Surviving the market

[bill_schubert]

End of January finance accounting is done and we're down about $4k from December but about even with last June.  With the terrible month of the stock market that is an excellent sign.  Regardless of our current cash flow, our net worth is fairly steady and with the market poised to take off again I'm comfortable with that.

We're definitely seeing the inflation but what has started to kick in is a combination of an age related increase in medical costs combined with a decrease in coverage.  We're paying out of pocket on occasion for the first time.  Not a lot but it is creeping up.  My shoulder did not cost us a penny but any and all dental treatments are very expensive.

Our biggest long term cost other than medical is a car.  Both of ours are paid off and have been for six or eight years.  Both are about 10 years old.  I'm not adding 100 smart car miles a week to get to and from the Dog Ranch.  The gas is not free but wear on the car is more of a concern.   We'll go down to one car eventually.  No idea what it will be and I'll put it off with repairs as long as I can.  

Other than that we are very happily in good shape.  

Desiring less and enjoying it more.

Reading Leviathan Falling still

Listening to "You're Dead" Chris Knopf

Watching Wallander and, guilty addition, "The woman in the house across the street from the girl in the window".  Gloriously idiotic.