2million's Personal Finance Blog

My Journey to Financial Freedom

April 2, 2010

Should Debt Reduction Be Our Focus?

I recently posted on focusing our efforts on debt reduction. The uncertainty of my job plus our constrained cash flow has me focused on paying down debt to improve our monthly free cash. The reality is that interest rates are...
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April 5, 2010

March 2010 Net Worth Update (+$39,805)

Holy cow! March 2010 was a wonderful month as we achieved record breaking net worth gains this month, topping Oct 2007 when my wife and I merged our finances, and May 2008 right at the previous peak of the stock...
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April 7, 2010

Investment Performance March 2010 (+5.88%)

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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April 18, 2010

A Sign the Economy is Improving

Perhaps the most clearest sign for me yet that our economy is starting to pick up is that I was actually approved for a business trip at work to China this month. Since I returned from my assignment in China...
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April 25, 2010

An Updated Snapshot of our Household Debt

Here's a better breakdown of our debt than I typically report in our monthly net worth report. In the past 12 months our debt has improved significantly as we sold my wife' townhouse and focused the majority of our free...
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April 29, 2010

Bought a Lawn Mower in the Past 14 Years? Get up to $75 back

I saw a commercial last night for this class action lawsuit for folks who bought gas powered lawn mowers between Jan 1,1994 and April 12, 2010. The lawsuit claims that mowers were marketed with misleading or false horse-powered claims. If...
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