May 2017 Net Worth: +$1,647

Unexpected money found in April:

Interest earned on checking/savings accounts: $14.29

Rebate apps: $1.25

Husband's travel stipends: $165

Refund from Amazon and Esurance: $32.88

It's a more normal check for me this month.  I think there were only 2 weeks that went unpaid but the number didn't make me laugh out loud when I saw the pay stub this time.

I moved both of our Roth IRAs over to Vanguard this month.  The whole process took longer than I thought it would but we're officially out of our terrible financial advisor's service.  He was really patronizing when we sat down for a meet and greet when he took over our account from the guy we signed on with.  My 2017 New Year's Resolution was to learn more about investing so we could handle things ourselves so the poorly run meeting we attended was exactly what I needed to pull the trigger and act.  I wish I had done it ages ago.  I picked my own funds and waited for the transfer to come through.  Overall 100/10 Stars for the experience so far.

I was so enamored with our new accounts at Vanguard that I opened a regular brokerage account there too.  I've been saving money from the J Money Challenge Everything idea and am set to have that auto transfer over in mid may so I can get rid of a clunky online savings account and actually have the money earn more than 1%.  When the car is finally paid off, I plan to still pay a car payment into the brokerage account to let it do its thing.

Until next time!

18 Years and 2 + months to go.