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10-28-2014, 05:18 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 1,085
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How did you find this web site?
Did you just Google something like "Early Retirement Forum"? Did you read about this site from either another website or literature? Did someone you know tell you about it?
I know I heard about this site from a magazine, but unfortunately don't remember which one. It's been so long ago but I'm glad I found this site.
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10-28-2014, 05:28 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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I read a post about it on a financial forum (the old "Vanguard Diehards" forum at the Morningstar website).
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Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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10-28-2014, 05:31 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Chicagoland
Posts: 40,726
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Nords turned me on to this, over at RADDR's website.
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10-28-2014, 05:32 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
Posts: 25,346
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A Google search on "frugal living" or some such phrase.
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When I was a kid I wanted to be older. This is not what I expected.
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10-28-2014, 05:35 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: San Diego
Posts: 14,212
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It was mentioned by a regular poster at a San Diego centric economics/real estate blog called piggingtons. I'd already been on the preparation path for ER - but coming here I learned more/better ways to figure out how to retire early.
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Retired June 2014. No longer an enginerd - now I'm just a nerd.
micro pensions 6%, rental income 20%
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10-28-2014, 05:36 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: South central PA
Posts: 3,486
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Googled "early retirement".
Sent from my iPhone using Early Retirement Forum
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10-28-2014, 05:38 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 35,712
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By searching for "safe withdrawal rate", I found FIRECalc, then this forum.
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10-28-2014, 05:42 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Bay Area
Posts: 2,745
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Originally Posted by Walt34
A Google search on "frugal living" or some such phrase.
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Google led me to here. I probably was searching "early retirement."
Wlat34, you were scary before. With that new avatar, I am terrified. Hopefully, come November 1st, you will shed the avatar?
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10-28-2014, 05:43 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Bonita (San Diego)
Posts: 1,795
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The Sailor Bob forum discussion on Navy retirement turned me on to Nords' book which led me here.
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We ask for nobody's permission to run.
I just wanna live in a world like that;
Now I'm gonna live in a world like that!" - World Like That, O.A.R.
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10-28-2014, 05:43 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 12,901
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I found the link in a personal finance book, can't remember which one.
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10-28-2014, 05:47 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: The sticks
Posts: 314
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I googled the name of that guy who sells the "bucket strategy" at his seminars. One of the results led here and I liked what I found.
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I’m not much on seizing the day. I just kind of poke it with a stick.
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10-28-2014, 05:48 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
Posts: 25,346
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Quote:
Originally Posted by robnplunder
Wlat34, you were scary before. With that new avatar, I am terrified. Hopefully, come November 1st, you will shed the avatar?
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Yes, that's just a Halloween gag. Actually it was something I'd read about on a Photoshop page a few years ago and I did it to an image of one of the grandnieces, intending to send it to her parents. DW was horrified at the thought so I did it to myself.
You probably can't see it in the avatar because it's so small but the pupils are a grisly green, lots of ugly red veins in the whites, and the pupils are now shaped like cat's eyes. Pretty cool effect!
November 1 the inverted airplane goes back up. I wasn't in the airplane but I did take the photo.
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When I was a kid I wanted to be older. This is not what I expected.
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10-28-2014, 05:56 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: NC Triangle
Posts: 5,807
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It's been a while and I really don't remember, but probably a search while still working. I read for a while, then got up the nerve to join. Then I got up the nerve to actually post.
Participating in my year's "Class of..." thread made me feel accepted, so don't be shy about yours.
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10-28-2014, 06:00 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: San Jose
Posts: 80
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FIRECalc mentioned several times on Bogleheads,org, which then led me here.
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10-28-2014, 06:07 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 11,401
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I was Googling "early retirement" in 2006 and found the Retire Early Home Page, which led me to FireCalc and to this site.
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10-28-2014, 07:38 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 265
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Searched something along the lines of retirement planning and wound up here. I had just finished paying off my student loans and wanted to get a new game plan set up before all that free cash flow started getting spent on frivolous things.
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10-28-2014, 07:42 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Bloomington, MN
Posts: 1,159
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Saw some positive references to the site on Bogleheads.
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10-28-2014, 07:53 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 6,698
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadbh
I was Googling "early retirement" in 2006 and found the Retire Early Home Page, which led me to FireCalc and to this site.
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Similar time here. I was on that rarely used website for a while before someone pointed me here in 2009.
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Retired in late 2008 at age 45. Cashed in company stock, bought a lot of shares in a big bond fund and am living nicely off its dividends. IRA, SS, and a pension await me at age 60 and later. No kids, no debts.
"I want my money working for me instead of me working for my money!"
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10-28-2014, 08:44 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 1,587
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Motley Fool Early Retirement Forum, thence to Early Retirement Home Page, thence to here.
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10-28-2014, 09:21 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Cocoa Beach
Posts: 414
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Yahoo search for "Early Retirement" led me here, FIRECalc and the helpful and wise forum members make me stay. 
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