Savings Report #61 - Hiking & Swimming

Click here to see all of my past Savings Reports and view my interactive net worth chart Go to How To Track Your Savings to check out the Saving Ninja Super Spreadsheet. The US stock market continued to do well in July which saw our finances take another leap forward. I filled up both mine and my wife’s Roth IRA’s at $6500 each. The process to roll them over from traditional IRA’s wasn’t too hard, I did it all within Interactive Brokers. These accounts will act similarly to English ISA’s, growing tax free. ...

August 7, 2023 · 3 min · SavingNinja

Savings Report #60 - Making Cheese & Saving Money

Click here to see all of my past Savings Reports and view my interactive net worth chart Go to How To Track Your Savings to check out the Saving Ninja Super Spreadsheet. This month we added $15,000 after tax cash to our brokerage. I had some extra money lying around from a Swedish tax refund, so I topped up our regular 10k deposit. ...

July 3, 2023 · 5 min · SavingNinja

Savings Report #59 - Moving States and Work Overload

Click here to see all of my past Savings Reports and view my interactive net worth chart Go to How To Track Your Savings to check out the Saving Ninja Super Spreadsheet. So much has happened this month that I’ve been putting off writing this update. I’m so damn tired as well. ...

June 10, 2023 · 5 min · SavingNinja

Savings Report #58 - Letting Agent Dumped Us

Click here to see all of my past Savings Reports and view my interactive net worth chart Go to How To Track Your Savings to check out the Saving Ninja Super Spreadsheet. As we continue to work toward our 2023 goal of investing $100k in 2023, on April 28th, I realized that we’ve crossed a pretty big milestone in net worth. ...

May 5, 2023 · 3 min · SavingNinja

Savings Report #57 - A Home in The Mountains

Click here to see all of my past Savings Reports and view my interactive net worth chart Go to How To Track Your Savings to check out the Saving Ninja Super Spreadsheet. This month saw a little rebound in the stock market, but I’m unsure whether it’s currency fluctuations or actual investments shifts anymore. I contributed my usual $10,000 in our pre-pension accounts; then at the end of March I topped them up with another $6,900. The reason I added this additional contribution is because we’ve finally been approved for a credit card with a reasonable limit ($8000). We can now use the credit card as an emergency fund instead of keeping a lot of cash in current accounts. ...

April 3, 2023 · 3 min · SavingNinja