Recent content by iam21177

Just to clarify, the gay part wasn't sad. Not at all! Just that some people can't be happy for someone else's achievements.

Oh goodness! That is sad that people have to think these things up.

We are aiming for 6 years where I'll be 45 (H will be 43).

Great idea for a post! We need to make sure life is enjoyable now as well! Husband and I don't have kids, so one might think we have a lot of free time (as our families members have thought out loud). However we find we are so strapped for time with all that we have chosen to do. Volunteer...

We are 38 and 36. We are putting away 50.2% of our own income into pre and post tax accounts. We each have a 457b, HSA, Roth IRA, and 403b. They are almost all being maxed right now. On top of that, we each have a 401a as well. Our employer (same employer) contributes 14+% of our salaries...

We redid some calculations and I think we're projecting an earlier year than before. We were thinking 10-13 years, but now we're projecting 5-7 years. We upped our contributions 46% compare to our last year contributions. I'll be 44 in 5 years.

You should go educate the author of the article I quoted. I know nothing about this stuff! I don't even know how play a DVD in my house.

Woah, Lurking! A baby is coming Friday and you are now a stay a home dad to be! Those are some big changes! rodi, well you're new enough to ER, so sure! Interesting to see a glimpse into the first year of retirement. I'm sure many have the "freak out period" too. Senator, I've been...

Do you have any financial changes for 2015, Young ER Dreamers? We have updated a few of our contributions due to the new 2015 limits. We did some end of year analysis and figured we can start contributing to our 403b which were put aside for a while. The plan is $1000/mo for each of us on...

Way to go!

Keep it up!

For someone who claims to be so happy living simply, I sense an attitude in his articles, like crankiness sometimes. Or "everyone else is pretty much an idiot but me and my kind." I've read a lot of the articles. Sure there are some things to take away from it too that will be useful to...

We're 38/36 and aiming for ER in 10 years maybe. No kids, so that helps! We (H and I) are both in university research (science and technologies that deal with remote sensing). Together we take home less than $160k. Our employer gifts us almost 15% of each of our salaries into 401a...

Keep up the good work!

I tried to use that metric but it was too complicated for my scenario. However, the combined power of two salaried individuals who are on the same financial page is wonderful.