Background
Each month I will post an update on my finances to both give you, the reader, some insight into my situation and to give me markers of my progress on my financial journey. My updates include both spending and net worth.
- Spending is divided into joint and individual spending. My husband gets $600 a month and I get $150 a month for our own individual spending as an “allowance” which go into our personal bank accounts. This is filed under “Lifestyle & Services” in our spending summary.
- I don’t include charitable contributions in our numbers below, but we allocate 10% of our post-tax income to this each year.
- Our net worth goal tracked using undisclosed units of money. Our goal is to hit “Financial Equilibrium”, based on Thomas J. Anderson’s book The Value of Debt in Building Wealth. This is fairly close to our FIRE number.
Net Worth
Spending
Monthly Update
Big news of the month is that toddler is officially walking, yay!
Sleep is still blech. Canines are all in, molars on one side have arrived. Now we’re just waiting for molars on the other side. Waiting with bated breath. Hoping once those are in we’ll be sleeping through the night again. One can dream
Financially things are progressing. Good chance we hit our kinda sorta lean-for-us FIRE by end of month. Then we’ll move onto other saving goals. And then, who knows? Retirement maybe? Start my own business? We’ll see how much energy I have in a year or whenever we get all our ducks in a row.
How was your March?