EastWest Gal
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Roughly monthly for investments. More often for banking. I get a text message for each credit card transaction, and emails if balance greater than X.
I don’t worry about my investments levels so much, but I tend to keep a careful eye on credit cards, checking and savings accounts, and any transfers and other transactions in my investment accounts, etc. This is keeping an eye out for fraud or errors. Statements are reconciled monthly and I have email alerts set up to notify me of any transaction, etc.
Quicken and I have a close personal relationship. The stocks and bonds get recorded pretty much daily but the variances don't make an impact. However, payments going out or coming in are scrutinized closely and recorded. Guess I'm a watch the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves kinda guy. Or maybe I'm pennywise and pound foolish.
We do a total NW calc about once a month
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I track a few smaller more volatile things more often, like some old company stock I'm hoping to sell and take the gains/income this year... it was doing quite well before the correction and I got greedy and waited...
I should mention that the PC email has four times now notified me of fraudulent use of credit cards within 24 hour of the occurrence. That is a very valuable feature.
Not all my CCs do this, but two of them text me the second a transaction goes through, and a couple of others email me within a minute.
I read and then load the 3 hole punched monthly statements into the binder after removing the previous.
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I measure and record the rainfall, the number of times my furnace comes on, our electrical/water/gas usage (dollars and KWh/CF) etc etc. In my work days I'd record how long my commute was each day. Maybe from my days as a test technician where we took 'points' every hour (?)
I've created quite a few rat-holes for myself as I now have 15+ years of data and feel it would be a shame to not continue the drill. Mint, M* and Excel are my best friends! Charts! Graphs!
(as I write this I realize what a strange man I am)
Are you my Dad? He did that. Of course, he would be 89 if he were alive today.