It’s not exactly the end of the year but I’m writing this post now because I’ll be in Europe for most of December and I have a busy itinerary so I doubt I’ll have time to write too many posts. Here are the most important reflections for me in 2024 from a personal finance perspective….
Traveling Again This Week
I am repositioning to Europe this week to spend the holidays overseas so posts will be sporadic until I can get the time to do them.
Retirement Software Review: Boldin
I have been using Boldin software now for a couple of months and felt it was a good time to write a review about it. You can visit their website at www.boldin.com. Cost I’ll get to the cost part first because it’s one of the easiest things to discuss and what most people are generally…
My Tax Plan for 2025
It’s December and I finally made some decisions around tax planning for 2025. As your income grows higher and higher, tax planning becomes a core part of your long term strategy. W-2 Income I decided to defer about 1/4 of my income for 2025 in the company deferred compensation plan and I will also be…
Vacation Planning With AI
Once again, I am blown away by AI. My wife and I are planning on a trip to southeast Asia early next year and I would normally spend hours researching places, thing to do, restaurants on Tripadvisor then trying to pick a hotel around the activities I want to do but AI did this all…
Zepbound: My Health Journey – November Edition
I am late getting this post out but that’s because of the Thanksgiving holiday. The good news is that I actually lost 3 lbs in November including the Thanksgiving holiday and now I’m back on track to weight loss. I had stopped losing weight when my doc told me to get off the med so…
Inflation Still Out of Control
Something is going to break and I think it’s going to happen in 2025. I’m not sure when or what will trigger it but I can’t help but notice that inflation is still out of control. And by “break” I mean a large disruption to the normal flow of goods and services as things reset…
Cooking Turkey In A Sous Vide
This year is probably the cheapest Thanksgiving dinner I’ve ever done largely because there were only three of us having dinner. Through a series of unexpected events (recent travel, miscommunication, aging, and exhaustion), everyone in my family decided to go it alone.. Travel We had just come back from a trip in Mexico and had…
Buying EURO Currency Via FXE
The Euro is getting crushed by the dollar and I think it’s a great time to pick up some EURO currency. I wrote about hedging my investment portfolio a few days ago with Swiss currency and I’m now looking to buy Euros. The chart above shows FXE is at 10 years low from a high…