Let’s dive right into the October 2018 FIRE progress report. The Numbers 22.3716% This is our invested assets/target number. Our invested assets span across a variety of investment vehicles such as 401k, HSA, IRA, Roth IRA, and standard taxable mutual funds. 118 The number of months until my 45th birthday and our finish date. 112.38…
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FIRE Progress Report – September 2018
I’ll be honest, I’m not consistent about posting on a regular basis, but I’m going to try to post a monthly report about our progress towards FIRE. It will be short and to the point without a lot of fluff. I’ll also give a tad bit of an update on the different things we’ve got…
Mortgage done, what’s next? FIRE!
While it has felt like a long, slow journey to get the mortgage paid off, by most people’s standard, we’ve probably paid the mortgage off quickly. The actual total time was about 11 years and 4 months from beginning to end. The question is… What’s next? First, FIRE stands for Financial Independence Retire Early. Some people…
Happy Birthday to Me!
Normally about this time of the month I post a mortgage update giving all the details of how much progress we’ve made, how much longer we’ve got, etc. Since it’s my birthday month, I decided to take a slightly different approach. We recently celebrated my birthday, and as a gift to our entire family, we…