First off, I need to apologize for the lateness of this post — it’s already mid-May! Sorry folks! I’m running *a little* behind schedule on the blog these days. Let’s just say I’ve been a little distracted by this whole moving process. Not only am I doing a ton of work fixing up the house, but I’m also packing up everything and putting it into boxes…
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It’s official! After years of hunting, and looking for a wonderful place to finish raising our family, we’ve finally decided to move! I mentioned our upcoming move in my recent post “What have I been Up To (Winter 2022 edition)”, but I didn’t go into a whole lot of details about the move.
Why? Well, I didn’t have a lot of the details completely nailed down at the time…
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It’s no secret that I’ve been posting a lot less frequently this winter. I’ve been way too busy and way too exhausted to find any time to write. It’s a darn shame, because I really enjoy writing about personal finance and investing!
Unfortunately I just have way too many “high value” projects that are getting in the way of blogging right now…
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Is January over already? Some months seem to pass by faster than others, and this January feels like it sped by at light speed. Like most winter months, life was pretty quiet here in the Tako household. We stayed indoors much of the time, avoiding the cold and wet weather…
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Happy New Year! It’s time again to do the final accounting for 2021 investment gains, and this is traditionally the one-time a year I look at our family’s net worth.
Why only once a year? Looking at net worth is a lot like taking the temperature. It’s changing constantly (like the weather), and almost certainly “wrong” only moments later…
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At times, it can seem impossible to get ahead in the world. Last week, the latest U.S CPI came out, announcing a 6.8% increase in consumer prices — the highest level of inflation the U.S. has seen in decades. The last time we saw inflation at these levels or higher was 1982! It’s been 39 years…
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Has it been a month since I last posted already? As you can tell dear readers, I’ve been posting a lot less frequently here at MrTakoEscapes. The truth is, I just haven’t been feeling the blogging ‘groove’ lately…
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Have you heard the story about the frog dropped into a boiling pot of water? As the story goes, if you drop a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will jump out of the boiling water, and survive. This same story tells us that if you put a frog into a lukewarm pot of water, and then slowly raise the temperature…
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Don’t look now, but September is already done! Where does the time go? September was a very exceptional month on many fronts — both financial and on my daily schedule.
The most important change was that the kids started school again! In person school! Woohoo!
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