SomedaySoon
Recycles dryer sheets
- Joined
- Sep 15, 2009
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- 99
Well the DW and I are 52. The kids are grown and gone. The $400K+ house is paid for, the cars are new, and I have no debts. I've been using Quicken for over 15 years now to track all spending, so I know over the last few years that my expenses are a little under 40K a year.
We have $1M in retirement accounts, another $350K in after tax accounts. We'll get small pensions when we hit 65 (total $1K per month). According to the gov SS site, the wife will get 1K a month at 62, I'll get around $2.2K at 67. Plugging those numbers into Firecalc makes things look easy, but there's always that little nagging fear....
The DW says she's going to keep working at least part time, making at least enough to cover health insurance, but I've set a target date for FIREing of April 2011 for myself. I've been lurking here for a while and will continue to do so, so keep all the great info coming.
We have $1M in retirement accounts, another $350K in after tax accounts. We'll get small pensions when we hit 65 (total $1K per month). According to the gov SS site, the wife will get 1K a month at 62, I'll get around $2.2K at 67. Plugging those numbers into Firecalc makes things look easy, but there's always that little nagging fear....
The DW says she's going to keep working at least part time, making at least enough to cover health insurance, but I've set a target date for FIREing of April 2011 for myself. I've been lurking here for a while and will continue to do so, so keep all the great info coming.