Retirement

Congrats!

Go out and do nothing for the rest of us.

zordak said:

Today is the first day I did not have to go to work for the rest of my life.

Congrats man, that is outstanding!

I'm working for my son now. I could retire - not as comfortably as I'd like, but I want him to be able to escape the school system without debt. When I went to college, UCLA cost $1,240 a year. Now it's sixteen times that. Add in cost of living, and he could be another Sisyphus pushing a six-figure debt boulder up the hill.

RX Reven' said:

In reply to Duke :

I have two daughters as well and my legacy plan has an eighty percent likelihood of leaving more to them even after adjusting for inflation than what I'll have at the beginning of retirement.

It was that simulation that eventually settled me down. In our case it's a little more than double, but I realized while reading this that we never accounted for our property's value. Which, over that period, is going to be ludicrous.  Those kids are going to be set for life, though they could very well be retirement age when it happens 

Congratulations on joining the club!

Yep, time  to go play now!

Thank you all for the support. It was hard the last few years, as age caught up with me. The kinda plan is to get to all the honey do projects I have been putting off and travel around our great country in our RV. For those of you still working on getting here, remember to take time to enjoy life as much as you can. Take all of your vacation time, even if it is staying at home and spending quality time with family and friends.