goals and milestones

2013 New Year’s Resolution – Spring Progress Check

03.22.2013
new year resolutions spring update

Hooray, It’s Spring! I am so happy that winter is coming to a close. We had a mild winter in the Pacific Northwest this year, but I am still very glad that warmer weather is on the way. The year is almost 1/4 over. Time really flies and it’s time to check on my 2013 New Year’s resolutions and see if I’m making any progress. Here we go. Baby RB40 Our goal for 2013 is for him to make a friend. Unfortunately, we are not making much progress here. He plays with other kids when we go to the playground [...]

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You Only Live Once, Right? What You Can Do With This Logic

01.30.2013
you only live once so make the most of it

This following is a guest post from Martin of Studenomics. You only live once. A phrase that’s usually followed by some very careless action. Do you only live once? Is early retirement extreme not an option? What I love about this site is that it explores the possibilities of what can happen if you make the right moves in your youth with your finances. It’s too easy to get caught up with the distractions. It’s okay to do stupid things because you only live once. You got to be dumb because you only have one life to live. Right? Well, [...]

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Building A Dividend Portfolio For Passive Income

01.09.2013
building a dividend portfolio for passive income

One of my financial goals for 2013 is to generate $18,000 from passive income. This isn’t going to be easy because last year we only made $7,742 last year from dividend, rentals, peer to peer lending, and interest. However, the total was pulled down quite a bit by the rentals in 2012. I’m pretty sure 2013 will be better, but it is still a tall order to hit $18,000. Dividend Income Let’s look at dividend income today. In 2012, we generated $6,791 in dividend from our taxable account. For 2013, I’m hoping to generate around $9,000 from dividend. That’s a [...]

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2013 New Year’s Resolutions

12.31.2012
2013 blog new year resolutions

Happy New Year Everyone! 2012 went by so quite quickly, didn’t it? 2012 was a year of changes for us and I think we need to take it a bit easier this year. 2013 will be the year to shore up our finances and gather ourselves. Baby RB40 Let’s start with a goal for Baby RB40. He is almost 2 years old and he doing quite well on all the regular benchmarks. For 2013, we would like him to make a friend. This is quite a difficult goal because it’s hard to meet kids his age in our area now that he isn’t going [...]

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