Share your FIRE Milestones - 2013- 2020

[FIREd]

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Originally Posted by Huston55 DW, Fur Child, and I relocated to the Bay Area as planned. After lots of planning and preparation, and running from bad weather the past few weeks, we are finally here. Attachment 21216 Now it's just a matter of unpacking all the boxes, figuring out where to put everything, then remembering where we put it. We are very excited to be here back though; been gone ~17 yrs and will now be able to spend lots more time with some close friends, exploring old haunts, and finding new ones.

Welcome to the area, and congratulations on the successful move!

[daylatedollarshort]

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Originally Posted by Huston55 We are very excited to be here back though; been gone ~17 yrs and will now be able to spend lots more time with some close friends, exploring old haunts, and finding new ones.

Welcome back!

[Agni]

Made it to Vanguard Voyager Select status, I had to call them though before I slipped back Hopefully the Flagship status will be attained much more quickly!!

[909294]

Finished grad school at 27 with 70k in debt, 1child, and 2 to follow in next three years. Self-made. Put self through undergrad and graduate school. Those early years were tough. Didn't purchase first home until I was 35, scraped by for the first three years deciding whether to pay electricity or water late. Spouse is a social worker, some years her car and costs outstripped her take home. Fast forward to today, am 51, and just made last college payment for youngest child (all three went to private schools, no loans). Primary home mortgage paid in full. City investment condo purchased new at bottom of market in 2009 is 75% paid off and has appreciated 55% in 5.5 years. Net worth (excluding real estate) just hit $3.5M today. Goal is to hit $5M (excluding real estate) in 3 years. Excited about the future. Not in a finance profession at all but a wise person told me when I was 15 two things that stuck: 1) it isn't how much you earn, it's how much you save; and (2) the way to security (and eventually, wealth) is by making your money earn money. Both easier said than done.

[2017ish]

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Originally Posted by 909294 Finished grad school at 27 with 70k in debt, 1child, and 2 to follow in next three years. Self-made. Put self through undergrad and graduate school. Those early years were tough. Didn't purchase first home until I was 35, scraped by for the first three years deciding whether to pay electricity or water late. Spouse is a social worker, some years her car and costs outstripped her take home. Fast forward to today, am 51, and just made last college payment for youngest child (all three went to private schools, no loans). Primary home mortgage paid in full. City investment condo purchased new at bottom of market in 2009 is 75% paid off and has appreciated 55% in 5.5 years. Net worth (excluding real estate) just hit $3.5M today. Goal is to hit $5M (excluding real estate) in 3 years. Excited about the future. Not in a finance profession at all but a wise person told me when I was 15 two things that stuck: 1) it isn't how much you earn, it's how much you save; and (2) the way to security (and eventually, wealth) is by making your money earn money. Both easier said than done.

Very nice. We are similar even to the kids' educations, but have had two highpaying professions for about half of our marriage. Impressive for you to do it with one social worker salary.

[909294]

I always tell my spouse I'm earning for this lifetime but she's earning for the next one...

[splitwdw]

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Originally Posted by Agni Made it to Vanguard Voyager Select status, I had to call them though before I slipped back Hopefully the Flagship status will be attained much more quickly!!

Agni, What's Voyager Select status and Flagship status? I know it's something to do with Vanguard.

[2017ish]

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Originally Posted by splitwdw Agni, What's Voyager Select status and Flagship status? I know it's something to do with Vanguard.

Select: 500K with Vanguard. Flagship 1,000,000. Get some benefits/perquisites. https://investor.vanguard.com/what-w...elect-services

[someguy]

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Originally Posted by 909294 Finished grad school at 27 with 70k in debt, 1child, and 2 to follow in next three years. Self-made. Put self through undergrad and graduate school. Those early years were tough. Didn't purchase first home until I was 35, scraped by for the first three years deciding whether to pay electricity or water late. Spouse is a social worker, some years her car and costs outstripped her take home. Fast forward to today, am 51, and just made last college payment for youngest child (all three went to private schools, no loans). Primary home mortgage paid in full. City investment condo purchased new at bottom of market in 2009 is 75% paid off and has appreciated 55% in 5.5 years. Net worth (excluding real estate) just hit $3.5M today. Goal is to hit $5M (excluding real estate) in 3 years. Excited about the future. Not in a finance profession at all but a wise person told me when I was 15 two things that stuck: 1) it isn't how much you earn, it's how much you save; and (2) the way to security (and eventually, wealth) is by making your money earn money. Both easier said than done.

Congrats! Mind if I ask what you did/what field?

[dvalley]

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Originally Posted by someguy Congrats! Mind if I ask what you did/what field?

Lotto, drugs?

Seriously, going from debts to 3.5M+ in approx 15 years is nothing short of amazing! congrats 909294!

[tnbison]

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Originally Posted by tnbison Frequent visitor to this thread, first time poster. Very motivating albeit sometimes not, as we have a long ways to go. Hit 250k in retirement assets(tax adjusting the roth) and 50% equity in our home NW is 330k and I hope to hit 400k by my 30th birthday in March

Made 400k net worth 11 days before my goal of 30 years old.

Hopefully I won't have to hit the same goal again! Next stop, half a million.

[Major Tom]

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Originally Posted by tnbison Made 400k net worth 11 days before my goal of 30 years old. Hopefully I won't have to hit the same goal again! Next stop, half a million.

You're a hop, skip, and a jump away. Congratulations!

[RISP]

Got my March salary today. With that I'm now back over 100,000€ in investments, after taking out 50,000 as a down payment on our house 26 months ago.

[bltkmt]

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Originally Posted by dvalley Lotto, drugs?

Inquiring minds want to know!

[eta2020]

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Originally Posted by eta2020 We have almost identical history of invested assets: Today $2,500,000 100% in equities all my life $ 450,000 primary residence no mortgage $ 100,000 vacation house no mortgage Current ages 44 and 48. We plan to work 7 more years.

Year and half later (No trading in last year and half just adding to existing ETFs):

3,250,000 Almost 100% equities starting to build CD Ladder
550,000 Primary Residence
100,000 Vacation house

Current ages 46 and 50
We plan to work 5 more years

[MuirWannabe]

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Originally Posted by eta2020 We plan to work 5 more years

Why? If you don't mind saying. Serious question. I'm interested in why you think your stash needs to be bigger. Congrats on your great success so far. My stash is similar although I'm 53. And I'm still working but thinking hard....

Muir


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[eta2020]

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Originally Posted by MuirWannabe Why? If you don't mind saying. Serious question. I'm interested in why you think your stash needs to be bigger. Congrats on your great success so far. My stash is similar although I'm 53. And I'm still working but thinking hard.... Muir Sent from my iPad using Early Retirement Forum

I always planned to work till exactly 55.

Once retired we want to spend much more time in Europe (location of our vacation house). If I retired today I could not do that because my daughter needs 4 more years of high school.

We are kinda tied to our town with great school system until she is goes to college. So since I am tied and do not have freedom to move I may as well continue working.

Once she is done with high school we are outa here Expensive Massachusetts town with great school system and terrible taxes.

[cho oyu]

As of market close today, I have breached the two comma club by all of $117.

The first, I'm sure, of many a trip back and forth across that boundary as bills get paid and the market fluctuates, but it still brings just a hint of a grin when I see the numbers on the spreadsheet.

Seeing the numbers is both somewhat surreal and anticlimactic at the same time as providing a brief moment of gratification from fruition of hard work and time.

There's just no visceral feel of holding anything solid in one's hands and I am also not FI. The somewhat contrary feelings aren't too surprising on any account, I suppose, but it certainly would have been nice for this to have been more of a definitive event.

[Jasonjam83]

Just surpassed 200k today! DW and I had a late start (me-31, DW-30) but we've come a long way since we first got married 4 1/2 years ago being about 60k in debt.


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[jabbahop]

great progress Jasonjam83


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