Hi friends 🙂 It has been a while since our last milestone update back in May 2022 (almost 2 years actually), but we recently hit $200,000 in combined net worth! After some mental calculation and realization in early February, we guesstimated that we’ve reached $200k +/- our student loans. Fast forward a month later, we…
Our 2023 Financial Wrapped!
Now that we’re in 2024, it’s time to go over our finances and how much our investment changed in 2023. We’ll also go over our dividends amount, how much we received and how it compares to 2022. So let’s dive right into it! Portfolio Overview In January 2023, we started with around $75,000 across our…
Reality Check – Will we reach our FIRE Goal?
About 3 years ago, we set a goal to be Financial Independent and Retiring Early, but the world has changed a lot in the past 2 years, including the economy. Our existing FIRE goal is $650,000 for us by 2028, with the 4% rule, that is about $26,000 per year or $2,166 per month, to…
How Visa Makes Money and Why We Invested in It
Over the past few months, we’ve been consolidating our portfolio to companies that we think have great business models, can grow their fundamentals, and ultimately will reward shareholders in capital gains and dividends. An example of this would be Visa, one of the companies that we’ve started investing in in the last few months. We’ll…
Beginner-friendly Credit Card Duos
Hello hello, we previously talked about how we used credit card points to save money on flights and hotels (you can find it here), so we would like to introduce you guys to our current credit card rotation. We believe these are beginner-friendly and a great way to earn points and cash backs. Depending on…
Q2 2023 Portfolio Update
Here is our portfolio update for Q2 2023 along with July as well!This is long overdue 🙂 Major Changes One major change in our portfolio for the quarter was that we completely sold our position in Broadcom (AVGO) at an average price of $834 per share for a total of $7,390.98. This represents a gain…
Summer 2023 Travel Saving Tips
We recently got back from our summer trip, and we did a couple of things that saved us some money so that way we can spend more on fun activities 🙂 Multi-Cities Flight Ticket This summer we went to Japan and Vietnam. Initially, it was just going to be a trip to Vietnam. However, after…
We Got New Jobs…Again!
Hello hello! It has been a year since we wrote a blog about our new jobs. After a year at our last job, we decided it was time to switch it up again. GF The reason why I want to leave my current job is because of the workload and the lack of communication from…