Happy New Year!  Financially, 2016 was a strong year for us, hitting four of our five financial goals for the year.  It was especially good considering my wife did not start her current job until the end of February 2016 and I was laid off in October 2016.  I will be posting our 2017 financial goals shortly. 1) Pass both our 2016 and 2017 Net Worth Goals - SUCCESS We were blessed to sell our last home for nearly $700K this past summer (only owed $350K on the mortgage).  This helped us absolutely Read more [...]

Thanks to a large quarterly bonus that my wife received today, we were able to pass our net worth milestone of $510,000!    We passed our previous net worth milestone of $500,000 last month.

Our net worth is currently $511,242.83.  I will update our chart on the left at the end of the month.

We hope to hit our next net worth milestone of $520,000 by February.

We just passed our net worth milestone of $500,000!  I can’t believe we’re half-millionaires!  LOL!  We passed our previous net worth milestone of $490,000 in July.

Our net worth is currently $500,112.59.  I will update our chart on the left at the end of the month.

We hope to hit our next net worth milestone of $510,000 by next month (thanks to wife’s large quarterly bonus).

We just passed our net worth milestone of $480,000!  We passed our previous net worth milestone of $470,000 last month.

Our net worth is currently $482,626.70.  I will update our chart on the left at the end of the month.

We hope to hit our next net worth milestone of $490,000 by September.  As always, God willing.

We feel blessed to have experienced our largest net worth increase to date.  We just passed the net worth milestone of $470,000, a ~$130K increase in our net worth.  We passed our previous net worth milestone of $340,000 in April. The massive increase was due to selling our home that we owed ~$353K on for $685K; a huge gain in the 4 years that we have owned it.  We purchased a larger, nicer home in a lower cost of living area nearby for $465K.  Since we put a large down payment on Read more [...]

We passed our 2016 net worth goal of $343,700 today.  Our current net worth is $344,243.

Now we can start working towards our 2017 net worth goal of $395,200!

We just passed our net worth milestone of $340,000.  We passed our previous net worth milestone of $330,000 in December.  We thought we would hit 340K in January but it took a few extra months:)

Our net worth is currently $340,385.78. I will update our chart on the left at the end of the month.

We hope to hit our next net worth milestone of $350,000 by June or July.  God willing.

I hope everyone’s new year is off to a great start!   We hit three out of five of our 2015 financial goals and hope to have better luck reaching our 2016 financial goals listed below. 1) Pass both our 2016 and 2017 Net Worth Goals We finished 2015 with a net worth of $331,113, meaning we are roughly $12K short of our 2106 net worth goal of $343,700. God willing, we should easily reach that goal and once we do, we’ll shoot for hitting our 2017 net worth goal of $395,200 one year early. My Read more [...]

I can't believe 2016 is hear already.  Below are the results of the 2015 financial goals that we set for ourselves 12 months ago. As you can see, it’s a mixed bag in terms of success and failure. We're excited about what 2016 will bring.  I’ll be posting our 2016 financial goals soon. 1) Pass our 2016 Net Worth Goal 1 year early – FAIL We passed our 2015 net worth goal of $296K one year early so we set a goal to of hitting our 2016 net worth goal of $343K by the end of 2015. We didn’t Read more [...]

Got this one in before the New Year buzzer:)  We passed our net worth milestone of $330,000.  We passed our previous net worth milestone of $310,000 last month.

Our net worth is currently $331,813.98. I will update our chart on the left at the end of the month.

Thanks to a severance package that my wife is receiving, we should hit our next net worth milestone of $340,000 next month!