September Net Worth +$12,306

Yodlee has been giving me trouble this past month, refusing to show any of my accounts in the Net Worth screen, which means I'm back to doing the math myself. It looks like we had a pretty damn awesome month, and I hope it's not due to some error on my part! We exceeded our debt reduction expectations again! In the last four months, we have "paid off" (contributed to a high-yield savings account) $9,851 towards our credit card debt! I wish I had noticed we were that close, I would have put extra effort towards hitting the five-figure goal. A couple of items kept us from doing as well against the debt reduction as we had planned... 1. $300 in one-time finance charges. These are due to balance transfers, and have already been made up in interest earned. 2. Mr. Savvy took some time off at the beginning of the month with me to visit a sick family member. His job doesn't provide any paid time off. That combined with the holiday weekend meant two very small paychecks. 3. We had some unexpected plumbing work done that cost $489. Things that helped... 1. I cashed in $900 of i-bonds and applied them to our debt. 2. A stock that we owned a teeny, tiny amount of ($300ish) was bought out by another company, so we received a check, which I applied to the credit card debt. All-in-all, we made a $2,500 dent in our 0% debt (cash vs. credit card), which is respectable ($1,200 is from one-time stock/bond contributions, $1,300 is from excess income earned)... but the big winner this month is our retirement accounts, which saw a healthy $9,830 gain. September August Difference Retirement 166,533 156,703 9,830 Real Estate Equity 80,911 79,860 1,051 Stocks 3842 5,007 (1,165) Cash vs. Credit Card Debt (27,382) (29,973) 2,591 TOTAL 223,903 211,597 12,306