Recent content by LeaveItBetter

Yes. I should have been more clear. The positions I sold last week were bond-heavy. Sorry for the confusion.

I recently left my FA (yay!) and moved all investments to Vanguard (in-kind transfer). My intention is to simplify my portfolio to a few diversified low-cost index funds as is recommended by many in this forum and elsewhere. For my taxable account, the tax consequences of an immediate jump to...

Trick question in my household as we are both women, but all things financial definitely fall to me. There's an envelope in the safe that has a list of accounts and two people to call if should check out unexpectedly - our FA and my employer. DP doesn't have any interest in other details. The...

@MBAustin - Thanks for the link. Definitely willing to take on part time work - hopeful even, that something will pique my interest. I'll have to assess spending levels. About half of my personal expense right now is charitable donations. One of my goals is to maintain my current level of...

@bigcmagor - Thanks. Good advice on a SWAG for healthcare. I'll plug that in. And thanks for the direct feedback about not being able to plan for everything. I think that will be my biggest challenge - being so conscious of how things stack up during all these years of planning, and then...

Hello ER community, I've been reading your words of wisdom for some time and you've inspired me to start a concrete plan for my own ER. I've worked pretty hard at various megacorps for 22 years - in mostly fun jobs, thankfully. But in that time, I've become a virtual stranger to nature, and...