It’s week three of the new schedule at our house. Things have been going well, but I’ve been expecting that sooner or later I’d need to take a sick day to stay home with our daughter. Today was the day.
It just doesn’t make sense for my wife to stay home with her at this point. She is only “temping” and doesn’t get any paid sick leave or vacation. If she was to stay home, we would lose out on a day’s pay. When you consider we are also paying for daycare (they don’t give $$ off for a missed day), it gets rather expensive. Since I’ve got great benefits and don’t use much sick time, I opted to stay home. The reality is that I’ve stayed caught up on email, etc while I’ve been home so it will make going back tomorrow much easier.
The rugrat is taking a nap now, so I’m just taking it easy and spending a little time on PF blogs. Maybe I’ll pick up a new trick or tidbit of information that will help us with our finances.
It’s really too bad that I had to take down our net worth information. It has been steadily rising and we are much farther along than I ever thought we’d be at the age of 35. We have long since passed the average net worth of all age groups and are trying to stay in the top 10% of net worth for our specific age group. That was easy to do when we were below 33. Now that we’ve aged a bit, it’s going to be much harder to stay in the top 10% because the age range goes all the way up to near age 40. There are plenty of 40 year olds that make us look like materialistic debt laden nuts. Oh well. This isn’t a contest, but it is still fun to track where we are, relative to others in our age group.
Has anyone found a current net worth ranking? (I’m curious to see data on net worth by age group)