Not exactly the best start to 2010, but it was at least in the right direction. I've made plans to see continued gains in net worth this year, and hopefully those gains will be more evident in the upcoming months.

I'm a little late in getting this posted, but the bottom line is that we had a great month in December and a great year overall. We hope to keep it going in 2010.

Back in August we set a record for the largest increase in a month with a gain of $7,165 and we managed to beat that this month with a gain of $7,543. It's been a really great year for us, and we're loving how the gains just keep growing and growing. What a difference from last year. We can't always expect the market to be recovering from a huge losses, so market gains won't always be like this, but keeping your mind focused on your finances definitely gets results. Another Mileston...

The stock market struggled over the last part of the month, so it's not the big gains we've seen over the past few months, but as long as we continue to move in the right direction, we'll be happy.

We can't complain about how well things have been going for us. Five out of the last 6 months have provided us a gain of more than $5,500. As you can see, we hit the 100k mark last month, and in the following month we managed to cross the 110k mark. It's a nice change of pace after taking more than a year to get from 80k to 90k. A lot of the big gains are due to the recovering economy, but at least we feel like we're on the right track, and we're going to enjoy the progress while we ca...

August was another great month for us. In fact, unexpectedly, it was the best month we've ever had. It beat December of 2008's net worth increase by about $20. Not only that, but we hit the major milestone of a 6 figure net worth. w00t! We're 10% of the way to our goal of 1 million dollars. After the dismal performance in 2008 it feels nice to have the gains coming fast and furious. It only took 3 months to reach the latest milestone: Aug ‘09 – $100k (3 months) May ‘09 – $90...

I'm sure we aren't the only ones enjoying the impact of a rising stock market. It left us with one of our best months ever, and super close to a big milestone. If things go according to plan, there's no reason we shouldn't hit it in August.

May was another good month for us, especially when you consider that it includes our trip to Europe where we spent a lot of money. We hit the $90k milestone for the first time. It's an obvious indicator of how the "tough economic times" affected our net worth because we had been consistently hitting $10k milestones every 4 to 5 months, but this one took 13 months as you can see below. May '09 - $90k (13 months) Apr. ‘08 - $80k (5 months) Nov. ‘07 - $70k (4 months) Jul. ‘07 - $...