2million's Personal Finance Blog

My Journey to Financial Freedom

April 9, 2012

Whats Working Well in our Path to Financial Freedom

I've been slammed at work here recently and unfortunately not been able to make regular updates on the site. I've been eating, sleeping, and living for work. A bit unplanned, but peak periods every once and a while aren't...
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April 11, 2012

March 2012 Net Worth Update (+$22,032)

Highlights for MarchWe like to take advantage of 0% APR balance transfers and other credit card offers for free money. We are actively looking at taking advantage of new credit card arbitrage opportunities. We are close to earning ~$1,000...
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April 16, 2012

Outsourcing to Balance Time

I've posted multiple times about how time poor we feel. My wife and I have struggled with finding a balance with our responsibilities and my guess is many working families struggle with this. I feel its likely a particular challenge...
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April 18, 2012

Investment Performance March 2012 (+2.35%)

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 23, 2012

We Just Earned $1,000 For A Few Hours of Work

My wife and I each recently cashed our $500+ cashback checks from Chase Sapphire for a total of just over $1,000 for opening 2 credit cards and just a few hours of work. In January my wife and I each...
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April 30, 2012

Best Kitchen Time Savings Technique

I have found one very powerful time savings technique that has really paid off for us more than any other in terms of saving us time in the kitchen and still being about to eat really well with our busy...
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