Recent content by Crichton

The IRS has a rule, 72(t), that lets you make substantially equal withdrawals from an IRA. If you keep this up for at least 5 years or until past the point where you are 59.5 (whichever comes first), you are not assessed any penalties. So essentially: You retire, you roll your 401k into an IRA...

I was wondering how everyone else tracks their progress towards FIRE. I just like looking at numbers, even if it doesn't necessarily change anything :) I'm not particularly competent with spreadsheets, but I've made myself a fairly basic one that I fill in that has a row for every month, and a...