Living off of your investments is no easy task especially if you have not yet applied for Social Security. I have 3 accounts that generate monthly income. My spending account generates $850. My brokerage account produces $150, and my IRA produces $2000, for a total of $3000 each month. I
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2024 Investing Results
For the last month of 2024 the DOW lost 2,238 points (-5%). For the year, the index is up 4,829 points (+12.80%). Interest and dividend income was $11,042 for the month. Withdrawals for living expenses came to $821. A $27,765 loss in market value was the largest monthly decrease during
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Every year around the holidays, I have a negative experience with one of my Ebay shipments. Last time it was a package that I put in my mailbox for carrier pickup. A few days later I discovered that there was no tracking info in the system and the package had
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Near the end of each year, I post a list of the things I hope to purchase in the new year. Here was my list for 2024 and why I did or didn’t purchase the items listed: New refrigerator: Budget: $1500 Purchase on 2/04/24, cost $1481 after rebates. Remove dead
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This year I made 32 posts to this blog. There have been 264 page views in the last 12 months. This produced a total of zero ad clicks and $0.67 in earnings. Page views from all websites was 960 which produced $2.41 in total earnings. Yup, the numbers are pretty
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It’s been just over 5 years since I decided not to seek employment after being laid-off. I’ve seen many YouTube videos about people in the same situation. Most of them talking about how they manage financially or how they are coping with their loss of purpose from not being employed.
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