Archive for the 'Savings Percentage' Category

Earned Income Savings Percentage: April 2008 (0%, YTD: 22.25%)

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Not one cent from our day jobs went into savings or investments during the month of April. To complicate matters, we also did our part to spend the US out of a recession.
Here are the numbers for the month ending April 30th:

The key number on that chart has been our […]

Earned Income Savings Percentage: March 2008 (0%, YTD 29.63%)

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Sorry for the delay, some of this info is a bit dated as I try to catch up with my posts.
Our savings contributions continue to be feast or famine. With both my wife and I collecting a paycheck in January, we were able to contribute a nice lump sum to savings in February. […]

Earned Income Savings Percentage: February 2008 (102%, YTD 42.93%)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

The good news for us in February was that we were able to move a significant portion of our earnings to savings.
In fact we were able to move 102% of our EARNED INCOME for the month of February to savings/retirement.
Before you look at those numbers and blow them off, let me provide […]

Earned Income Savings Percentage: January 2008 (0%)

Monday, February 18th, 2008

I currently have some old fashioned views on personal finance and I believe that saving as much of your income as possible is a sure fire way to financial independence.
As someone who is currently trying to climb out of debt, saving a larger and larger portion of our income has proved to […]