Category Archives: Personal Situation

August 2011 Net Worth Update Look Where I Came From Edition

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In January of 2011 I started tracking my net worth, but I wasn’t comfortable putting the number out there, so I came up with a system where I calculated my net worth and made that number a zero.  This way I can share my gains and loses.  Thankfully since January I have only  had gains…

Half Way Through 2011 Reviewing my Goals and Objectives

I religiously check out all the blogs on my blogroll and today I came across an article that really caught my attention by Crystal who writes over at Budgeting in The Fun Stuff.   It wasn’t a breakthrough in Personal Finance or a new tax code, rather it was her post holding herself accountable to her…

July 2011 Net Worth Update–Great Month Edition

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Usually I combine my net worth updates with some sort small complaint I have, but June was an amazing month for me both personally and financially.  In June 2011: My son was Baptized The Wife turned 31 The Wife and I had our 3 year anniversary Paid off my Auto Loan (one of my objectives…

My First Father’s Day Weekend, Thanks and LoveDrop

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This past weekend as a busy weekend!  Starting Thursday The Wife’s family, started coming into town for The Son’s Christening.  I think I have mentioned it before, but I am Greek Orthodox (No, I don’t speak the language but wish I did AND No, I don’t know what the hell they are doing over there). …

I am Being Forced to Leave My Favorite Online Discount Brokers

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I was pretty annoyed when I received notice at work that I had to shut all investment accounts that were not with very specific broker dealers.  The list did not include my largely ignored account with Tradeking nor my favorite account, Sharebuilder which houses my Perpetual Income Machine.  As a reminder for everyone, I work…

June 2011 Net Worth Update

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This past month was a pretty good month for Evan’s household.  I received my tax refund and my side businesses really took off towards the end of the month.  I will fully admit that this month my partner rocked it out – most months we are about even on revenue but in May he killed…