20K

Well, as of tomorrow, the mortgage will officially be below the 30K mark. We will actually be looking the 20Ks in the face :-) Even with sending the IRS an insane amount of money, we should be able to pay the mortgage off in September, or October at the latest. It would be kind of nice to pay that very last payment on Susan and I's second anniversary, but it would be even nicer if we can figure out a way to pay it even earlier. We have come up with some crazy numbers before....it would be nice to have another 11K month in solitaire, more than ever, but I don't know if that will ever happen again without some people leaving the site. Believe me, I'm not complaining, I just use to be able to win more. But dang, I'm still averaging close to 100 dollars a day, so again, I'm not complaining at all!!!!

Feb 19 - Mar 23rd Results

Solitaire has been very good to me.....especially the past week or so with the Survival tournament going on, even if it is a 3 card survival tournament that keeps on throwing back down to the bottom (just means more money, so its not a bad thing :-))

Feb 19 - 0
Feb 20 - 0
Feb 21 - 50
Feb 22 - 200
Feb 23 - 140
Feb 24 - 110
Feb 25 - 440
Feb 26 - 70
Feb 27 - 190
Feb 28 - 20
Feb 29 - 200
Total for February - 2770

Mar 1 - 50
Mar 2 - 200
Mar 3 - 30
Mar 4 - 0
Mar 5 - 20
Mar 6 - 0
Mar 7 - 30
Mar 8 - 90
Mar 9 - 120
Mar 10 - 70
Mar 11 - 200
Mar 12 - 150
Mar 13 - 150
Mar 14 - 150
Mar 16 - 120
Mar 17 - 100
Mar 18 - 50
Mar 19 - 250
Mar 20 - 150
Mar 21 - 100
Mar 22 - 200
Mar 23 - 100

When One Penny Makes Me Feel Good

Wooohoo, I won a penny. Exactly one cent. $0.01

So how did I win that impressive amount of money? On a little site called updown.com. Basically its a stock trading simultation that gives you one million dollars in play money that you get to invest on how you see fit. So Susan and I signed up for it this past month. You earn money if you end up beating the stock market. The amount you win is based on how much you beat the S&P 500 by and how long you have been a member of the site.

Well, I did actually beat the market. Not that I gained money, I actually lost money over the month, just not as much money as the stock market did....LOL.

So I made one penny, and I'm pretty darn happy about it.

February Net Worth

Did a little bit of correction this month. We have our tax information so I needed to go through and make corrections to our tax liability so everything wouldn't show up in April. So anyway, I put 6000 on the liability side of the equation for February to make things work out semi-decently.

Even with that we managed to eek out a very small gain for the month.

Net Worth: 123,448.78 Month: +0.57% Year: +4.42%
Net Worth w/o House: 63,161.10 Month: +1.12% Year: +1.23%
Net Worth w/o House or IRA: 29,817.88 Month: +4.53% Year: +14.83%

Our tax numbers look like this:

We owe:
Federal: 12,519
State: 2,283

Estimates:
Federal: 2,500
State: 400

Overall, it could have been worse. We were expecting about this, so everything will work out fine.