Do you understand your personal finances?

[LearnedfromTV]

Yes, I manage it myself.

Until recently, our money was split about 1/3rd in Vanguard funds, about 1/3rd in a handful of stocks (Scottrade account, buy and hold philosophy), with the rest in a couple managed Asia funds and a Japan ETF. Something like 80/5/15 stocks/bonds/money market, 60/40-50/50 US/Intl.

Retirement money is mostly in "Target Retirement" type accounts (the kind that get more conservative over time), international index funds, with like 1/10th in a random aggressive stock fund I opened five years ago. One thing I want to do soon is rollover a couple old retirement accounts into a single IRA.

Also have a primary bankroll and a backup money market account "assigned" to poker.

But we just bought a condo; so nearly all of paragraph 1 is now invested in Chicago RE! Time to rebuild.

I have a spreadsheet I use for forecasting savings/targeting an overall allocation. Not very good about details of monthly budget, but have a handle on average monthly expenses.

[kidcolin]

No, I suck at it and it's something I want to get better at, but keep shying away from actually learning about it.

I've got a pretty good job for my age with a solid 401(k) and stock plan. I only put 5% of my pay in my 401(k), I definitely should bump that up. After that, I've saved up about 35K, and all it does is sit in ING.

[Victor]

ive gotten a lot better. went from 90% in gambling sites to about 40%.