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I've learned to quit bringing up the subject of early retirement too, simply because there are too many nonbelievers who just want to argue about it. And it's not that these people have "good" reasons to keep working. They want out just as much as I do! But then they do things like cash in their 401k from their previous employer to buy a new leather living room set, do constant cash-out refinancing on their homes, or go on a month long vacation and then come back to work bitching about not having any money. And then they say I'm cheap because I don't go out for lunch, or would rather sink a few hundred bucks into my Granddad's old '85 Chevy pickup instead of running out and buying a new one.
I turned 36 a couple weeks ago, and I figure that if I really, REALLY wanted to play it risky, I could probably retire by the time I'm 40. And hey, if things got rough, I could always go back to work part time. Realistically though, I'm thinking more like 45-50. But I've learned to keep this stuff to myself. If I keep hearing "you can't do that" over and over again, I just might start to believe it.
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