Recent content by Dreaming of Freedom

Hello fellow 2024 FIRE-ees! I have been salivating for early retirement for almost a decade now. I am hoping to flip the switch at the end of this year unless I succumb to OMY. Anyway, how does this look: I will be 48 when I retire at the end of the year. DH retired at 61 right before Covid...

We hit another big net worth milestone today, and are still happily married! Hopefully my husband will retire this year. He keeps working and I don't think he even knows why. More than a decade ago, I did a retirement planning exercise through my 457 plan, and my FIRE/partial FIRE guesstimate...

My husband and I just hit another big net worth milestone, but I can't tell anyone I know, hubby is asleep, and the cats don't care. I know our net worth will dip beneath the milestone, but hitting it for the first time is so exciting! Now if I can just get my husband to retire this year and...

You could try an elimination diet to see if you are allergic to something specific that is causing acid reflux. I did an elimination diet and learned that I am allergic to caffeine (not coffee, not the acidity). I switched to decaf coffee years ago, and my reoccurring, daily acid reflux issues...

Wow, that is a shocking response!

I was going to suggest Austin too, though it is getting expensive and congested. It does not have the high crime rate that many Midwestern cities are dealing with. It seems like most metro areas in the US have fairly high crime compared to the Utopia we are all looking for :(

So far I have been to Mérida and Progreso, Yucatan, Mexico and Palm Springs, CA. Looking forward to visiting Padre Island/Corpus Christi, TX this spring. Headed to Washington DC in September.

I am still hoping to partially retire sometime between next winter and April 1, 2022 (when my husband will be ~ 18 months from Medicare age). Unfortunately, the cost of COBRA where I work is now $22,000/year for the two of us as of 2019. That amount of money would more than cover all our living...

I am trying to get my husband to retire this year at age 60. I am 42 and will keep working for an amount of time yet to be determined.

I would definitely keep the COBRA PPO plan then. Many of the ACA HMO's have tiny networks and no out of network coverage.

My mother started having all sorts of strange issues that doctors could not diagnose for 6 months...until she finally got in to see a neurologist. Unfortunately, he correctly diagnosed my mother with Progressive Supra Nuclear Palsy. Just 2 months later, she could no longer physically take care...

The true cost of health insurance/healthcare for my large group, self insured employer is $19,500/year for a family in Kansas City. Crazy! I am working hard trying to talk my husband into retiring to Mexico. I don't think things are going to get better anytime soon with respect to health...

This information is very useful to me. My husband is 60 and I am 42, so there may never be a time when we will both be alive, retired, and safely on Medicare. He has had 3 skin cancer surgeries in the past year, so he has pre-existing conditions. The plan right now is for me to work at my full...

I hope this the the right place for this question: I am trying to figure out how to disable the email notifications from this forum, but keep the Android app notifications on my phone. I only see a setting to turn on/off push notifications in my app, but I am not sure which notifications it is...

It is funny how 1 year does make a big difference in FireCalc.