2million's Personal Finance Blog

My Journey to Financial Freedom

July 2, 2008

Investment Performance June 2008 (-8.55%)

This is an ongoing monthly update on how our equity investments are performing. Please see this background on the investment tool I developed and how I am using it to track our performance against a benchmark to measure our progress...
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July 4, 2008

Localizing in China - A Sign of the Times?

I recently had a coworker from the US localize in China. He is the first in our organization - someone from the US who decided that he would benefit more by quitting the US organization and hiring into the China...
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July 7, 2008

June 2008 Net Worth Update (-$20,122)

What a swing - we went from the best net worth gain ever last month to knocking the socks off the worst month ever for us back in January 2005 where my net worth declined -$1,903. Its hard for me...
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July 9, 2008

House Hunting Picking Up Steam For Us

Well, my wife and I have started to spending more time looking for our new home. This has kind of been on hold since we were overseas, but our housing circumstancs are changing so that we need to find a...
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July 11, 2008

A Reminder About How "Stuff" Costs Us

I have always described myself as a non-material guy - after all I pride myself on living on less back home and avoid buying "stuff" as much as possible. It allows me to save and invest more of my income....
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July 14, 2008

Rationalizing The House That Got Away

My wife and I just went through one of those roller coaster weeks in our house hunting search. We had a house on our radar screen that was out of our price range, but got drastically reduced. It was just...
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July 15, 2008

Free Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb

Here is an offer for a free compact fluorescent light bulb from The Million Lights Project. They are giving away 1 million CFLs as a project to raise awareness of how tranditoinal incandescent light bulbs contribute to global warming. Regardless...
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July 21, 2008

Even China Has Bargain Bins for Expats

When my wife and I first arrived in China for our assignment our priority was adjusting. I knew it was going to be a big change for both of us and whatever we could do to make the transition easier...
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July 31, 2008

Borrowing from Employer to Buy Company Stock

A family member recently started a new job and told me about a benefit the company offers to buy company stock that I hadn't heard of before. He is allowed to take out a company loan (min $10,000 in $2,500...
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