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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #450 on: January 14, 2018, 06:16:27 PM »
There needs to be a "Race from $3M to $5M thread"

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #451 on: January 16, 2018, 10:38:58 AM »
As of Jan 2018 I am officially a millionaire!  $1,003,080 net worth.   Working toward $2 million. 

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #452 on: January 16, 2018, 01:18:44 PM »
Joining at the 1/2 way pit stop....$1.5 as of 12/31/17!

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #453 on: January 16, 2018, 01:45:14 PM »
Welcome aboard new 7 figure members.  Looking forward to your input and stories.  Well done.

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #454 on: January 17, 2018, 11:49:27 AM »
Hello!  Long time lurker yadda yadda.  I'm currently doing this race with you all.  $1.69M as of 1/10/2018.  Here's to a great 2018 everyone!

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #455 on: January 17, 2018, 02:38:51 PM »
Hello all.

It was recommended to me from Couponvan that I join this thread. I'm currently at about 1.4 mil in invested assets (a mix of a brokerage account, annuity, REIT, 401K, cash and savings). Much of my gains lately have been thanks to the unbelievable stock market and I'm hoping to hit 2 mil within four years at which point I'll consider myself FIRE-D at 48 (I'm currently 44). Happy to be here and add to the discussion or answer any questions.

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #456 on: January 17, 2018, 02:59:49 PM »
Welcome to you both. Its awesome to see people successfully surfing ahead of the wave.. and getting further and further ahead of it by doing almost nothing..:)

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #457 on: January 17, 2018, 06:10:24 PM »
6/30/17: 1.002 million, two months shy of my 35th birthday
1/17/18: 1.219 million, 4.5 months after my 35th birthday

Feels like this crazy market has put things into hyperdrive. Hoping I've got enough buffer to remain in the two comma club through the next correction, but who knows?

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #458 on: January 18, 2018, 10:18:31 AM »
Welcome to you both. Its awesome to see people successfully surfing ahead of the wave.. and getting further and further ahead of it by doing almost nothing..:)

Thanks Exflyboy. It was certainly quite a looong journey from 0 to 1 million. Thought I would never get there. Hoping the 2nd is much easier and faster, which I hear it is (knock on wood).

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #459 on: January 18, 2018, 10:40:14 AM »
Welcome to you both. Its awesome to see people successfully surfing ahead of the wave.. and getting further and further ahead of it by doing almost nothing..:)

Thanks Exflyboy. It was certainly quite a looong journey from 0 to 1 million. Thought I would never get there. Hoping the 2nd is much easier and faster, which I hear it is (knock on wood).

The first $1.0 MM took just over 40 years. The second $.5 took around 5.  I'd say the curve is speeding up....That's a good thing!

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #460 on: January 18, 2018, 11:57:17 AM »
Yes same here.. second million took 4.5 years.. Of course a raging bull market helped.

Maybe my third one will be here in 2 years eh?.. :)

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #461 on: January 18, 2018, 02:06:15 PM »
Yes same here.. second million took 4.5 years.. Of course a raging bull market helped.

Maybe my third one will be here in 2 years eh?.. :)

Bull market + compound interest = victory!  😬

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #462 on: January 18, 2018, 04:18:53 PM »
Welcome to you both. Its awesome to see people successfully surfing ahead of the wave.. and getting further and further ahead of it by doing almost nothing..:)

Thanks Exflyboy. It was certainly quite a looong journey from 0 to 1 million. Thought I would never get there. Hoping the 2nd is much easier and faster, which I hear it is (knock on wood).

The first $1.0 MM took just over 40 years. The second $.5 took around 5.  I'd say the curve is speeding up....That's a good thing!

Welcome to both of you. It does seem like it just gets easier.  The more you've got the more ducats that are earning more ducats.   It's a very cool snowball.

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #463 on: January 22, 2018, 06:35:28 PM »
Back to being the poorest guy in the thread.

Nope, that would be me!  Wasn't planning to make it here so soon, but with the recent market gains, I've somehow stumbled my way over here (at least until a correction comes along)!

1/2018 - $1,001,992
12/2017 - $961,556
11/2017 - $855,662
10/2017 - $841,984
9/2017 - $825,048
8/2017 - $810,361
7/2017 - $742,337
2016 - $619,152
2015 - $593,948
2014 - $190,525
2013 - $82,600
2012 - $75,812
2011 - ($159,240)
2010 - ($188,257)

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #464 on: January 22, 2018, 07:08:29 PM »
Back to being the poorest guy in the thread.

Nope, that would be me!  Wasn't planning to make it here so soon, but with the recent market gains, I've somehow stumbled my way over here (at least until a correction comes along)!

1/2018 - $1,001,992
12/2017 - $961,556
11/2017 - $855,662
10/2017 - $841,984
9/2017 - $825,048
8/2017 - $810,361
7/2017 - $742,337
2016 - $619,152
2015 - $593,948
2014 - $190,525
2013 - $82,600
2012 - $75,812
2011 - ($159,240)
2010 - ($188,257)
Damn....whatever it is you are doing, keep it up - talk about a sprint!!

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #465 on: January 22, 2018, 07:31:57 PM »
Damn....whatever it is you are doing, keep it up - talk about a sprint!!

I got incredibly lucky and was able to pull myself out of debt quickly.  After that, I was too afraid of squandering that luck to continue to make bad financial decisions.

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #466 on: January 22, 2018, 10:00:35 PM »
Nope, that would be me!  Wasn't planning to make it here so soon, but with the recent market gains, I've somehow stumbled my way over here...
lol.  Welcome aboard!

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #467 on: January 23, 2018, 09:51:43 AM »
The race is on, just crossed the first line yesterday, not to shabby for a high school grad. Hoping for $2M in 12 mores years at 63. If not, I am done with the grind regardless :)

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #468 on: January 24, 2018, 12:32:11 AM »
$1.06M now. Progress is slower as we're cutting our income (both going to work 0.6FTE). Should be worth it though :-)

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #469 on: January 24, 2018, 09:57:12 AM »
Awesome.. congratulations..:)

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« Reply #470 on: January 24, 2018, 04:16:12 PM »
$1.06M now. Progress is slower as we're cutting our income (both going to work 0.6FTE). Should be worth it though :-)

Congratulations HaH - hopefully the market will do more of the work for you now and you can cut back that 0.6 FTE even further!

Our employers won't let us work less than 0.6FTE! I suspect as we get closer to FIRE one of us will quit work entirely while the other one works 0.6FTE. Which sounds like a great setup to me!

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #471 on: January 27, 2018, 06:41:34 AM »
Whiplash to $1.4M total and over $1M in mutual funds.  Heck I'm still shaking my head that even when I spend money my NW goes up.


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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #472 on: January 27, 2018, 11:02:06 AM »
Joining the race as well. 

We didn’t start really tracking this until March of last year.

NW 3/2017: $855K
NW 1/2018: $ 1,126K (+24%)

Hoping to knock out the 2nd mortgage in the next 6 months and have the primary as the only liability on our balance sheet.

It’s been fun to go back read this thread all the way through.

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« Reply #473 on: January 27, 2018, 11:55:38 AM »
Joining the race as well. 

We didn’t start really tracking this until March of last year.

NW 3/2017: $855K
NW 1/2018: $ 1,126K (+24%)

Hoping to knock out the 2nd mortgage in the next 6 months and have the primary as the only liability on our balance sheet.

It's going to rocket higher from here.

It’s been fun to go back read this thread all the way through.
 
My apologies, I've been whining and crying on this thread for years.   1969k currently.  Don't look back.  Good luck.

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #474 on: January 28, 2018, 11:23:33 AM »
Back to being the poorest guy in the thread.

Nope, that would be me!  Wasn't planning to make it here so soon, but with the recent market gains, I've somehow stumbled my way over here (at least until a correction comes along)!

1/2018 - $1,001,992
12/2017 - $961,556
11/2017 - $855,662
10/2017 - $841,984
9/2017 - $825,048
8/2017 - $810,361
7/2017 - $742,337
2016 - $619,152
2015 - $593,948
2014 - $190,525
2013 - $82,600
2012 - $75,812
2011 - ($159,240)
2010 - ($188,257)

Wow, look what you did between 2013 and 2016.  That's impressive.   Welcome.

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #475 on: January 28, 2018, 12:06:10 PM »
Thats a very impressive run.. Well done.

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« Reply #476 on: January 30, 2018, 01:40:05 PM »
We'll see if I RE before this race is done.  I hope so; might require a couple of facepunches to reduce our budget further (biggest offenders are food, gifts for kids - ours and others).

I'm including home equity; planning to sell the house and move to a lower COLA.

12/2011: $244k
12/2012: $344k
12/2013: $446k
12/2014: $541k
12/2015: $674k
12/2016: $822k
12/2017: $1071k
1/2018:  $1092k or so after today's drop


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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #477 on: January 30, 2018, 06:30:09 PM »
We hit 2M in the New Year thanks to increased income, a bit of real estate equity run-up and the raging stock market (although haven't done the calculations today when the DOW dropped). Still pinching ourselves as we started as immigrants in the US with about $5K with 2 years work experience in our home country before moving here. Took 13 years to $1M and 3 years to get to $2M. Made a lot of mistakes along the way.

Our goal is 2.5M with paid off house since we live in VHCOL area and all our family is here. Probably going with FAT Fire as we luckily enjoy our jobs - for now. Celebrated by eating out at the local Pho Noodle house.

2004 - ~$5K
2006 - $66K
...too scared to look at balances when Great Recession hit
2009 - $450K
2013 - $760K
2014 - $900K (started to double down and get serious with MMM and Bogleheads)
2015 - $1.2M
2016 - $1.5M
2017 - $1.93M
Jan 2018 - $2.045M
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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #478 on: February 01, 2018, 06:20:03 AM »
First day of a new month--time for another update!  :)

MonthLiquidNet Worth
Jan-17
$604K
$883K
Feb-17$622K$905K
Mar-17$651K$930K
Apr-17$660K$939K
May-17$675K$954K
Jun-17$694K$967K
Jul-17$717K$991K
Aug-17$721K$1,000K
Sep-17$738K$1,007K
Oct-17$762K$1,033K
Nov-17$782K$1,055K
Dec-17$796K$1,058K
Jan-18$836K$1,095K

How can it POSSIBLY be that our net worth rose $37K this month--or, even more mind-boggling, that our investment accounts rose by $40K?  It still boggles my mind. 

Yes, we added our usual ~$7K through savings in tax-deferred accounts, employer match, and post-tax savings, so I suppose that made our actual investment account GAIN "only" $33K.  Still--wow.

We made another payment of 7K to our contractors on our home renovations (we'll pay the last $1K next month and will be done with that for a while).

Here's to a successful February for everybody!

(posting also in the $500K to $1M thread for investments)

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #479 on: February 01, 2018, 12:36:28 PM »
The January numbers are in, and they look good. 

                 LNW      TNW
Jan 2018 - 846K  /  987K 
Feb 2018 - 880K /  1.02M     

+33K on the year so far. 

I'm trying to prepare psychologically for the downturn.  It could be ugly after such a run up. 

But.. I bet the market will be higher 5 years from now than it is today.   

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« Reply #480 on: February 01, 2018, 10:19:17 PM »
$93K for the month of January! Pretty sure this is my best month ever!

11/23/2012: $45,000.00
08/03/2013: $100,000.00
01/01/2016: $408,896.04
01/01/2017: $617,283.09
06/06/2017: $758,104.40
10/15/2017: $856,488.71
11/18/2017: $929,536.54
11/27/2017: $944,395.35
12/17/2017: $956,928.07
01/01/2018: $968,307.87
01/05/2018: $987,442.11
01/08/2018: $996,215.32
01/09/2018: $998,819.79
01/10/2018: $999,079.24
01/11/2018: $1,003,101.34
02/01/2018: $1,061,732.89
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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #481 on: February 02, 2018, 08:38:53 AM »
Some how increased 100k this month....all gains.  It's starting to scare me a little bit. But heck, another 10% boost and we'll clear 2m

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #482 on: February 02, 2018, 10:31:01 PM »
Got within 31K of the 2M club.  With the 666 selloff much farther away now.

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #483 on: February 05, 2018, 08:30:03 AM »
A robust bear market might knock me out of this group. It's been nice being with you guys!

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #484 on: February 05, 2018, 04:41:25 PM »
A robust bear market might knock me out of this group. It's been nice being with you guys!

Shake it off Texan.  You should know being from Texas bull riding comes with some falls.  Keep with your plan and you'll forget all about this dip when the bull charges again.  Yah Hoo!

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #485 on: February 05, 2018, 06:02:35 PM »
Haha.. I'm back into this group from above..:)

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« Reply #486 on: February 05, 2018, 08:51:57 PM »
Welcome back exflyboy!

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #487 on: February 05, 2018, 10:16:09 PM »
Thanks.. I think a few more might be coming with me..:)

I'm about 1.5 new Tesla's down!

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #488 on: February 05, 2018, 10:53:43 PM »
Like I saw in another thread.  Isn't it great to be able to lose tens of thousands, hell hundreds of thousands in a few days and joke about it?  We've seen these bumps hit over and over on this journey and aren't easily shaken out. 

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« Reply #489 on: February 06, 2018, 12:19:33 AM »
Well exactly!.. How does one actually drive 1.5 Tesla's at the same time anyway?..:)

Actually for those of us who have been through the 2008 bloodbath and realised that we not only lived through it..but was the time we made most of our money!.. well shoot.. Bring it on..:)

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« Reply #490 on: February 06, 2018, 07:21:22 AM »
Well exactly!.. How does one actually drive launch 1.5 Tesla's at the same time anyway?..:)

.... shoot.. Bring it on..:)

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https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/7vghiw/falcon_heavy_launches_to_mars_orbit_tomorrow_if/

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« Reply #491 on: February 06, 2018, 08:10:21 AM »
Thanks.. I think a few more might be coming with me..:)

I'm about 1.5 new Tesla's down!
3's or X's....? ;-)

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #492 on: February 06, 2018, 02:22:37 PM »
Like I saw in another thread.  Isn't it great to be able to lose tens of thousands, hell hundreds of thousands in a few days and joke about it?  We've seen these bumps hit over and over on this journey and aren't easily shaken out.

Bateaux - I definitely wouldn't call it "great". LOL! But, I know what you're saying. :0)

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #493 on: February 06, 2018, 02:49:00 PM »
I'm down $86k.  Boo.  In good news though, I had a buy order that was delayed to Monday instead of Friday, so I will got the Monday close price.  At least I've got that going for me!  :)

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« Reply #494 on: February 06, 2018, 09:21:23 PM »
I don’t know or care how much I’m down but I am investing my end if Year bonus daily! Of course my inner worrier is hoping I’m not catching s falling knife but my rational side has prevailed

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #495 on: February 06, 2018, 09:34:43 PM »
Haha.. I'm back into this group from above..:)
Haha, why do I not believe you?

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #496 on: February 06, 2018, 11:59:52 PM »
Haha.. I'm back into this group from above..:)
Haha, why do I not believe you?

Well depends what part of our NW your counting and.. I haven't actually added it up.. Its probably true though...;)

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #497 on: February 09, 2018, 09:02:14 AM »
So I got paid today which means I've updated my spreadsheet. I'm showing a loss of $93k since 2/1 and ignoring what just got added to the stash today. Would need at least another 18% drop off yesterdays closes to start to edge out of this group (at least temporarily).

What's strange, my spreadsheet also tracks 6 funds (total US, total world ex US, total bond from Vanguard and Fidelity) as a yardstick, and on the rise up in January I wasn't too surprised to see the bond funds trending negative just over 1%. I was surprised today to see they continued that trend and are almost -2% YTD. That taps out my level of sophistication, I guess someone else would know how to check inflows/outflows into various sectors and stocks versus bonds, but that suggests that the sellers don't appear to be flowing into bonds, at least not enough to raise those values. Where are they going, cash? Maybe to pay for margin calls they made to trade cryptocurrency?

I know it doesn't mean much in the important long term, but it gives a hint that this sell-off isn't fundamental and is likely to be temporary. Can't do much about it, we've already leaned our cash position (almost too much for DW's taste), so pretty much every $ that comes in either pays expenses or gets invested immediately, but I get the feeling this "buying opportunity" will be relatively short; at least I got one payday during it, here's hoping to another!

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #498 on: February 10, 2018, 04:54:09 AM »
It's times like these, watching over 100k melt away that make it worthwhile to still be working.  It was fresh gains in a mania market and probably will drop more.  Oh well, I'm buying.

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Re: Race from $1M to $2M
« Reply #499 on: February 10, 2018, 10:31:56 AM »
Still hanging in there and still have a decent buffer, but if this turns into a full-blown bear market I might crash out of this group.