2million's Personal Finance Blog

My Journey to Financial Freedom

November 2, 2011

Inpatient Vs Outpatient Hospital Stay

My daughter had been suffering from sleep apnea (a very scary ordeal for a parent) for several months and it had gotten severe enough that we decided to have her tonsils and annoids removed several weeks ago. Lucky the surgery...
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November 7, 2011

October Net Worth Update (+$54,269)

Distracted with our last minute trip planning I was not even aware that October was going to be a particularly strong month. It turns out it was our best month ever in terms of a net worth increase primarily driven...
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November 11, 2011

Mid-Way Point in Our Journey to Financial Freedom

I recently celebrated my 10yr anniversary at my employer and I realized we are roughly halfway through our journey to financial freedom (10 years into a 20 year plan). With our $2 million net worth goal as a guidepost and...
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November 17, 2011

Wrong Name on Airplane Ticket

I started to gather all our reservations, tickets and itinerary for our upcoming transatlantic cruise. While I was gathering everything I discovered our flight from Madrid to Palma de Mallorca had a variant of my wife’s name on the ticket...
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November 21, 2011

Investment Performance October 2011 (+9.88%)

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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November 27, 2011

Black Friday Shopping Highlights

I have little interest in going out and standing in long lines to pick up a few deals on Black Friday. However we did pick up a few deals over the weekend mostly online: $159 GE Front Loading Washer @...
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November 30, 2011

Biggest Cost of Raising A Child

We are 2.5 years into raising our first child. Life has slowly gotten a bit easier as our daughter is now able to do some very basic tasks herself. At first I tried to keep careful watch over our expenses...
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