when do I get my adult certificate?
Slowly but surely working towards my goal of $50k by the end of this year 🙂 I’m going to bundle these updates together with the Month in Review posts since I’m already putting my spending report there. It’s not terribly exciting to see a dry summary of my net worth every month (sorry if you’re…
These posts should just be called Aggressive Positivity Reviews because that’s what I’m using them for. It’s easy to get lost in the days and miss all the joys and privileges that our first-world lives afford us. You’ll see that a lot of the good things are not ‘big’ events. But that’s the secret! If…
You’ll notice it’s clearly not April, but hey, #lifehappens. Tax returns came and went, I had some surprise costs, and still managed to increase my net worth, woohoo! Given that I have about 5 months worth of pay still coming in I’m right on track to break over $50,000 net worth by the end of…
I’m progressing nicely towards my goal of having over $50k in net worth by the end of this year. The numbers make it look like I’ll reach it in just a few months but there are taxes and exchange costs that will come out. Canada and China changed their tax rules recently and I’m very…
Took a month-long vacation in January (China, Vietnam, and Japan) and you can see the corresponding dip in my net worth haha. The tax forms from work are also late so there’s about $5000 extra in my Chinese bank account I didn’t factor into my calculations. Should be around $28k if we add in the…
Excluding material assets, my net worth is just over $25k. I’ll do a monthly net worth review of all my accounts as part of my financial goals for this year. I have a plan to retire before I hit 40* so this is as good a time as any to start tracking my progress. In…