Gift giving

Ask the Readers: Does your family do gift-giving for adults?

December 1, 2014 by Mr. 1500 Days

Hi there, Mrs. 1500 today. We are back from our epic, Midwest trip, where we hit 5 states in 10 days. We were fortunate to be able to meet up with Kraig from Create My Independence and Eric from No Nonsense Landlord. (Of course, on the day we were to meet up, the older little 1500 took an unprecedented 2-1/2 hour nap, causing me to miss about half of the meeting. Sigh.) We … [Read more...] about Ask the Readers: Does your family do gift-giving for adults?

Ask the Readers: How do you handle Christmas Gifts?

December 2, 2013 by Mr. 1500 Days

Hi there, Mrs. 1500 once again, asking you how you handle Christmas gifts. But first, let's go back to last week, and see if anyone would rent out their house or portion of their house on airbnb.com? Chris from Big Day Coming has no doubts that he is not interested. "...I’d feel like I’d need to lock all my stuff up in storage..." Writing2Reality would look into it more, … [Read more...] about Ask the Readers: How do you handle Christmas Gifts?

My goal was to build a debt-free* 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

2019: Investments only
1/1/19: $1,549,440
2/1/19: $1,649,953
3/1/19: $1,658,864
4/1/19: $1,687,526

2019 gains: $138,086

Overall
Gains: $1,101,483
Net worth**: $2,202,526

*I still have about $100,000 in mortgage debt. My solution was to accumulate enough money to cover this or $1,100,000.

**Includes stuff besides investment portfolio including home, cars, dinosaurs…

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