Another month of basically ignoring the blog altogether in favor of doing lots and lots of paid work in my “free time” – let’s see how that worked out!
Change: +$2,119 or +4.39%
May Net Worth TOTAL: $50,334
Well, I’d say over two grand of progress to the ol’ bottom line is good enough!
Like last month, this is mostly just the product of working. Working from home while taking care of a six-month-old baby full time, that is. It is, as you can imagine, more than a little hectic. But I’ve prioritized my time (by not doing lots of things, including blogging) and that has worked out.
Milestone Progress
As I mentioned last month, I just hit a net worth milestone, and I’m excitedly working toward the next one: $61,099 by January 2018. That represents $100,000 in progress from my all-time net worth low back in September of 2009.
I have $10,765 left to go, which would take $1,346 per month ($1,538 if I want to get there by the end of December). That seems very do-able, if I can keep my workload up. It would be really cool to get there by September (and thus have it be $100,000 in 8 years!), but that seems like that’s really pushing it. There’s a limit to how much work I can take on, especially while the baby is so young.
I hate to say it, but… that’s it for this month. I scratched my head trying to find something else to say about this month, but alas. It’s a pretty plain and simple month – though I guess, that’s a good thing! π
If youβd like to see how I stack up against other personal finance bloggers, be sure to check out The Ultimate List of Blogger Net Worths over on the Rockstar Finance directory!
Nice steep growth you have over the last couple of years. Well done! Rooting for you to make that $100.000 overall growth by December already π
congrats on reaching the $50K point in NW. I too have just crossed that path. Never thought I would finally get here.
Wow, congrats. Look at this graph, I see two parts of it: before debt free and after. Isn’t it amazing how faster your net worth has been growing when you don’t have any debt.
Great work! Keep it rolling!
Thank you! Just wanted to make a small correction, though: if you click the graph, you can see the breakdown of my assets and debts, and you will see that I am not actually debt-free. I still have a tiny bit of credit card debt (at a 0% interest rate, so I’m not paying it off more than a month or two early) and a good pile of student loan debt. I am, however, in the positive these days, where my assets outweigh those debts nicely. And it is amazing how much those assets snowball – investments growing and earning dividends really make a difference!