every little bit

Every Little Bit Helps

August 3, 2013 by Mr. 1500 Days 6 Comments

Hi there, Mrs. 1500 here.A few months ago, I read this article in the finance section of Yahoo.com. (It is from their First Person series, which gives real life accounts of how people have improved their financial state.) To sum up the article, Allison and Joe were living paycheck to paycheck with $7,000 in credit card debt. They could afford little more than the … [Read more...] about Every Little Bit Helps

My goal was to build a portfolio of $1,000,000 by February of 2017; 1500 days from the birth of this blog (January 1, 2013). And hey look, I’ve since retired!

Investments only
1/1/13 (The Start): $586,043
1/1/14 (1 Yr Later): $869,635
1/1/15 (2 Yrs Later): $987,351
1/1/16 (3 Yrs Later): $1,057,961
1/1/17 (4 Yrs Later): $1,257,128
1/1/18 (5 Yrs Later): $1,527,701
1/1/19 (6 Yrs Later): $1,549,440
1/1/20 (7 Yrs Later): $2,035,040*
1/1/21 (8 Yrs Later): $3,379,746**

2021: Investments only
1/1: $3,379,746
2/1: $3,616,567
3/1: $3,532,156
4/1: $3,686,009
5/1: $3,892,234
6/1: $3,787,772
7/1: $3,950,516
8/1: $4,034,920
9/1: $4,194,210

Overall
2021 investment gains: $814,464
Investment gains since 1/1/2013: $3,608,421
Net worth***: $4,344,210

* The big jump between 2019 and 2020 was partly because we bought another home, but kept the previous (much more expensive) one as a rental, so now count it as an investment.

** Tesla.

*** Includes our primary home equity in addition to our investment portfolio.

Finally, we still have about $290,000 in mortgage debt (which I love!). No regrets about the debts!