P

Personal Finance

— Building wealth and financial literacy
31 members Created Jun 2026

What FIRE taught me about the relationship between money and happiness

Here's the net worth calculation I do every January 1st, along with the exact spreadsheet structure I use.

Assets: checking account balance, HYSA balance, taxable brokerage value, 401k value, Roth IRA value, HSA value, home value (Zillow estimate, noted as approximate).

Liabilities: mortgage balance, any remaining car loan, any other debt.

Net worth: assets minus liabilities.

I also track: total invested assets (excluding home equity, which is illiquid), savings rate for the prior year (total savings divided by gross income), and a rolling 5-year chart of invested assets.

The home equity number is there for completeness but I don't celebrate it the same way. You can't eat your home equity and it doesn't compound the same way portfolio assets do. Liquid invested assets are the number I focus on for FIRE planning.

12

Report thread

Why are you reporting this thread?

Restore the redacted content?

This will make it visible to everyone again. The clear action is logged in the mod log.