Today was a busy day … a lot of work, and also a lot of math. I knew that this day would come eventually, but it doesn’t make the numbers any easier to crunch as we try to figure out how Sara can cut back on her hours at work to spend more time at…
Tag: personal finance
May 3, 2016: Piggy Banks Are So 1985…
Tonight I pillaged my son’s piggy bank – because it’s not like he needs the money, anyways. Best case scenario, he ends up putting the coins up his nose, and needless to say I have no desire to have that hospital adventure anytime soon! Besides, I guess that moving them from one place of his to another isn’t really stealing when it…
Apr 8, 2016: One Berkshire
Today I bought my first share of Berkshire Hathaway. Mind you, Berkshire has two classes of its common stock – Class A that runs something like $200,000 a share right now, and Class B that runs, well, less … so just to be clear, I bought Class B… 😛 Still, it was kind of a special purchase for me because…
Apr 2, 2016: Shredded Debt
I finally broke down and bought a shredder – mostly due to a growing stack of credit cards that I’d rather not just cut in half and throw in the trash. The downside is that now after shredding roughly 20 cards, the kitchen smells vaguely of melting plastic. The upside, of course, is that shredding things…
Feb 29, 2016: Investing in the Future
So I just spent the last half hour signing forms to consolidate my stocks into a single brokerage account – what a way to start off the week! I don’t own a lot of stock, mind you. Only two different ones right now, actually… The first is stock in the energy company where my Grandpa worked for his…