The DQYDJ Weekender, 10/27/2024

Hey folks! It’s good to be talking to you again this Weekender.

If you’ve been watching the feed (you can find it here), you know that I’ve been updating the Income posts for 20241 data. Here’s a catalog of what I’ve finished so far:

I owe you a couple: the State and City breakdowns. They are the hardest, so they aren’t done yet (ha). And there are no US Net Worth updates until (probably) 2026, the next time I expect new SCF data.

After that, most of your requests are for more investment calculators. I’ll see what I can build there with my current data sources, then maybe explore a little. But keep the ideas coming!

¹ It comes up often – 2024 data is “full year 2023 data”. The CPS ASEC is in the field in the Spring, and asks about what people earned in the previous year. But that’s okay; if you asked about 2024 full-year data, it’d just be a projection at this point anyway.

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If you’ve been following my sporadic Weekenders, you know I bought more projects than I expected with this house. Since we’re rapidly approaching winter, I’ve been knocking out as many outdoor projects as possible.

You’ll be happy to know that after all of the work replacing the deck boards, we laid down some stain:

A finally-stained deck in New Hampshire.

It’s pretty funny that you can still tell which boards were replaced – but the older ones were solid (believe me, we checked everything closely). And yeah, it’s funny now looking back, but with the number I replaced in the last two years, we probably should have just gone composite. For the railings, we’re thinking of PVC or Composite, and due to the existing spans, we’re looking at Barrette Outdoor Living’s and Envision Outdoor’s lines. We’d keep the current 4×4 posts.

Let me know if you have any experience with them, one way or the other.

I’m also cutting in for low-voltage deck lights. Here, I’ll do 3 1″ insets. And I’m paranoid about water getting in the holes, I did end up staining everything I drilled:

Drilling 1″ holes for low voltage lights.

This is now our third Fall in New Hampshire. It’s beautiful here – check out the colors from a walk we did the other day:

Are any colors missing here?

Hope all is well with you!

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