Hit $180,000 in investable assets

[Gin1984]

Nine years ago, my DH had $20000 worth of debt, less than $500 in investment, was just starting a PhD program.  I had worked through school so had $9000 worth of investments but had quit my job to move with him.  Now, he is a professor, I have my Master's and a good jobs and we have two wonderful kids.  And $180,000 worth of investable assets!  Can't wait to see what next few years bring.

[BrightFIRE]

Awesome! We just hit 120k ourselves, so I can't wait to catch up to you. :)

[Full Beard]

That's a nice round number!  Way to go!!

[swashbucklinstache]

Nice!

A fun envelope calculation: Double it once for every 10 years you have left until age 60. How close is that to your FIRE #? If it is over, you're already onto trimming years off your working life and could stop saving right now and retire before the "usual" age if you wanted :).

[Gin1984]

Nice!

A fun envelope calculation: Double it once for every 10 years you have left until age 60. How close is that to your FIRE #? If it is over, you're already onto trimming years off your working life and could stop saving right now and retire before the "usual" age if you wanted :).

Not over yet, only about a 1/3 of the way, mostly because I am pretty conservative with about $20000/year set aside for medical alone.

[bortman]

Good work. Keep your foot on the gas! Since DH is in academia, check if he has access to a 457b and double down on your tax-advantaged savings.

[Slow&Steady]

This got me thinking back to where I was 9 years ago!

Year 2009
Moved for work 1 year earlier and was not able to unload the house that we bought in 2007 ($120K).  Was renting it out for a $200/month loss but didn't think we could afford to take the loss if we sold it.
I am pretty sure we were paying a car payment (we are probably safe to assume $10k) and probably some kind of CC debt (again probably safe to assume $3k)
My student loans were probably in the $30k range
My expenses/retirement spreadsheet doesn't start until 2013 and it says I was at 43k at the end of 2013.  I know I put in to 401K since before I graduated college but apparently not very much, let's say that in 2009 I was probably at $20k.
That gives us a ballpark of a negative $143K

Year 2018
Still own that house (and it has cost us several pennies lately) but we no longer take a loss on it.  We don't make very much from it but it pulls it's own weight most of the time so we will call it a wash
Bought another house (expenses - value = $100k)
Student loans will be paid off by the end of this year $0
Other debt (alot but all at extremely low intrest rates) $65k
Retirement Investments $120k
Ballpark NW = $155k

Wow, I need to remember to do this exercise when I feel bummed about our progress not being very fast.  That was almost a $300k swing in 9 years.  I anticipate the next 9 years to be an even bigger swing.

Congrats @Gin1984 you are doing great things and moving in the right directions!