2million's Personal Finance Blog

My Journey to Financial Freedom

December 1, 2011

Free Money for your Holiday Shopping

Here are a couple sweet promotions to help offset some of your holiday shopping this season: $10 Giftcard for Spending $50 or more at Target - we buy our groceries at a local SuperTarget so we'll likely be stocking up...
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December 5, 2011

Thoughts Midway Through Transatlantic Journey

We should do this more often – life is too short to not get out and explore on a regular basis. I'm realizing I've been stuck in a comfort zone doing the same old thing for too long. Despite my...
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December 12, 2011

November 2011 Net Worth Update (-$12,639)

It was no surprise that there was some pullback in our net worth value after a record setting gain in our October net worth. Assets Oct-11 Nov-11 Change % Cash & Savings $ 22,483.16 $ 22,960.53 $ 477.37 2.12% Taxable...
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December 16, 2011

Transatlantic Cruise Cost Summary

Here is a summary breakdown of our total trip expenses from our transatlantic journey. Including travel days, we spent 21 days on our journey: Major Travel Components USD Expense Hotels $ 74.43 Cruise (including tips) $ 1,103.66 Flights $ 952.92...
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December 19, 2011

More Savings on our Transatlantic Cruise

I usually find it valuable after a big expense like our recent transatlantic cruise to reflect on the value of our expenses and if there are areas where we might be able to do slightly better the next time. A...
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December 23, 2011

Investment Performance November 2011 (-0.39%)

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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Year End Tax Harvesting

I always end up waiting until the last minute, and this year is no exception. I took a quick scan of my portfolio yesterday and decided to sell a couple holding that we had significant paper loss on to harvest...
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