June 2005

One Year

You know they say that marriages are basically still in the honeymoon period for the entire first year and that the real job of making the marriage work starts after the first anniversary.

While I'm not sure I entirely agree with that, today marks the one year anniversary of the launch of the Investing With Mom newsletter and this website.

A lot has happened in the last year, we started the day Reagan was burried, we proceeded through the election period and then watched as a tsunami swept across a pair of continents.

But this website and blog are not about politics, or current events, unless it's dealing with the way in which politicians handle our collective finances, usually with disastrous results, or people's current opinions of the various proposed solutions.

While the numbers have yet to be confirmed, we've grown from just 14 subscribers receiving the first issue of the newsletter to nearly 5000 subscribers in just 12 months. Hopefully tomorrow, I will also be able to update our returns for the last year, when I publish the next issue of Investing With Mom.


PS, I want to wish Carley a happy 30th birthday and hopefully our mutual friends Andrea, Melody, Miranda, as well as everyone else, are helping you to enjoy your evening.

Party On!

The Wisdom of Mark Cuban

Okay, so I totally disagree with Mark when it comes to Social Security.

But after reading his Memorial Day blog entry I felt it only fair to point out that I usually really respect his opinions and think he's a very smart guy.

In this particular case, I can completely identify with the whole counting the months thought process.

In fact, in 10 days, when we pass the one year anniversary for Investing With Mom, I will have outlasted all but 4 previous jobs or businesses.

The only other business I've ever owned that lasted more than a year was never as successful as Investing With Mom has become, and as my mom pointed out, the rest were just jobs.

Definitely nothing special! At least, not as far as jobs go.

Actually, one of those jobs, Eckerd Drug Store, only just lasted one year. I remember because I got an automatically triggered raise on my one year anniversary. But they didn't like the fact that I needed to take 2 weeks off to travel to Spain with my senior class as our class trip at the end of high school, so when I got back, they only asked me to come into work one more time, for just 2 1/2 hours.

They didn't want to fire me, because I'd done a good job for them, but they didn't want to let me work either. So they just never scheduled me again.

Oh well, their loss and our gain!