2million's Personal Finance Blog

My Journey to Financial Freedom

March 2, 2012

How Well Has Our Investment Portfolio Performed?

I've now been closely tracking our investment portfolio on a monthly basis for over 3 years! Its been a lot of work and valuable for me personally as I can see the bigger picture each month. One realization that has...
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March 8, 2012

February 2012 Net Worth Update (+$23,526)

AssetsJan-12Feb-12Change%Cash & Savings $ 27,618.74 $ 29,545.33 $ 1,926.59 6.98%Taxable Brokerage Accts $ 164,890.42 $ 170,312.04 $ 5,421.62 3.29%Roth IRAs $ 86,835.15 $ 90,658.28 $ 3,823.13 4.40%Pre-tax Retirement Accts $ 287,564.04 $ 299,168.34 $ 11,604.30 4.04%Stock Options $ - $...
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March 13, 2012

Why Invest in Rental Property

The real estate investing infomercials of the housing boom suggest that real estate could make you rich - the benefit of real estate being exponential returns of your investment. While I only have a few small real estate investments there...
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March 17, 2012

Home Depot $5 off $50 Coupon

Home Depot has a current promotion to receive a $5 off $50 coupon after you sign up for Home Depot's Garden Club at http://www.homedepotgardenclub.com/register5. I registered and received the coupon in an email within a few hours. I used the...
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March 20, 2012

Free Rita's Italian Ice

Rita's is offering a free Italian Ice today (March 20th) to celebrate the first day of Spring. Its a free regular Italian Ice and they are available from noon to 9pm at all Rita's locations. According to their web site...
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Amazon Coupon

AmazonLocal is supposedly having a $10 gift card coupon for $5 promotion on AmazonLocal today, March 20th. AmazonLocal is another group-buying deal-a-day website service similar to Groupon. Last year LivingSocial ran a similar Amazon promotion and sold over 1.4 million...
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March 21, 2012

Investment Performance February 2012 (+4.68%)

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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