Well I think it's about time I officially joined you guys, and declare my estimated retirement date of April 2018 - let's call it 4/13/18.
I'm fortunate that I have an awesome (and by all appearances secure) pension from my job, so when I turn 50 in 2027 I will be able to start collecting ~25k/year. With that, I'm targeting a roughly 5% withdrawal rate for my stache which I should hit early next year. I have to admit, the whole health care thing has me nervous since if the ACA were to go away or be significantly altered that will have a big effect on our spending, but I'm hoping that between some buffer spending/income, hubby's VA eligibility, and the fact that we live in CA (I suspect that they will move towards a state-level system if the feds fuck us all over) we'll be able to overcome that. In any event, I think I'd rather live a shorter life of freedom than a longer life of indentured servitude, so I'll have to risk it.
I'm also trying to save up an extra bucket of cash for some long-neglected house renovations that I hope to accomplish in retirement. We bought our house as a fixer-upper in 2003 and haven't really done much of the fixing-up. We did some minor improvements to the bathroom but I think we're going to replace the whole bathtub/shower enclosure, and the kitchen is still the original 1960 installation, complete with burnt-orange oven and rangetop as well as pinkish-brown laminate countertop. What a strange decade the 60's must have been.