Blazing a Trail Towards Financial Independence
Welp, it seems like Spring lasted about 2 days. In last month’s post Spring was just arriving, now we’ve gone straight to Summer in no time flat. It’s time for the monthly net worth update. Did our net worth number grow as fast in May as Spring changed to Summer?
[Read more…] about Progress Update 6: 529 Shuffling and Crazy Tenants
Hello May! Happy to see you. Spring has FINALLY Sprung! With the beginning of the growing season upon us has our net worth began to grow again? After a couple down months let’s take a look:
[Read more…] about Progress Update 5: The Green is Back, HSAs & Dying Trees
Back in March, we decided to bite the bullet and transfer our investments from Edward Jones to Vanguard. You can read Part I of this adventure HERE. At the time of that post, we had just initiated the transfers. I wanted to give an update on where things stand and what my thoughts are on the process. [Read more…] about The Great Financial Migration Part II
So, it’s April now. Just like that a quarter of the year gone. Dayum! It is still freezing cold here with snows still expected, so it sure doesn’t feel like April. If this weather won’t change soon, I’ll be mowing the grass in the snow. But enough about the weather… Let’s review the interesting month of March that was.
[Read more…] about Progress Update 4: Backsliding, Caveats & Crazy Graphs
The big news around the Heartland on FIRE household this week is we’ve taken the plunge and decided to move all of our investment funds from Edward Jones over to Vanguard.