Another good month for my net worth! Up 2.55%. This month, it was all due to my investment accounts, which are continuing to bounce back. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
Of course, I did also invest a bit of money this month, which meant a transfer from cash accounts to investment accounts, but my cash accounts did take a bit of a dip. Not unsurprising, as I went on vacation and had planned for some nice (expensive) dinners out, and I decided to finally take the leap and replace my old computer before it well and truly died.
I have planned for May to be a “spend less” month, so my cash accounts should continue to grow.
I have to admit, I’m enjoying this upward trend.
Megan is a 40-something government employee in the Washington, DC area. She got interested in Personal Finance when she got out of college and realized that her paycheck wasn’t going to go as far as she had hoped. Since starting this blog, she has managed to buy a house and make a solid start on her retirement goals, and hopes to help others do the same. Here is her story:
In 2007, I was a gainfully employed 20-something with no debt but not a lot of knowledge about personal finance. It was a co-worker’s comment about Roth IRAs that sent me to the internet, searching for information. It was then that I realized that I really didn’t know a whole lot about personal finance and that my current financial situation was due a lot to inherent frugal tendencies, generous family members, a fear of debt, and good luck. While that was working for me, clearly I needed a better plan.
While I had no debt, I was also pretty much living paycheck to paycheck and not worrying about going over budget (I say this as if I had a real budget) because I had an emergency fund set aside to cover any overages.
Except that’s not what an emergency fund is for.
So I did a lot of research, read a lot of blogs, and decided that I needed a plan. I needed to budget. I needed to know what I was spending my money on. I needed to prepare for the future.
I decided to create a blog not only to make myself accountable to others but also to share the knowledge that I gained along the way. I’ve learned so much from my fellow bloggers, and I hope that my readers can find something useful in what I have to share as well.
Yes, my accounts are up too. Lets hope this trend keeps up. It has a long way to go.
I hope your next worth continues to go up. I have been playing the CashFlow 101 Game by Robert Kyosaki twice in the last two months. It has really inspired me to cut down my expenses. But I can already tell that I need to cut down on the amount that I am eating out. That’s my one Achilles Heel.