Well this is the first months since I started tracking my retirement accounts that I actually had a net loss for the month. Overall my accounts decreased in value over $800 for over a 2% loss. It would have been much worse if I had not have had $1154 in new contributions added via my 401k this month. So in essense the value of my stocks went down over $2000 in a single month. This goes to show you that the stock market is too risky of a place for your money and I am going to sell all of my stocks and stick my money in something safe like a money market account (more…)
May 2006
Monthly Archive
Wed 31 May 2006
Fri 19 May 2006
Well after my go around with the chemlawn guy I think his salespitch actually started working, although not necessarily in his favor. Basically what he got me doing was thinking about my lawn and well my pride as a past golf course worker started to get the best of me. Certainly I was still not delerious enough to actually pay the guy loads of money to spray some crap on my lawn so that it would look good for a week or two until I’d have to have him come back and spray again. It did however make me delerious enough to actually care about my lawn.
Mon 1 May 2006
This month wasn’t spectacular, but most of my accounts were on the positive side and my overall retirement nestegg grew by 1.6%, which if that happens every month going forward I will be a very happy man.
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