For the month of October, the DOW gained 1559 points, recovering all of the loss from the previous month. My investments gained 2.57% during the month. Interest and dividend income was $4,138 for the month. The end of each quarter has higher dividends because of stocks and mutual funds that
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This isn’t my first blog on the web. I’ve been making posts on Blogger.com since 2005. I recently went back and reviewed some of my old posts from the early days. Many posts were about budgethomepage.com and things that were happening in my life. A lot of my early posts
Continue readingRecord High Energy Prices
Today (10/18/21), the price of crude oil went over $86 a barrel, the highest level since October 2018. Natural gas and coal are also at record levels going into the fall/winter heating season. If you were lucky enough to anticipate this and bought shares of oil companies back in August,
Continue readingCub Food Online Shopping Pt 2
I decided to give Cub’s online shopping website another try. In my last post I commented on how the experience wasn’t as good as using the Instacart website. One complaint was that you couldn’t shop for only the sale items. Well, it turns out you can. That made it a
Continue readingSeptember 2021 Update
For the month of September, the DOW lost 1516 points (over 4%). My investments lost 2.29% during the month. Interest and dividend income was $912 for the month. In the past 30 days, I sold 100 shares of Penske Automotive @ $90 and another 100 shares @ $98 for a
Continue readingInstacart vs. Cub’s Website
For the past year I’ve been using Instacart’s website to shop at our local Cub grocery store. When I picked up my last order, the store included an advertisement for their own shopping website. They described it as “Our new pickup & delivery experience!”. I am mostly satisfied with Instacart,
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