August 2008 Networth

It looks like the financial markets settled down a bit this past month which was a nice change after two months of pretty significant decreases in our IRA’s.  Also, this past month my work started a 401(k) matching program as well as a new high deductible health insurance plan which included an option of a [...]

July 2008 Financial Ratios

Another fantastic month when it comes to savings.  We have just moved into the basement of some family members who are charging us extremely low rent and I finally have a real job now that I am out of school.  The liquidity ratios are a little bit off since our monthly expenses aren’t fully reflected [...]

July 2008 Spending Report

By looking at the break down of our July spending it is pretty evident that we had a good month .  I guess it helps when rent is only 4% of your monthly income.

Here are a few of the highlights of July…
Rent
We were able to find a great little apartment that is [...]

July 2008 Networth

Once again it was a rough month in the financial markets, but we actually faired pretty well.  As you will see we had an increase of almost 6% in our overall networth, but the main reason for that was the fact that I received a nice bonus at work so out current assets had a [...]

June 2008 Networth

Well I finally decided to do the inevitable and run my numbers for last month. They actually aren’t as bad as I thought they might be. With the S&P down over 8% in the month of June alone I thought my portfolio would really be hit, but I managed to fair pretty well. [...]

June 2008 Financial Ratios

Our savings ratios have been through the roof which has been awesome.  I’m sure that will change once we get into a place after our move, but for now we will continue to put away as much as possible.

June 2008 Spending Report

Here it is. My first edition of the monthly spending report. I also plan on posting the balance sheet, financial ratios, and statement of networth, but I am still working on putting those together so hopefully in the next few days I’ll have something up. I’m trying to figure the best/simplest way [...]

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