Hello and welcome to this month’s edition of Where In The World Is Purple 😉 ! This month I’m writing this while looking at local New Zealand birds frolicking in the leaves of thousand year old trees. The world is wild y’all 🙂 . So let’s get into what I got up to this month!
Continue reading “The Month Of Auckland: February 2025 Recap”
Welcome to 2025! I’m currently writing this while marveling at the beauty of freshly fallen snow and hoping that this calm environment will help me write more for this very blog (I’m very behind schedule🤣). So let’s get into it!
Continue reading “The Month Of Yuki Matsuri: January 2025 Recap”
Welcome to 2025! That means The Matrix came out a little over a quarter of a century ago and I feel quite old as a result 🙂 . But enough about my existential crisis 😉 – let’s see what I got up to in December 2024!
Continue reading “The Month Of Holiday Cheer: December 2024 Recap”
This is my first time writing a post like this. In retirement I’ve posted about my spending, my income and that’s basically it. But I wanted a place to talk about my money moves in general and sum everything up for the year, so that’s what this new annual post will be! Let’s look at my overall financial picture and see what the future holds.
Continue reading “2024 Financial Review: Investment Withdrawals, Dividends And Roth Conversions”
So let’s talk about something fun: the surprising amount of money I made in retirement this year. It’s surprising because I expected this amount to be $0 after I quit my job in October 2020, but like a lot of things in life, I was wrong 🙂 . So let’s get into it! Continue reading “How I Made $5,344 While Retired In 2024”
Here I am recapping the second to last month of 2024 while my brain is still in 2023. I really need to get on top of this temporal confusion, but in the meantime let’s see what I got up to in November 😉 .
Continue reading “The Month Of Amsterdam: November 2024 Recap”
Time keeps rolling by at a breakneck speed and I continue to be shocked at how fast it flies by. I guess that means I’m having a lot of fun 😉 . So let’s see what I got up to in October!
Continue reading “The Month Of Switzerland & Italy: October 2024 Recap”
This year is barreling by at the speed of light 🙂 . It’s already October and we have only 1/4 of 2024 left. So let’s make the most of it and see what I was up to in September!
Continue reading “The Month Of Iceland: September 2024 Recap”