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TromboneAl · 05-13-2007, 10:06 AM

Thanks for helping me understand how some people can have expenses around (or over) $100,000.

Put together just the mortgage, condo expenses, wine, eating out, transportation, and trips and you've got about $72,000. Retire, sell your condo, buy a small house in the country, go on more modest trips, eat home, and buy some thunderbird wine, and your expenses drop to under $30,000. Just by retiring (and moving), you'd save an awful lot.

Your net worth is about $969,100 right now, plus the condo. So you could retire today, but you'd have to want to enough to make the big lifestyle changes.

BCBS for DW and me costs $5,160/year.

05-13-2007, 10:06 AM	#6
TromboneAl Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ... Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,548	Thanks for helping me understand how some people can have expenses around (or over) $100,000. Put together just the mortgage, condo expenses, wine, eating out, transportation, and trips and you've got about $72,000. Retire, sell your condo, buy a small house in the country, go on more modest trips, eat home, and buy some thunderbird wine, and your expenses drop to under $30,000. Just by retiring (and moving), you'd save an awful lot. Your net worth is about $969,100 right now, plus the condo. So you could retire today, but you'd have to want to enough to make the big lifestyle changes. BCBS for DW and me costs $5,160/year. __________________ - Al -- Always serious, never joking. No, wait. Never serious... Always... I forget.