We didn’t have any of the major changes this year that we had in 2013. We kept on working on the house, built of the garden, took a nice long vacation to Rio, and enjoyed time with friends. Our savings, which are largely on auto-pilot, kept building. What we got right: Automatic savings –Everything below happens each month without me …
Millenial Money – Book Review and Notes
I recently finished Patrick O’Shaughnessy‘s book, Millennial Money. who also has a great blog over at Millennial Invest. I really enjoyed the book. It’s good to hear an investment philosophy specifically geared toward the under 30 crowd. There wasn’t a lot of groundbreaking information, but it was a very solid primer on all the advantages that youth conveys to the …
Craiglist for the Win
I continue to constantly sing the praises of craigslist for the frugal and value minded. As I mentioned in this post, I’ve pretty much outfitted my entire house with 2nd hand furniture, that is essentially brand new, for pennies on the dollar of new items. In our new house, the upstairs has the master bedroom, as well as a small …
Quarterly 401k Review
I try to sit down quarterly and review my current asset allocation, portfolio value, how each fund is performing and see if I need to do any rebalancing. I must admit that I found I was doing several things for the past year, that in retrospect were not very smart. I initially spread my investments across an allocation of international, …
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