Last week, I spoke about my appraisal at work and the effect of blogging on it. Although nowhere near the previous two bonuses, I still managed to get a significant lump sum amount as performance bonus. We are going to sock this entire money in our home buying fund, not in retirement fund. If you have missed, you can check out how much do I need save for retirement every month, the calculation showed that we are on-target for our nest egg with monthly contribution to 401(k) and IRA and a company match. Moreover, the annual profit-sharing contribution goes directly to the 401 (k), this year the absolute dollar amount exceeded 12 months contribution. So the bonus money is not going towards our retirement. Our immediate goal is to find avenues for investing, say $10,000 (sorry, not revealing actual amount). We have moved the money from 0% interest checking account to 1% Discover interest savings account immediately as soon as it arrived last week. By the time we could finish investing this money 100%, we could earn one or two pizzas from this checking account interest. Remember its one cent at a time, don’t you? Every bit helps. Now to state our
