Recent content by Marge

REWahoo, thank you. Tossing in just my IRA amount for 30 years @ $50.000 a year give me this: Here is how your portfolio would have fared in each of the 111 cycles. The lowest and highest portfolio balance throughout your retirement was $360,284 to $9,424,787, with an average of $3,427,328...

Thank you both so much for answering! I will get the book and work through it. This FireCalc - is it that tiny little box on the right side of the main FireCalc page? I've put in some numbers and I get back a graph with about 100 or so colored lines. I'm not sure what it is telling me?

Hello all! DH and I turn 60 this year and dreams of retirement are getting more realistic every day. DH still works FT, I 'retired' years ago. We have a pretty nice nest egg with a 1.5 mil IRA (mostly stocks), a pension, and some cash. We just refinanced our home and will save four years on...