I added up some numbers over the weekend, and calculated that, if I hadn't bought my house, back in September of last year, I'd now be over the $2M mark in investible assets. Here's how I did that estimate...
$1,802,000: actual value of investible assets on 6/28.
$169,000: the check I had to cut when I bought the house (down payment plus closing
$7500: the good faith deposit, plus various inspection fees
$20,580: the first seven months of mortgage payments. I've actually made two more payments, but that was after a refinance where I got an escrow refund, and it's pretty much canceled out those first two payments.
$1400: what I've put into the swimming pool at the new place, so far.
So, throw all that together, and I come up with $2,000,480. I'm sure if you threw in other incidentals too, such as increased gasoline costs for the longer commute, and other odds and ends, it would be a bit higher.
And, I realize that, when you throw in home equity, I'm over $2M anyway...there's the equity in the new house, plus the old house that I haven't sold yet. But still it's kind of a nice feeling knowing that, in theory, I could have been there, just in investible assets.