Despite not having a job for four solid months this year (and spending $20k on travel during that time), with the stock market’s latest performance my net worth is still up significantly. I realize what goes up must come down, but for now I’m enjoying seeing a higher net worth than I expected given how the job situation has gone down this year, and my not-so-frugal global travels.
It’s a little upsetting that if I hadn’t taken the trips and if I was able to obtain a job sooner, my net worth would be much higher — but my goal was always to close 2017 with $500k in net worth, and I’m really happy that I likely will accomplish that, barring any crazy stock market crash.
I do owe my husband a lot of money (we keep our accounts separate) but he’s a good lender with really great rates (no interest, just hugs.) 🙂
October spending definitely was high, given all the traveling. But I’m hoping for Nov and December expenses will be significantly reduced. I am taking one weekend trip but otherwise it should be a relatively cheap month. Here’s how October played out:
*note – believe it or not, this is my portion of monthly spend only. My husband has a separate budget, including his portion of the rent.
- TOTAL SPEND: $7640
- Home – $1400 (rent)
- Auto & Transport – $621 (car detailing, new battery, gas)
- Bills & Utilities – $331 (accidentally had international call for $75)
- Entertainment – $154 (concert, netflix, etc)
- Food & Dining – $583 (only half of month when not traveling)
- Health & Fitness – $930 (infertility treatment, glasses)
- Shopping – $1280 (new clothes for job, prob returning some)
- Travel – $2234 (last part of honeymoon)
- Other – $107
Obviously, I can’t spend $7640 each month!
Spend Goals for November:
- TOTAL SPEND: $4400
- Home – $1400 (rent)
- Auto & Transport – $300 (gas)
- Bills & Utilities – $200
- Entertainment – $200
- Food & Dining – $800
- Health & Fitness – $1000 (infertility treatment costs)
- Shopping – $200
- Travel – $200
- Other – $100
- (Not included – investments ~$3000)
Wow that’s amazing! Congrats on the almost exponential looking increase 🙂 you’ve probably already shared this somewhere on your blog, but how to you split expenses with your husband?
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I should write a post on this – but it’s nothing complicated. We split food, rent, infertility costs and household bills/furniture 50/50. Everything else we pay for ourselves. It seems to work so far.
Woot, congrats on the half-mil!