I think I briefly hit my number in January of 2020, and I know I hit it and stayed above it for a bit in February. I really was thinking that this was it, and I could start planning on retiring. If the market had kept its course at the time, I probably would have gone in April 2020. My birthday is in April, so I was shooting for around that time to make it symbolic.
Of course, COVID had other plans for me. By the time April settled, while I was on the mend, I was about 15% off my number. At the bottom, on March 23 2020, I was about 32% down from my number.
Now, I'm about 13% over my number, but I'm still not quite ready. I think part of the problem is that I've been working from home since mid-March, so it just feels like easy money. Plus, it's not like I can just get out there and easily enjoy retirement, until this virus turmoil subsides. So if I'm going to mostly hang around the house, I figure I might as well get paid for it!
Now, once they start a serious push to return us to the office, as long as my investments are still doing well, that might just be the push I need to go ahead and retire. I've been working from home for so long now, that getting me to re-acclimate to the workplace it probably something akin to trying to turn a mountain lion into an indoor cat!