So, I got myself a widget. As you can see, I have worked out that I am 1.5% of the way to target.
Working out that figure consisted of seeing how much was left in my current acount at the end of last month and then adding it to the value of some shares*. The grand total was £1,500.
In future I want the exercise of checking my wealth to take a bit longer than that.
*I have alloted a value of £500 to the shares. This is the amount that was paid for them and they are trading a bit above that at the moment
[...] I have mentioned previously (The Starting Point), Mr W and I do not have joint finances. As far as I can work out this would seem to be unusual [...]