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It’s finally the end of 2007, where did it go? How did your finances do this year?1. AllFinancialMatters let us know how to rebalance a portfolio come end of year. I don’t have those assets there, but the idea of rebalancing index at end of year makes perfect “cents”.
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To make my goal of having my net worth be $1,000,000USD by 2020 I need to have a plan laid out. Yes it will change through the years, My wife and I will get raises; we won’t get the […]

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Sorry this is a few days late - my Life Insurance statement hadn’t come in the mail yet; yes, the mail.  This is another reason I’m going to dump it.  I like to have everything online at my fingertips and I can’t see this account online yet.
So tt wasn’t too bad of a month across the […]

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So I decided to try out Flexo’s monthly expense template, and it isn’t looking too promising for me this month.  I’m doling out more than I am taking in this month.  Off the top, that sounds like it is bad, but really it isn’t TOO bad.  I figured my cash allowance was high this past […]

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Well, here it is, November 1, 2007 and the first actual comparison I can do as I started last month. A few additions to this version:
1. Adding in the timeshare worth.
2. Wife upped her 401k contribution to 10% making her 401k the biggest jumper at 19.77%
3. Reached over the 100k limit and puts me over […]

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So in perusing a few posts on the M-Network I stumbled across an interesting set of blogs of bad investment decisions:
Single Guy Money
ChristianPF
Lynnae
DoughRoller
Debt-Free Revolution
Plonkee
Pinyo
PaidTwice
LittlebyLittle
I thought I had some good points to contribute, and stories to tell even though I’m nowhere near retirement. I really have had a few bad investment mistakes along the way, and […]

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So one of the biggest steps after deciding that you want to save money is deciding WHERE to put the money? There are so many options out there, and so many different people suggesting places to put it. I’ve actually lurked on dozens of sites that have their own choices on where they put their […]

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I own a timeshare - yes, I am one of “those” people that went to “the talk” when getting into the Cancun, Mexico airport and thought, heck, why not?  I was 23, with my mother (taking her on vacation for her 50th birthday) and we decided we’d go in on it togehter and possibly wrangle […]

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So I refined the ol’ net worth to better reflect and build on my other investments - I think I have a pretty good handle on it now, and I can relate this spreadsheet far better in the weeks, months and years to come. It is really amazing that as bad as the initial -420k […]

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