Blazing a Trail Towards Financial Independence
This year seems like an extended episode of the Twilight Zone. Every day something new and extremely weird seems to crop up. Often times things seem to be completely out of sync. Take the stock market for instance: the economy is essentially frozen, millions upon millions are unemployed, people aren’t paying rent and there is an oil price war… yet the market surged upward in April. With that in mind, how did we do?
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If you’ve followed this blog you know we have a rental property and that the tenants were leaving at the end of March. We’ve been debating about whether to keep renting or to sell the place once they have left. In early April, that decision became much simpler.
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Wow. Where to begin? March felt more like a year in and of itself. If it was a roller coaster, we’d have thrown up and been begging to get off… and that was only after the first couple weeks. Truly, the world will be a different place after this month. Putting aside the global pandemic, open ended quarantines, the unprecedented cessation of the economy, and burgeoning unemployment rate, how did our finances do in March?
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February had a wild finish. Lot’s of moving pieces and, of course, the market dropped like a rock. How are we handling the market correction?
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Confused about what constitutes good nutrition? Yeah, me too. My wife and I have been interested in eating healthier and have been reading articles and watching documentaries. In our search to find a consensus, we found there isn’t one. In fact, the more we looked into it, the more questions we had. So I wanted to summarize what we’ve learned and how we’ve tried to piece together a diet.
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It’s time for our first Net Worth Update of the year… wait, the Decade! We made substantial progress in the last few years of the 2010s after wondering in the financial wilderness for the first half. I am excited to see how far we can go with a whole decade (and compounding) to work with.
But first things first… how did we do in January?
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