I recently discovered I have about $3500 in stock shares I didn't know still existed. (They were gifts from relatives when I was growing up, and I thought they had been spent on my college education. Most of them had, but a few didn't, and they'd been sitting there reinvesting in the interim.)
I've been planning to dump them in with our other index fund investments, but I've gotten caught up in tracking them, trying to pull the trigger at a good time, first waiting for the quarterly dividend, then tracking the stock price, etc. Essentially, I need a face-punch so that I stop messing around with these relatively small fluctuations so I can get more out of where most of our money is working for us...right?
Additionally, I paid graduate school tuition this year so it seems like this would be a good year to make the move.
Thoughts? I'm very likely overthinking this. It's what I do.