My favorite asset, by a long shot, is my non-qualified dividend fund. The idea that one day I may have truly passive income in the form of dividends is exciting to me. Granted, at this point (and I have been at it for years) it…
One of my main goals for 2024 is getting back to the basics, and there is nothing more basic than figuring out cash reserves and cash flow. My goal for this post is to first define, how much cash I would like as an emergency…
Somehow the year is almost over! For the first time in a really long time, I am actually excited to start up a new year. With the work and career changes I shared recently, I really believe 2024 is going to be different. I’ll go…
It has been a while since I posted on this site. I have sporadically kept up with my own net worth calculations but never posted the results. To be quite honest I have just been so f’n swamped, the last thing I was looking to…
Since January I have been building my dividend ETF positions, but with the year over halfway finished, I have decided to go back to individual stock purchases for the remainder of 2023 (July 1+). There are a couple of reasons, but the main being that…
Over the past few years, I have accumulated a ton of tiny little positions. This may annoy some investors, but it actually doesn’t really bother me. They have been accumulated from my dividend screening process which changes year over year. While I made a conscious…
I had three goals for 2023 with regards to my family’s cash flow. They were to figure out my monthly savings schedule, figure out how much of my cash flow is going to debt servicing, and lastly, a full audit of my monthly subscriptions. Last…
One of my goals this year was to get a rehandle on the simple topic of cash flow. For me, this breaks down into three simple subjects: To be frank, the idea of figuring out my automatic savings seems like the easiest of those threes…
I’m pretty pissed at myself as I start to write this post. How the hell did another month go by without accomplishing any part of my 2023 goal of getting control over my cash flow? Thoughts before Calculating: I am pretty sure this is going to…
I can’t believe we are a month into the new year already. January absolutely flew. I am writing this post from a hotel room with my daughter pumped to go skiing in the morning! For the first time in months, if not longer, I looked…