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Re: Net worth decrease 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1300 on: August 31, 2020, 10:25:58 PM »
This year has been a wild ride. And it ain't over, yet.

LNW since 2015 --

(I consider the blue line my 'real' number. The red is just phantom money until I convert it to the blue.)

That's incredible amber! Major congrats on your progress. I love your chart.

Aww, gee, thanks! :) Making that was my, ahem, weekend project. (WHO YOU CALLIN' A NERD, EH??!)

Also, your DH sounds exactly like my SO, who also hoards cash and thinks disaster is lurking around every corner, LOL. But whenever I start getting annoyed, I just think: "Well, better that, than the alternative -- a cash spender who thinks they're invincible," right?

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Re: Net worth increase 2018 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1301 on: September 02, 2020, 07:21:09 PM »
I found MMM in late 2012 and started tracking things seriously in Mint soon after.

Jan 2013: ~250k
Oct 2017: ~720k

Dec 2018: ~818k.  Down about 80k from September but I'll take it!  My wife's accounts are not included here and she had a great year with some work stock and cash bonuses.

I have felt like I was just treading water this year with some expenditures ratcheting up.  Good to look at this and realize how fortunate we really are.  I still need to stop eating out so damn much!

I was just thinking about this thread and couldn't remember my old numbers, so I came back to look it up and post again.  This has been an interesting year, but we are (still) stupidly fortunate.  I joined the 2 comma club in the TSP last week, and overall:
Sep 2020: ~$1.24M. 
This may be the first year where our overall good fortune leaves me feeling nervous like a French aristocrat shortly before the revolution: the world's going to hell in a handbasket, and we're doing better than ever.. who do I even tell?  Mostly joking...mostly.

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Re: Net worth decrease 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1302 on: September 03, 2020, 09:09:50 PM »
Looks like the "financial press" is at it again. The SP500 goes down 3.5% and they are losing their minds about some impending catastrophe. Nevermind it's higher than pretty much any time ever except the last week.

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Re: Net worth decrease 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1303 on: September 04, 2020, 06:02:47 AM »
Looks like the "financial press" is at it again. The SP500 goes down 3.5% and they are losing their minds about some impending catastrophe. Nevermind it's higher than pretty much any time ever except the last week.
I'm glad it's down, right now it's insanely high and it's been worrying me.

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Re: Net worth increase 2018 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1304 on: September 05, 2020, 09:52:48 AM »

This may be the first year where our overall good fortune leaves me feeling nervous like a French aristocrat shortly before the revolution: the world's going to hell in a handbasket, and we're doing better than ever.. who do I even tell?  Mostly joking...mostly.

Totally! I feel perversely relieved whenever the stock market goes down. The disconnect between my investments and the more generalized economic suffering is really getting to me.

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Re: Net worth decrease 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1305 on: September 25, 2020, 02:48:44 PM »
My progress for the year.

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Re: Net worth increase 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1306 on: October 01, 2020, 06:30:11 AM »
Quietly just gonna revert the topic thread title back to increase for 2020. I’m gonna finish the year +$200k assuming markets stay flat from here.

Proof positive that the financial world is totally disconnected from reality.

I can see the merits of that comment about being French just before the guillotine drops.... something nasty should have happened by now.

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Re: Net worth increase 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1307 on: November 12, 2020, 05:08:03 PM »
Quietly just gonna revert the topic thread title back to increase for 2020. I’m gonna finish the year +$200k assuming markets stay flat from here.

Proof positive that the financial world is totally disconnected from reality.

I can see the merits of that comment about being French just before the guillotine drops.... something nasty should have happened by now.

Good call! Lol

So far our NW is up around 32% YTD or 182k... Buying the dip has never been more rewarding than this year for our NW growth :)

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Re: Net worth increase 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1308 on: November 12, 2020, 05:19:18 PM »
I am at a personal high NW (I am retired so now longer in accumulation phase).

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Re: Net worth increase 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1309 on: November 13, 2020, 01:13:38 PM »
Up 44% this year so far. Most of that has been contributions. Managed to save about $30k during my deployment and then another $10k or so of growth. Now that I'm firmly over the $100k mark starting to see growth making more of a difference than contributions.

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Re: Net worth increase 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1310 on: November 13, 2020, 01:20:01 PM »
Unless the market shits the bed between now and New Year's, I should have gone from ~$91k to ~$146k.  That's about 60%, which seems huge, but I went from $49k to $91k in 2019, so it's a smaller percentage gain than last year. 

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Re: Net worth increase 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1311 on: November 14, 2020, 02:02:12 AM »
Its weird, I keep spending money (car, curtains, appliances) but my NW keeps going up. Its uncomfortable and feels ominous.

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Re: Net worth increase 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1312 on: November 14, 2020, 06:21:52 PM »
We learned about retiring early last October when our NW was at 12k. We then decided to go all in on our FIRE journey and today our NW is 123k. We're up 86k so far in 2020. We'd hoped to be up 100k by the end of the year and we would have easily done it if we hadn't needed to replace our roof. But our projected NW increase for 2020 should be around 95k which we're still super happy with!
I remember when we began a year ago and feeling so crap about our 12k NW. So many people that I read about were in the hundred k's. But now we're there too! And we'll keep on staching :)

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Re: Net worth increase 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1313 on: November 14, 2020, 06:36:34 PM »
Despite regular expenses like house payments, utilities, insurance, and groceries, I'm up 60k for 2020, which is almost my gross salary! Started at 132k and currently at 192k, so that's a 45% increase so far. And that is with making house payments, utilities/insurance, groceries, etc.

It doesn't *feel* like my NW has increased that much because
1) I have not submitted to lifestyle inflation,
2) I was close to 200k before a big DP for our house in '19, and
3) it's all tied up in retirement accounts that I don't plan on touching/converting for another 10+ years.

Still, knowing that I'm almost 20% FI is exciting! I hear it gets closer faster and faster. For my mental health's sake, I really hope that's true. It's taken a lot of my energy to get to this point.

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Re: Net worth increase 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1314 on: November 22, 2020, 10:32:52 PM »
It's so funny how this thread starts back up earlier and earlier each year. I'll check back in a month. :)

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Re: Net worth increase 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1315 on: November 24, 2020, 08:15:14 PM »
Our net worth is up 25% from 1/1/20. This seems nuts given that our household income is down 30% compared to last year due to COVID.

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Re: Net worth increase 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1316 on: November 25, 2020, 09:48:59 AM »
Including retirement contributions, NW is up $77k for the year.

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Re: Net worth increase 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1317 on: November 29, 2020, 10:22:54 PM »
Our investment account which is mostly Index funds went from $303,564 to $396,197.
Out total NW went from $984,249 to $1,100,106.
The extra $30K+ not from investments came from 1 rental, loan and $12k of equities from paying down our primary home. I got furloughed and then lay-off from a $120k job since late March.
Our investments are 100% Indexes right now and like others, I feel a guillotine is about to drop.

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Re: Net worth increase 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1318 on: November 30, 2020, 06:24:41 AM »
Our net worth has increased by 26% in the past 12 months. It’s a bit heady.

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« Reply #1319 on: November 30, 2020, 06:54:21 AM »
We're "only" up 17% for net worth.

But that includes buying a house and the way I calculate it is that I put the house at something like 92% of purchase price in our net worth calculations, to account for commissions.

Overall investment amounts are up 20% including growth and additional contributions which is what matters, I guess.

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« Reply #1320 on: December 02, 2020, 10:01:54 AM »
The S&P is "only" up 13.4% YTD.  I'm guessing a lot of the increases people are posting are from contributions, which is pretty awesome.

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« Reply #1321 on: December 02, 2020, 10:07:00 AM »
Our investment account which is mostly Index funds went from $303,564 to $396,197.
Out total NW went from $984,249 to $1,100,106.
The extra $30K+ not from investments came from 1 rental, loan and $12k of equities from paying down our primary home. I got furloughed and then lay-off from a $120k job since late March.
Our investments are 100% Indexes right now and like others, I feel a guillotine is about to drop.

I'm guessing you mean 100% stock indexes, as there are index funds for all sorts of non-equity investment vehicles.  I sometimes feel like I'm the only one on the forum beating this drum, but you need to settle on an asset allocation that lets you sleep at night.  100% stocks has historically been the highest return AA, but also the most volatile.  If you can answer in your heart of hearts "I will not panic if my investments drop by 50% and take 18 months to recover" then a 100% stock AA may be for you.  But your risk tolerance isn't truly stress tested until you've experienced the worst the stock market has to offer.

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« Reply #1322 on: December 02, 2020, 12:59:43 PM »
The S&P is "only" up 13.4% YTD.  I'm guessing a lot of the increases people are posting are from contributions, which is pretty awesome.

Nope. We're up 10.13% for the year, with a 78/22% portfolio, EXCLUDING contributions.

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« Reply #1323 on: December 02, 2020, 08:10:50 PM »
The S&P is "only" up 13.4% YTD.  I'm guessing a lot of the increases people are posting are from contributions, which is pretty awesome.

Nope. We're up 10.13% for the year, with a 78/22% portfolio, EXCLUDING contributions.

Why would you exclude contributions from your net worth calculation?  You’re talking about your personal rate of return.

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« Reply #1324 on: December 02, 2020, 11:41:56 PM »
Our investment account which is mostly Index funds went from $303,564 to $396,197.
Out total NW went from $984,249 to $1,100,106.
The extra $30K+ not from investments came from 1 rental, loan and $12k of equities from paying down our primary home. I got furloughed and then lay-off from a $120k job since late March.
Our investments are 100% Indexes right now and like others, I feel a guillotine is about to drop.

I'm guessing you mean 100% stock indexes, as there are index funds for all sorts of non-equity investment vehicles.  I sometimes feel like I'm the only one on the forum beating this drum, but you need to settle on an asset allocation that lets you sleep at night.  100% stocks has historically been the highest return AA, but also the most volatile.  If you can answer in your heart of hearts "I will not panic if my investments drop by 50% and take 18 months to recover" then a 100% stock AA may be for you.  But your risk tolerance isn't truly stress tested until you've experienced the worst the stock market has to offer.

I agree. If you feel like something is going to drop on you, then you need to have less volatility. Other than the spring blip, this isn't even that crazy volatility, historically. Look at https://www.macrotrends.net/2526/sp-500-historical-annual-returns  and https://www.macrotrends.net/2603/vix-volatility-index-historical-chart

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Re: Net worth increase 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1325 on: December 02, 2020, 11:58:27 PM »
Our investment account which is mostly Index funds went from $303,564 to $396,197.
Out total NW went from $984,249 to $1,100,106.
The extra $30K+ not from investments came from 1 rental, loan and $12k of equities from paying down our primary home. I got furloughed and then lay-off from a $120k job since late March.
Our investments are 100% Indexes right now and like others, I feel a guillotine is about to drop.

I'm guessing you mean 100% stock indexes, as there are index funds for all sorts of non-equity investment vehicles.  I sometimes feel like I'm the only one on the forum beating this drum, but you need to settle on an asset allocation that lets you sleep at night.  100% stocks has historically been the highest return AA, but also the most volatile.  If you can answer in your heart of hearts "I will not panic if my investments drop by 50% and take 18 months to recover" then a 100% stock AA may be for you.  But your risk tolerance isn't truly stress tested until you've experienced the worst the stock market has to offer.

Yeah Index funds mostly VFIAX and VTSAX.
I've been shuffling the funds more often this year than past years.
Pretty happy with the returns so far this year so just the past couple of days, I've been moving to funds out.
Just moved $60k into bonds so its 85/15 right now. I will probably end up 60/40 by Dec 21st when Tesla is added to the SP500. Curious to see what will happened.

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« Reply #1326 on: December 03, 2020, 12:28:43 AM »
The S&P is "only" up 13.4% YTD.  I'm guessing a lot of the increases people are posting are from contributions, which is pretty awesome.

Nope. We're up 10.13% for the year, with a 78/22% portfolio, EXCLUDING contributions.

Why would you exclude contributions from your net worth calculation?  You’re talking about your personal rate of return.

I don't exclude contributions from net worth calcs. I *do* exclude them when calculating investment growth. I am not a Beardstown Lady.

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« Reply #1327 on: December 14, 2020, 10:40:14 AM »
Are up 20% from $absurd to $absurd + 20%. If you exclude the cost of our nanny, which I'd argue you should, we are well past our financial independence mark.

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« Reply #1328 on: December 16, 2020, 06:47:00 AM »
At the start of the year we had about 500K. I was so happy to make the half mil mark. Then covid and it dropped like a stone and I stopped checking it since the balance was in the low 400s and not sure how low it went. But we kept up our contributions and I scrapped together everything I could to invest even more. With our contributions to our tsp and 403b (no match on that--grr) we now have about 650K!!! We only put in about 40K over the last year but we're up more than 200K!

When the market drops dh doesn't want to invest and says we should be careful to have cash handy. I scape together everything I can and buy more. It always pays off.

And since going MMM a few years ago, we've doubled our NW, live well within our means, contribute the max to retirement funds and pay for two state tuitions.  I don't know what we would have done now with the kids in college if we hadn't found MMM! Thank you all so much!

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« Reply #1329 on: December 16, 2020, 09:04:37 AM »
Not including gf's $, my NW is up about 26% this year, or a gain of about $60k.  Currently 95/5: index funds/bond funds.  Started rebalancing this year and will make an adjustment toward bonds next year.

Also started playing around with brokerage since I've maxed non-taxable accounts.  Three weeks ago, started with $10k, up to about $10.5k in that account just doing very short term stock and options trades.  Learning tons along the way and having fun doing it.

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Re: Net worth increase 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1330 on: December 16, 2020, 12:30:12 PM »
1/1/2020 7.4mm
12/16/2020 9.2mm


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« Reply #1331 on: December 16, 2020, 01:43:30 PM »
1/1/2020 7.4mm
12/16/2020 9.2mm


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« Reply #1332 on: December 16, 2020, 02:07:47 PM »
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« Reply #1333 on: December 16, 2020, 02:40:26 PM »
Hey, Baby Pig!  I see you found that $1M I dropped awhile back.  Thanks for holding onto it.  I'll come over tonight to grab that from ya.

Seriously, though, I hope you're already retired.  That Tesla money?  Bitcoin?  Just wondering.

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« Reply #1334 on: December 16, 2020, 03:00:08 PM »
Our TNW is up 12.3% for the year.  Makes me happy!

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« Reply #1335 on: December 16, 2020, 03:18:15 PM »
Hey, Baby Pig!  I see you found that $1M I dropped awhile back.  Thanks for holding onto it.  I'll come over tonight to grab that from ya.

Seriously, though, I hope you're already retired.  That Tesla money?  Bitcoin?  Just wondering.
Neither. I only have 4K in BTC. I don’t own Tesla, I mainly mutual funds. Not retired.


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« Reply #1336 on: December 16, 2020, 03:23:29 PM »
. . . Not retired.
Out of curiosity, why not?

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« Reply #1337 on: December 16, 2020, 03:48:18 PM »
. . . Not retired.
Out of curiosity, why not?
Kids still in school. I enjoy working, I would be bored and depressed if I were retired. After about a month I think I would be ready to get back to work. I’m in my 40s


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« Reply #1338 on: December 16, 2020, 06:08:49 PM »
. . . Not retired.
Out of curiosity, why not?
Kids still in school. I enjoy working, I would be bored and depressed if I were retired. After about a month I think I would be ready to get back to work. I’m in my 40s


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Are you the same guy who was around not long ago before under another username? I believe he was in his 40s and married. He talked about staying at work despite not needing to, IIRC said he had close to 8M?

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« Reply #1339 on: December 16, 2020, 07:00:17 PM »
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« Reply #1340 on: December 17, 2020, 06:39:09 AM »
Nope.


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Oh good, because he went around shitting all over early retirees and basically told everyone here that they're boring because they're not rich enough to do interesting things.
It wasn't a good look.

Welcome to the forums, I personally don't assume you aren't telling the truth about your NW because it's not like it's an unrealistic number, it's just not all that common here, at least not that common for people to share. I'm sure there are a few other 5-10M folks hiding around here who just stay quiet about it.

Congrats on the NW jump in 2020.
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« Reply #1341 on: December 17, 2020, 10:18:28 PM »
12/31/2019 -- $126,169.78  --->  12/31/2020 $214,245.98

Been in 100% VSTAX & continued buying through the corona dip.

$88,076.2 (69.8% NW increase)...wow never bothered to look until I saw this thread. Incredible. Growing strong.

*This includes my investments only.

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« Reply #1342 on: December 18, 2020, 10:21:07 AM »
https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2014/11/11/are-you-giving-the-shaft-to-your-future-self/

For those wondering, the inspiration for this thread way back in 2014 came from that MMM blog post. I really really like that one, resonated well with me about my past self giving my future self a gift.

13-15 years ago I started making life and financial decisions that have got me to present day with no real prospect of having any financial worries or a situation that I couldn't adapt to.

Not having to worry financially about the next 15, 20, 50 years... you can't put a price on that.
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« Reply #1343 on: December 19, 2020, 12:17:57 PM »
Nice rebound at the end of the year.   I had to revisit to see if all the doom and gloom came true for 2020...

 Retirement            Date            Difference
     $51,225           12/31/05   
     $80,038           12/31/06       $28,813
   $106,744           12/31/07       $26,706
   $103,124           12/31/08      -$3,620
   $162,173           12/31/09       $59,049
   $218,666           12/31/10       $56,494
   $249,987           12/31/11       $31,321
   $320,337           12/31/12       $70,349
   $435,650           12/31/13       $115,313
   $518,275           12/31/14       $82,626
   $603,958           12/31/15       $85,683
   $746,482           12/31/16       $142,524
   $979,476           12/31/17       $232,994
$1,148,530           12/04/18       $169,054
$1,395,539           12/06/19       $247,009
$1,606,965*         12/19/20       $211,426*

*Could be as high as $1,707,789 and $312,25 difference, but I can't find the spreadsheet I used to create this tracker and I can't remember exactly what accounts I included/excluded. #mmmproblems   
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Re: Net worth increase 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1344 on: December 19, 2020, 02:59:02 PM »
Our TNW is up $275k this year — not too shabby. About half came from income; the other half from investments.

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Re: Net worth increase 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1345 on: December 19, 2020, 03:27:39 PM »
I try not to pay too much attention to our account balances. However, DH just mentioned that our primary account grew by $10k in one day. This shit works, man. I never earned $10k per month back when I was a working stiff. Keeping my fixed rate mortgage and investing all I could was the ticket. Wowza!

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Re: Net worth increase 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1346 on: December 19, 2020, 06:51:51 PM »
I try not to pay too much attention to our account balances. However, DH just mentioned that our primary account grew by $10k in one day. This shit works, man. I never earned $10k per month back when I was a working stiff. Keeping my fixed rate mortgage and investing all I could was the ticket. Wowza!

And days in the other direction are good opportunities to practice detachment. I think there was a day this year where my balances dropped by about a half-year’s worth of spending. It felt pretty good to realize I could see that drop and not worry (too much!)

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Re: Net worth decrease 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1347 on: December 19, 2020, 08:51:05 PM »
We're fluctuating between $200,000 and $270,000 down from the start of the year.  1% up or down in the S&P 500 index gives roughly a $10K change.  That's handy 'cause I can know about where we are without having to actually check our balances, all I have to do is check the S&P 500 YTD %.

What a difference a few months make.

We're up ~$77,000 since the start of the year.   Our annual passive income is up $24,000 and expenses are down ~$32,000, so we're in a much stronger financial position.   If we stay within budget we no longer need to withdraw anything from our portfolio AND that's with upping our charitable contributions by $12,000 a year.

My only regret is that our country did such a piss-poor job of handling this epidemic, so well over 300,000 people died who shouldn't have, countless others will have long-standing health issues, and many have been financially harmed or ruined.   It's shameful and embarrassing for our country to have done so poorly.

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Re: Net worth increase 2020 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1348 on: December 19, 2020, 11:01:50 PM »
To say we are incredibly fortunate would be an understatement.
All in all 2020 was a pretty great year for us so far financially. Just a matter of sticking to the plan and not panicking.

Net worth
Jan 1, 2020  = 736,000
Dec 19, 2020 = 1,026,000

Up 290, 000 so far.

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Re: Net worth increase 2014 (i.e. the 'present' you give yourself)
« Reply #1349 on: December 20, 2020, 04:35:21 AM »
JAN 2014 - $364k (owned a truck, a garage full of "stuff," investments were fairly conservative and spread across 30 high fee funds. And half that $364k was cash!
DEC 2014 - $458k (sold truck, sold stuff, started Roth IRA for DW, got into Vanguard with a much more aggressive AA, deployed and came close to maxing the extended TSP limit)

DEC 2015 - $525k give or take what happens next week.  This year was fairly straightforward as far as AA and contributions go so my NW increase was pretty much what I put in to it since I had zero growth.

DEC 2016 - $650k. So around a $125k increase, and $72k of that is contributions.

As of 1 Dec, $850k.  $200k increase, $71k in contributions. Compounding for the win.

As of 27 Dec close, $866k after $76k in contributions.  A more or less down year like a lot of folks, but I still ended the year up based on our savings rate.  On a different forum somebody remarked "OMG, I lost $100k in net worth this year...OMG, my net worth is high enough that I have $100k to lose!"  It's definitely a good way of looking at how the market went this year.

As of 28 DEC: $1,208,000. $90,500 in contributions.

Reporting a little early this year. 20 DEC: $1,507,000. $89,000 in contributions.  $1,600,000 is on the higher scale of my FIRE target, and still have three more years until retirement.