Um... No. 0.35 to 0.37 per day. You'll have to post a LOT to make up for the many years of lurkerdom.
LOL.
You are 1 years and 0 months away from Vesting.
I've been checking my pension account more frequently, waiting for this day!
Yes!
My mortgage balance is now in the five digit region. It's a small, arbitrary milestone, but it's mine.
My mortgage balance is now in the five digit region. It's a small, arbitrary milestone, but it's mine.
My mortgage balance is now in the five digit region. It's a small, arbitrary milestone, but it's mine.
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.
I ran my intended job-quitting date through a calculator online, just to come up with a number that is milestone-worthy. And here it is:
346
That's how many w*rk days I have left!
Haven't kept up here for a while and passed a couple of milestones in our FIRE plan.
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Another milestone this year (2016), and not sure if it's good or bad.
- Had to start using a calendar for the first time since retiring in 2013, due to so many (good/fun) things to do!
And now, almost a year after the first time around, I've managed to top the two comma mark again.
It's disconcerting to continuously invest new money and have my account balances stay reasonably flat. Or drop, what with a heavy equity and international tilt to investments.
Since this is also the first set of downturns I've had to weather with a reasonable amount of money invested in the market, I am glad to see that I can still sleep well at night. I'm not sure if I'd be feeling the same way with 50% drops from market peaks instead of the moderate drops that have occurred. Or if I wasn't contributing new money, for that matter.
The good thing is the regular, continuous investment while the market slumps. That is how you get sale prices on stuff!
DW and I are both suddenly experiencing FIRE milestones, and not the way we intended. She's battling the Big C at age 52 and I had an MRI last week as "just a precaution" related to some headaches I've been having. Well, holy buckets, at age 50 for me they found two small "signs of stroke". Both of us are otherwise in great health with long-lived families and I've never had any stroke symptoms, except headaches. Her treatments are apparently going 100% well, as far as anyone knows. Why am I telling strangers on the internet our health problems? Because this kind of news rattles you and makes you think about FIRE. It forces you to think about life and what you want out of it. We've been assuming I'd work until 59.5, at which time we could retire smoothly at current lifestyle levels with $3M, if projections work out, though it's never been clear that DW has any vision of ever stopping. Now, however, on a short, slow walk around the neighborhood last night feeling like old people, even DW said "Now tell me again when we can quit?". That's a first for her. I've mapped out a Plan B that would let us semi-retire in 5 years with about $2M, including buying into healthcare at her work, and suddenly that path is a lot more appealing. So our milestone is going from healthy horses to feeling mortal, way too suddenly.