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Today was my 2 week retirement day. I received my last 2 week paycheck. I was able to request the rollover of my 401k today. I am looking forward to a great weekend of enjoying my new life

Welcome to being permanently on vacation

Since the climate I live in creates 80 degrees by 9 am, I try to walk about 6 days a week. It clears my head & makes me feel great. I am only walking 1.5 per day but plan on increasing the length each week. If it is cold or raining, I do not go

Thanks for you experience and input

My last working day was May 22, I spent most of the last 3 weeks reading books, just being there to answer questions from my replacement. I take a trip right after FIRE, so it just seems that I am on vacation. At this moment, still getting up, just not as early and doing normal chores around the...

When the tax law went into effect, for the DINK family with income around 170K, the experts said the amounts would go done. Since the itemized deductions have gone away, I did our calculations last night based on the new rates and are taxes will be going up

Thanks for all the help, I am new to this website, but don't want to jump off the deep end without my safety gear. When I ran the numbers here our score was 100. I have a lot to learn about retiring

We have a balance asset allocation and over the last 7 years have a rate of return between 5.31 and 13.78%

Thanks for the information, I filled in the detailed Fidelity calculator for the budget including the SS Numbers from our last SSA notice.I will try firecalc. Had not heard of it.

For healthcare, i have a quote of the retiree healthcare cost of 24K per year that will take us to medicare age. Than I used the first year numbers for our situation of $70,000 withdrawal income to get medicare costs of 6K per year. Dropped this number lower after the death of one of us.

We want to retire early voluntarily Annual expenses are around 65,000 not including medical insurance. or taxes We included a 4% inflation factor and a 18% tax rate and a 4% rate of return on our investments Our score was a 97 out of 100% that our plan had enough money to last until the...

:greetings10: My husband and I created a Fidelity retirement plan years ago and we have make changes and updates to it each year as costs, medical insurance, and our lifestyle has changed. We have been living within this plan for the last three years, other than expenses, like home remodels that...