My Net Worth

While I find it fascinating to read about other people’s net worth, I’ve never bothered to figure out my own. With the start of the new year, I thought it would be fun to do. This is me, upping my personal transparency bar.

Assets

  • House: $255,400. Estimated market value according to the county tax assessor.
  • Cars: $23,445. Kelly Blue Book suggested retail value for both of our vehicles and my motorcycle.
  • Checking accounts: $2,974. I have accounts spread across three banks.
  • Savings accounts: $4,779. I have savings accounts spread across a few banks. This does not include my kids’ accounts, even though they are in my name. This includes every savings goal I have at the moment.
  • CDs: $1,095. I consider this a part of my emergency fund.
  • IRAs: $11,172 (Do you know your IRA contribution limits? Do you have a Roth IRA?)
  • Total: $298,865

Liabilities

  • Mortgage: $33,978
  • Car loan: $1,226. This will be paid off this month.
  • Credit card: $23,524. This is the next target of my debt snowball.
  • Total: $58,728

Overall: $240,137

Update: I wrote and scheduled this before I paid off my car loan.

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6 Responses to My Net Worth
  1. Crystal @ BFS
    January 19, 2011 | 2:12 pm

    Woot for great home equity!!! Our house is only worth $130,000 and we still have $68,000 to pay off…

    Thanks for the update! As you’ve probably noticed, I post ours the first business day of every month (it’s the post 1 minute before my blog stats and income update since it’s less popular, lol). :-)

    • Jason
      January 19, 2011 | 8:19 pm

      We got our house shortly before the market went nuts and watched the value triple of the last 12 years. I haven’t decided how often I’m going to post my net worth. It’s taken almost 14 months to do it once. That’s a lot of transparency.

      • Budgeting in the Fun Stuff
        January 19, 2011 | 8:50 pm

        Feels a little like flashing, right? I like it, but I don’t know what that says about me, lol.

        • Jason
          January 19, 2011 | 9:06 pm

          Nah, I’m comfortable with flashing. :)

          My goal is near-total transparency, but that will be a gradual process.

  2. retirebyforty
    January 21, 2011 | 4:09 pm

    Your mortgage balance looks good!

    • Jason
      January 22, 2011 | 6:37 am

      Thanks. That was one thing we had help on when we were getting started. That left us with a 15 year fixed mortgage with a reasonable payment, instead of working 2 weeks just to keep the roof over our heads.

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