My son opened his School Savings account with $2.87. He enjoyed making his first deposit to that account.
I blew $8.00 on gasoline today. At least it was in cash, and at least it was at $2.98/gallon. And it will last me probably 150 miles. Paying $0.053/mile isn't terrible, is it? It'll last me probably five weeks too, if the weather returns to its usual dark, wet and cold.
Our insulation will be more expensive than originally estimated, on account of an ancient ceiling fan in the kitchen. Sigh.
Thanks to inflation I am not interested in paying off my mortgage early.
Putting off "finance chat" leads to "finance showdown." Both my spouse and I have inactive retirement and trading accounts, and we can't be comfortably passive about our money anymore. We simply have too many goals and not enough money to go around. I am gathering account statements and making a monthly tally tonight, so if I die from vehicular homicide, my surviving spouse will have half a clue where money is.
I'm sorry this is a dull post. But it is not convoluted and it is not panicky. That's the best I can do right now.
I suffer most from impatience.
October 30th, 2007 at 01:27 pm
October 30th, 2007 at 07:55 pm
October 30th, 2007 at 08:04 pm
How do people distribute monies across fifteen accounts?
I have two active trading accounts with only $200 or so in each. The inertia of having lacklustre or no investments in them makes me chafe.
I had some success getting my spouse to activate the Roth IRA he's had for four years: I gave him a supereasy catchall investment, VTSMX, to invest in.
October 30th, 2007 at 09:04 pm
Don't apologize for your post! As a journal its telling you something.
October 31st, 2007 at 07:31 am