s update, but it is what it is, I was dealing with just headache after headache, and I had no interest. Thoughts before updating: I am going to be up over the…
For the past 15 or 20 years I like to put my goals and objectives down in “ink.” I wish I had the inclination to find them all in the way back machine (maybe that could be a job for this year). Notwithstanding, every year,…
I am just so fucking excited that 2025 is finally over. Financially, this year was a disaster. Some self inflicted, and some events were just a bad roll of the dice. This really, really long year started shitty out of the gate: I am sure…
Thoughts before Calculating: I have absolutely no idea where I am going to land this month. I failed to do the debt update last month so I didn’t get a feeling of where I landed. Also, since implementing the buy-write strategy (along with my naked…
A few weeks back I wrote about about buddy talking to me about his newly found investment strategy using a weekly paying ETF and selling covered calls against it. Given the illiquidity of the option market on $ULTY and the lack of implied volatility (those…
Thoughts before calculating: I think I am going to be up slightly this month. I was able to do another tranche of debt moving from consumer to my margin account. Calculating my Net Worth My Family’s Assets While I have several asset categories, I don’t…
Last month while I was away I wrote a post about reinvigorating my financial goal which is simply put to create enough tangible income so that principal doesn’t have to be invaded during retirement. I have said about a thousand times that my favorite asset…
Last month I wrote about moving one of my larger consumer debt to my margin account. I just did the second huge chunk. I am going to mark these off of my spreadsheet as completed. Even though the debt technically exists, it is unlikely to…