In 2016, before this site was born, I sent an email to a financial writer, Dr. Douglas Carlsen, that I’d come across in a few of my wife’s dentistry magazines. As an engineer, you might not be surprised to hear that these magazines weren’t of great interest to me in general. However, I always wanted […]
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The Bridge That Led Us Here
I generally don’t listen to music that’s played on the radio. I used to back when I held the opinion that if something was popular within a given genre, it must be the best. And if it was the best, there was no sense in searching for something better because all the “weeding out” had […]
March 2019 Net Worth
We were fortunate enough to achieve another milestone to close out Q1 of 2019. After reaching a net worth of $200k (again – the first time was in November 2018) in January, we were actually able to cross the $300k threshold at the close of March. It was a relatively uneventful month aside from the […]
February 2019 Net Worth
Ok, let’s get the bad news out of the way. Our net worth increased roughly $10,000 less in February than it did last month. The good news is that was still good enough for our second best month. Ever. All joking aside, for how big of a (relative) bummer the last few months of 2018 […]
Our Student Loan Self-Insurance Plan
As we mentioned in our 2018 annual review, our #1 goal for 2019 is to pay off our remaining student loans once and for all. I never would have thought that would be possible when we were staring down over $320k in student loan debt at the start of 2018. However, we put a huge […]