Money and Finance
It's been a busy and fun week. I've been back to the grind at work now and I can't say I'm all that excited about it. Especially now that my wife is on summer break and has loads of free time. It makes it that much more difficult to be away from her when I know we could be spending lots of time together. After all that's the whole reason we're striving for financial independence. But the good news is that my wife drove down to come and see me yesterday and we got to be together. We're trying to see what will be going on with my work for tonight to decide whether she should stay or not. That's the joy of having a job that can completely screw up plans like that.
After being fairly quiet with my portfolio over the last 1-2 months I've gone on a bit of a buying spree. Is is the best time to be investing capital? I'm not really sure, but as long as I can find quality companies at reasonable valuations I'm going to continue to invest. I'm still undecided on whether to pursue real estate investing and becoming a landlord so in the meantime I've started to invest more capital in the markets. It just doesn't make sense to me to have $30k sitting in a savings account earning next to nothing. I added to my position in Wal-Mart early this week as well as initiated a new position and added to another. I've only put about $5k to work but it feels good to be able to invest some capital again. For those of you that don't follow me on Twitter@JC_PIP you're just going to have to wait to find out about the other two purchases. I still might change my mind on real estate but it just doesn't seem like it's going to work for us at this time. Although that's probably just me over-analyzing the whole thing.
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- Weekly Roundup - September 13, 2014
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- Weekly Roundup - August 2, 2014
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- Recent Buy
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- Weekly Roundup - November 2, 2013
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Money and Finance
Weekly Roundup - June 14, 2014
It's been a busy and fun week. I've been back to the grind at work now and I can't say I'm all that excited about it. Especially now that my wife is on summer break and has loads of free time. It makes it that much more difficult to be away from her when I know we could be spending lots of time together. After all that's the whole reason we're striving for financial independence. But the good news is that my wife drove down to come and see me yesterday and we got to be together. We're trying to see what will be going on with my work for tonight to decide whether she should stay or not. That's the joy of having a job that can completely screw up plans like that.
After being fairly quiet with my portfolio over the last 1-2 months I've gone on a bit of a buying spree. Is is the best time to be investing capital? I'm not really sure, but as long as I can find quality companies at reasonable valuations I'm going to continue to invest. I'm still undecided on whether to pursue real estate investing and becoming a landlord so in the meantime I've started to invest more capital in the markets. It just doesn't make sense to me to have $30k sitting in a savings account earning next to nothing. I added to my position in Wal-Mart early this week as well as initiated a new position and added to another. I've only put about $5k to work but it feels good to be able to invest some capital again. For those of you that don't follow me on Twitter@JC_PIP you're just going to have to wait to find out about the other two purchases. I still might change my mind on real estate but it just doesn't seem like it's going to work for us at this time. Although that's probably just me over-analyzing the whole thing.
Read more »
- Weekly Roundup - September 26, 2015
Unfortunately I'm back to the grind of work. Although that also means that I can get back into a routine of writing on a regular basis. Work is always such a bittersweet time. It's great for a few reasons namely that's how I earn my...
- Weekly Roundup - September 13, 2014
Another week has come and gone. How do the days keep flying by so fast? All the more reason to reach financial independence as early as possible and start to recapture some of the ever-fleeting time that we have. With no appointments this week that...
- Weekly Roundup - August 2, 2014
Well this past week was just grinding away in the blistering heat down here in south Texas. Luckily I don't actually work outside but man it was extremely hot. We should be able to finish this well up sometime this weekend and I can't wait...
- Recent Buy
Whenever I buy or sell a position in my portfolio I try to get a post up shortly thereafter discussing the reasons for the purchase and all of the juicy details. I'll usually tweet about the purchase within an hour of the purchase but I'm not...
- Weekly Roundup - November 2, 2013
This week meant it was back to the grind of work. Which, after the fun of water line problems that I went through the last time I was home, work actually brought a much needed relief from the hassle that I had to deal with. Although if I had the option,...