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« Reply #200 on: November 18, 2017, 02:59:10 PM »
Recently, my wife and I improved our communication when it comes to our finances and I've successfully convinced her to invest with Vanguard, so combined our resources bring us up to April 15th. Not including the equity from our house, which we plan to sell when we FIRE. That makes me feel pretty good about things. :-)

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« Reply #201 on: November 19, 2017, 04:33:17 PM »
Hi everyone,

I really liked this thread so I went ahead and made an interactive javascript calculator that makes the same calculations.  How many "freedom days" have you saved up?  I was trying to think of a cool visual for it and came up with sort of a speedometer thingy.

http://engaging-data.com/freedom-calculator/

I hope you can check it out as I'm learning web programming mostly as a hobby.  If you have any thoughts, I'm happy to hear any criticisms, changes, or extensions you might suggest.

Thanks!




Very cool!  Thanks for creating and sharing it.

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« Reply #202 on: November 20, 2017, 04:00:11 AM »
this is why I was confused.........
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Your $100,000 in savings gives you approximately 365 days of freedom per year (at your current spending level of $100,000 per year).

This means that your savings could support you (without you having to work) through December 31 each and every year.
An additional day of freedom requires you to increase your savings by $274.

Congratulations! You have earned an entire years worth of freedom each and every year (actually 1.0 years worth). You are at a point where you do not have to work to support your spending needs.

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« Reply #203 on: November 20, 2017, 06:49:20 AM »
This is fantastic.  Everyone here is highly motivating us. 

We saw the light a little late here. Things are happening now.

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« Reply #204 on: November 20, 2017, 10:15:27 AM »
this is why I was confused.........
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Your $100,000 in savings gives you approximately 365 days of freedom per year (at your current spending level of $100,000 per year).

This means that your savings could support you (without you having to work) through December 31 each and every year.
An additional day of freedom requires you to increase your savings by $274.

Congratulations! You have earned an entire years worth of freedom each and every year (actually 1.0 years worth). You are at a point where you do not have to work to support your spending needs.
So you put in 100% for your SWR.

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« Reply #205 on: November 20, 2017, 10:53:25 AM »
I guess my point was, there are not enough input variables.  Maybe I’m not understanding the assumptions.

Another example with the same result.

Your $2,400,000 in savings gives you approximately 365 days of freedom per year (at your current spending level of $24,000 per year).
This means that your savings could support you (without you having to work) through December 31 each and every year.
An additional day of freedom requires you to increase your savings by $6575.

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« Reply #206 on: November 20, 2017, 10:57:46 AM »
this is why I was confused.........
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Your $100,000 in savings gives you approximately 365 days of freedom per year (at your current spending level of $100,000 per year).

This means that your savings could support you (without you having to work) through December 31 each and every year.
An additional day of freedom requires you to increase your savings by $274.

Congratulations! You have earned an entire years worth of freedom each and every year (actually 1.0 years worth). You are at a point where you do not have to work to support your spending needs.
So you put in 100% for your SWR.


That is my suspicion as well.  Can you tell me what parameters you put into the three boxes to get the above result?

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« Reply #207 on: November 20, 2017, 02:13:05 PM »
I guess my point was, there are not enough input variables.  Maybe I’m not understanding the assumptions.

Another example with the same result.

Your $2,400,000 in savings gives you approximately 365 days of freedom per year (at your current spending level of $24,000 per year).
This means that your savings could support you (without you having to work) through December 31 each and every year.
An additional day of freedom requires you to increase your savings by $6575.
You're not including ALL of the inputs in your bug reports.  If you put in 1% as your SWR, this is the expected result.  If anything, seems like there are too many inputs - if the 4% withdrawal rate was just hard-coded, there would be no confusion, but then, some of us are planning on 3% or 5% or 8%, so then we couldn't try out different withdrawal rates.

This "days per year bought / still needed" is very simple - it is the fraction of your "number" that you already have times 365 (number of days in a year).  So if you're planning on a 4% withdrawal rate for a 40K / year spend in retirement, your number is $1,000,000 ($40,000 / .04).  If you currently have $500,000, then you've got 50% of the $1,000,000 required number.  So you've got 182.5 days per year covered forever.

This isn't C-Firesim - it is a simple calculator for the metric that this particular thread proposes.

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« Reply #208 on: November 20, 2017, 03:11:55 PM »
I guess my point was, there are not enough input variables.  Maybe I’m not understanding the assumptions.

Another example with the same result.

Your $2,400,000 in savings gives you approximately 365 days of freedom per year (at your current spending level of $24,000 per year).
This means that your savings could support you (without you having to work) through December 31 each and every year.
An additional day of freedom requires you to increase your savings by $6575.
You're not including ALL of the inputs in your bug reports.  If you put in 1% as your SWR, this is the expected result.  If anything, seems like there are too many inputs - if the 4% withdrawal rate was just hard-coded, there would be no confusion, but then, some of us are planning on 3% or 5% or 8%, so then we couldn't try out different withdrawal rates.

This "days per year bought / still needed" is very simple - it is the fraction of your "number" that you already have times 365 (number of days in a year).  So if you're planning on a 4% withdrawal rate for a 40K / year spend in retirement, your number is $1,000,000 ($40,000 / .04).  If you currently have $500,000, then you've got 50% of the $1,000,000 required number.  So you've got 182.5 days per year covered forever.

This isn't C-Firesim - it is a simple calculator for the metric that this particular thread proposes.


thanks for providing tech support!

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« Reply #209 on: December 10, 2017, 01:34:43 PM »
April 14 - 66.9
July 24 - 72.32
October 1 - 85.18
November 1 - 89.49
December 1 - 91.60

A slow month in November, but I still made it to around April 2nd!

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« Reply #210 on: December 10, 2017, 11:10:25 PM »
April 14 - 66.9
July 24 - 72.32
October 1 - 85.18
November 1 - 89.49
December 1 - 91.60

A slow month in November, but I still made it to around April 2nd!


nice progress!  You are a quarter of the way there already (one whole season!).  And you've almost achieved a whole month in just 7.5 months.  At that rate, you'll be done in no time.

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« Reply #211 on: December 11, 2017, 11:43:37 AM »
April 14 - 66.9
July 24 - 72.32
October 1 - 85.18
November 1 - 89.49
December 1 - 91.60

A slow month in November, but I still made it to around April 2nd!


nice progress!  You are a quarter of the way there already (one whole season!).  And you've almost achieved a whole month in just 7.5 months.  At that rate, you'll be done in no time.

Thanks!  I never really thought of it that way... I suppose extrapolating out that would put me at 5.6 years from FIRE!  I did have some extra help with my numbers in this time period.  Since I moved I got some extra money in dislocation allowance and move in housing allowance (MIHA) and I also got my tax return of almost 5k, but hopefully my money will earn me even more to help me keep it up!

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« Reply #212 on: December 11, 2017, 12:41:20 PM »
I'm in on this!!!!  A genius way to track a difficult number/concept.

Also note, various 'waypoints' can be reached anlong the year...  IE January 15th is probably base-level FU money, February 15th is I can always say no level FU money, "I can help a friend in a crisis" is probably around March or April, "My investments save more than I do" happens on June 1st and the recognition that the dates are exponentially quick (typically) as one proceeds through the year (due to passive income return...).

Also, many on this forum could note how many "Years" they have bought, because their savings have exceeded 4% or even 3% in some cases.  As in, Example_Person has 2 years and 43 days and is trying to give as much away as reasonable to get back down to 1 year and 6 months.

Cool idea, I'm gonna share this within my FI circle.

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« Reply #213 on: December 11, 2017, 12:53:47 PM »
At $60k/year and only looking a 401k/IRA

Feb-17 = 17 days
Sept-17 = 21.7 days
Oct-17 = 22.05 days
Dec-17 = 23.03 days

There should be a lot of changes in the next year; baby #2, SL paid off, new job (fingers crossed), DH company continue to grow, etc.  Some of these might not be so great for this number in the short term (baby #2, SL pay off) but we will see.  Hopefully, this number starts speeding up (increased contributions & compounding interest) because 0.5 days per month = an unacceptable  amount of work left for me. 

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« Reply #214 on: December 27, 2017, 12:10:22 PM »
I love this way of looking at it. My spreadsheet is getting really wide, but I added it. I'm pitifully low for my age, but I'm on the right track after spending ferociously in my 20s and first half of my 30s.

Just crossed 30 days of freedom paid for.

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« Reply #215 on: December 28, 2017, 11:54:19 AM »
This is definitely a cool new way to look at it. I also liked the idea someone posted on compounding and how stealing from yourself now really robs your future self. While I've always known this seeing the numbers is very eye opening. This new calculation confirms what I already knew which is that I'm halfway there. I sometimes wish I lived in a LCOL area instead of where I live so I can be done now, but this is where my friends and family are and you can't beat the weather. I've still got at least 6 more years of work, but I plan to not work too hard and try to travel at least once a year to somewhere new.
Glad to report I'm not at 234 days and I think 3.5 years left. Really been hitting burn out lately and trying to wind down some.

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« Reply #216 on: December 31, 2017, 12:06:46 PM »
Not a bad year:

Year   Days Purchased
2016   64.31
2017   91.28

An Increase of 27 days. 3 Months down, 9 more to go.

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« Reply #217 on: December 31, 2017, 01:39:23 PM »
As of the end of 2017, I am now up to May 7th. Hooray!

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« Reply #218 on: January 01, 2018, 03:36:25 AM »
April 14 - 66.9
July 24 - 72.32
October 1 - 85.18
November 1 - 89.49
December 1 - 91.60
January 1 - 94.16

My stash can support me until April 4th!  I now have a calendar that tracks my progress on my refrigerator.  Hopefully it will keep me motivated!

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« Reply #220 on: January 02, 2018, 12:20:33 PM »
As on January 1st, 2018 I am at January 26th!

Hopefully by January 1st, 2019 I will be about Mid-February.  Definitely excited to see things start going exponential as well...

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« Reply #221 on: January 02, 2018, 05:18:00 PM »
Earlier I said that I had made it to December, but I was using my home equity.  I think it would be best to not use my home equity, as I will not be selling my house anytime soon.

My goal for my stash is $750K (cash and investments only) and I am currently at $656K, which puts me at November 15th.  :)

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« Reply #222 on: January 02, 2018, 07:54:57 PM »
This is great!! I'm going to use this metric for my 2018 overarching challenge - how many days of freedom can I buy in 2018?

I'm a very new Mustachian so right now I have only about $15,000 saved, and I'm using a $35,000 FIRE estimate for annual spending... means I have bought myself 6 days of freedom: 35,000 x 25 = 875,000/365 = $2397 (round to $2400)

Right now I'm focused on selling unnecessary yet reasonably valuable crap from around my house. I've made close to $700 so far, if I can find $1700 more worth of crap then selling MY OWN GARBAGE STUFF THAT I DON'T NEED will buy me one day of freedom forever.

I LOVE IT!

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« Reply #223 on: January 03, 2018, 03:40:24 AM »
I love this metric

Later this year I'm finally going to be in a position, I think, to buy my first bunch of ETF (I have a mortgage and superannuation....). I'm thinking I'm going to make a card up with 365 days on it (doesn't have to be months, just 365 squares), and it can go on the back of my smartphone. Every time I buy, I get to cross out a square (or more).  Simple, always with me in my pocket. This kind of visual is what I need.


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« Reply #224 on: January 03, 2018, 08:35:30 AM »
At $60k/year and only looking a 401k/IRA

Feb-17 = 17 days
Sept-17 = 21.7 days
Oct-17 = 22.05 days
Dec-17 = 23.03 days

There should be a lot of changes in the next year; baby #2, SL paid off, new job (fingers crossed), DH company continue to grow, etc.  Some of these might not be so great for this number in the short term (baby #2, SL pay off) but we will see.  Hopefully, this number starts speeding up (increased contributions & compounding interest) because 0.5 days per month = an unacceptable  amount of work left for me.

At $60k/year and only looking a 401k/IRA.  Edited below to look at end of month instead of beginning of month.

Jan-17 = 17 days
Aug-17 = 21.7 days
Sept-17 = 22.05 days
Nov-17 = 23.03 days
Dec-17 = 23.71 days


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« Reply #225 on: January 04, 2018, 08:15:46 AM »
Assuming 4% SWR, $75k annual spending, and 4% post-inflation returns going forward, then our investable assets cover...

234 days (through August 22nd each year) if we stop working today.

258 days (through Sep 15th each year) if we stop working today.

We gained 24 days of freedom per year over the last 3 months!  Only ~1.5 days of that came from savings -- the rest was market returns.  But there's some distortion here due to large end-of-year dividends in the Vanguard retirement accounts.

In 2017 we gained 43 days of freedom per year.  I know that's unlikely to repeat in 2018, but it sure feels satisfying right now.
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« Reply #226 on: January 04, 2018, 02:03:54 PM »
Just wanted to chime in that this is an awesome idea, and I'm definitely going to add it to my tracking spreadsheet (my own heavily-modified version of "one sheet to rule them all"). It will be cool to track how many additional days of freedom I've gained each month.

So far, I'm looking at only 14 days of freedom at 4% withdrawal rate... but not bad for only really having started hard-core saving in August of last year.

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« Reply #227 on: January 04, 2018, 05:48:17 PM »
I've modified the calculator code so that you can sort of save and share specific instances of a calculation.  Just modify the values at the end of the URL, like so:
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http://engaging-data.com/freedom-calculator/?sav=500000&spend=40000&wr=3.3This is read into the calculator.  However, one thing I haven't figured out how to do (yet) is make it so the values in the URL will automatically adjust to the latest ones entered into the calculator boxes.

Anyway, hope this is helpful. . .

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« Reply #228 on: January 10, 2018, 03:55:37 PM »
This is insane:

I just did my monthly update of my "days bought" measure and... I bought FOURTEEN DAYS in the last month.  This market run-up has been *bonkers*.  That blistering pace cannot last, of course, but man it's nice while it does. 

I'm up to Nov. 4!

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« Reply #229 on: January 10, 2018, 05:28:55 PM »
This is insane:

I just did my monthly update of my "days bought" measure and... I bought FOURTEEN DAYS in the last month.  This market run-up has been *bonkers*.  That blistering pace cannot last, of course, but man it's nice while it does. 

I'm up to Nov. 4!


Wow, that's great.  At that pace, you'll be done within a few months!

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« Reply #231 on: January 11, 2018, 10:48:44 AM »
This is insane:

I just did my monthly update of my "days bought" measure and... I bought FOURTEEN DAYS in the last month.  This market run-up has been *bonkers*.  That blistering pace cannot last, of course, but man it's nice while it does. 

I'm up to Nov. 4!

Wow, that's great.  At that pace, you'll be done within a few months!

If the pace of my savings and market gains goes next year like it has for the last twelve months, then I hit my number in about 10 months.  But it can't POSSIBLY continue like this.  (Can it?)  Wheeeeee!!!

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« Reply #232 on: January 11, 2018, 10:59:21 AM »
This is insane:

I just did my monthly update of my "days bought" measure and... I bought FOURTEEN DAYS in the last month.  This market run-up has been *bonkers*.  That blistering pace cannot last, of course, but man it's nice while it does. 

I'm up to Nov. 4!

Wow, that's great.  At that pace, you'll be done within a few months!

If the pace of my savings and market gains goes next year like it has for the last twelve months, then I hit my number in about 10 months.  But it can't POSSIBLY continue like this.  (Can it?)  Wheeeeee!!!


It can go insanely fast.  Once you are close to your FIRE number, small variations in returns have a huge impact on annual networth gains.  for example if you are at 20x annual savings (and trying to get to 25x), a good year on the stock market (e.g. 20+%) will get you an additional 4x, taking you to 24x. 


That's the reason we blew by our "number" in 2017.




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« Reply #233 on: January 11, 2018, 02:27:55 PM »
Yes, it's amazing how much faster it goes the closer you get.  For those of you early in the process, keep this in mind!  It accelerates!

Did you take risk off the table when you hit your number?

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« Reply #234 on: January 11, 2018, 03:37:35 PM »
It can also decelerate at a gut wrenching pace.

We all (mostly) suffer from recency bias during this last bull.

Being at 20X and having a bad market crash take you to 15X while you save 75% of your income will be an interesting feeling to say the least.

 

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« Reply #235 on: January 12, 2018, 12:54:56 AM »
It can also decelerate at a gut wrenching pace.

We all (mostly) suffer from recency bias during this last bull.

Being at 20X and having a bad market crash take you to 15X while you save 75% of your income will be an interesting feeling to say the least.

It must be scary to see your net worth dropping like a brick while still saving and trying to increase it. Because I've only been investing for the past 4 years there have only been a few minor dips in my portfolio but nothing major.

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« Reply #236 on: January 12, 2018, 01:14:57 AM »
It can also decelerate at a gut wrenching pace.

We all (mostly) suffer from recency bias during this last bull.

Being at 20X and having a bad market crash take you to 15X while you save 75% of your income will be an interesting feeling to say the least.

It must be scary to see your net worth dropping like a brick while still saving and trying to increase it. Because I've only been investing for the past 4 years there have only been a few minor dips in my portfolio but nothing major.


I'm old enough to have lived (and invested) through the dot-com crash in 2000 and the 2008 recession.  Yes it is gut wrenching but in the past it has always bounced back.  Hopefully, future crashes will also follow this pattern.

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« Reply #237 on: January 12, 2018, 07:27:18 AM »
It can also decelerate at a gut wrenching pace.

We all (mostly) suffer from recency bias during this last bull.

Being at 20X and having a bad market crash take you to 15X while you save 75% of your income will be an interesting feeling to say the least.

It must be scary to see your net worth dropping like a brick while still saving and trying to increase it. Because I've only been investing for the past 4 years there have only been a few minor dips in my portfolio but nothing major.


I'm old enough to have lived (and invested) through the dot-com crash in 2000 and the 2008 recession.  Yes it is gut wrenching but in the past it has always bounced back.  Hopefully, future crashes will also follow this pattern.

You are a small percentage of the forum I would guess.

I wonder how it would feel for someone who has only invested through a bull run to experience 2008 all over again, didn't stocks take ~4.5 years to return to pre crash valuations? That's a long time to wait for newer investors (mentally, in the long run if they keep investing their portfolio value should recover faster).

I'm in the later pool, my investing career only began in 2012, so I am curious to see how I react.

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Re: I just bought 2 days per year of free life, indefinitely. 363 to go.
« Reply #238 on: January 12, 2018, 11:06:02 AM »
It can also decelerate at a gut wrenching pace.

We all (mostly) suffer from recency bias during this last bull.

Being at 20X and having a bad market crash take you to 15X while you save 75% of your income will be an interesting feeling to say the least.
Just keep telling yourself you are buying low, you are buying low, you are buying low...

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Re: I just bought 2 days per year of free life, indefinitely. 363 to go.
« Reply #239 on: January 12, 2018, 11:27:14 AM »
Yes, it feels bad when you put in monthly contributions only to have them "disappear" the next day.... month after month.  That has happened to me a handful of times over my investing life, which started in 2005.  On the other hand, tax loss harvesting REALLY, REALLY helps with the psychology of it.  Or it did for me, anyway. 
 

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« Reply #240 on: January 15, 2018, 08:49:35 AM »
Yes, it feels bad when you put in monthly contributions only to have them "disappear" the next day.... month after month.  That has happened to me a handful of times over my investing life, which started in 2005.  On the other hand, tax loss harvesting REALLY, REALLY helps with the psychology of it.  Or it did for me, anyway.
I'm from the Netherlands and we don't have tax loss harvesting unfortunately. We do however have this rule where we pay 1% in taxes annually on any net worth above 25€k. So devaluation in stocks lead to a lower tax bill...

When the  inevitable downturn comes we will get a support topic going to keep us on track!

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« Reply #241 on: January 15, 2018, 01:27:35 PM »
At $60k/year and only looking a 401k/IRA

Feb-17 = 17 days
Sept-17 = 21.7 days
Oct-17 = 22.05 days
Dec-17 = 23.03 days

There should be a lot of changes in the next year; baby #2, SL paid off, new job (fingers crossed), DH company continue to grow, etc.  Some of these might not be so great for this number in the short term (baby #2, SL pay off) but we will see.  Hopefully, this number starts speeding up (increased contributions & compounding interest) because 0.5 days per month = an unacceptable  amount of work left for me.

At $60k/year and only looking a 401k/IRA.  Edited below to look at end of month instead of beginning of month.

Jan-17 = 17 days
Aug-17 = 21.7 days
Sept-17 = 22.05 days
Nov-17 = 23.03 days
Dec-17 = 23.71 days
15-Jan-18 = 24.54 days

I got the job and it came with a 30+% raise!  I won't be able to contribute to 401k for the 1st 30 days and will be on maternity leave shortly after that so this will probably not grow to much for the 1st half of 2018 but then I hope to see it pick up some pretty good steam!!

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Re: I just bought 2 days per year of free life, indefinitely. 363 to go.
« Reply #242 on: January 17, 2018, 12:31:34 PM »
I wanted to check in on people and see how y'all are adjusting your spending rates when you do these calculations? I'm thinking of going back and charting my freedom days since 2007, but my spending has grown since then. Mostly inflation, grrrrr. But still it means i need to code each month with spending rates. Do y'all use one value for the year? or just back project current spending rates?


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Re: I just bought 2 days per year of free life, indefinitely. 363 to go.
« Reply #243 on: January 17, 2018, 09:47:46 PM »
I wanted to check in on people and see how y'all are adjusting your spending rates when you do these calculations? I'm thinking of going back and charting my freedom days since 2007, but my spending has grown since then. Mostly inflation, grrrrr. But still it means i need to code each month with spending rates. Do y'all use one value for the year? or just back project current spending rates?

Inflation is built into the 4% rule...  And lifestyle inflation is (used to be) facepunch worthy around here.  As such, you % complete towards FIRE number is your days free.

I'm doing it as a straight % of net worth goal times 365.

FIRE number of 1,000,000.  You have 250,000 = 25% 
25% times 365 = 91 days
91 days = April 1st

Thats the easy math that nets the same result.  (If you are using the 4% rule)

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« Reply #244 on: January 18, 2018, 09:55:24 AM »
To build off your example.

Someone spending 40,000
Stash 250,000
FIRE number 1,000,000

So today they are 25% funded. But they can't retire. Let's say they work 10 more years before pulling the trigger. Let's assume 2% inflation /year so 20% total for 10 years (simple math). That means, without any lifestyle creep, this person needs to replace 48,000 of spending, not 40,000. And thus their stash target has grown to 1,200,000 also. If they have hit their 1,000,000 target, they are not 100% funded, but only 83%.

Basically, however many "freedom days" you've bought now, they loose purchasing power with inflation just like anything else. You're investments, will out pass it, but you still need to take into account the time order difference.

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« Reply #245 on: January 18, 2018, 04:52:19 PM »
To build off your example.

Someone spending 40,000
Stash 250,000
FIRE number 1,000,000

So today they are 25% funded. But they can't retire. Let's say they work 10 more years before pulling the trigger. Let's assume 2% inflation /year so 20% total for 10 years (simple math). That means, without any lifestyle creep, this person needs to replace 48,000 of spending, not 40,000. And thus their stash target has grown to 1,200,000 also. If they have hit their 1,000,000 target, they are not 100% funded, but only 83%.

Basically, however many "freedom days" you've bought now, they loose purchasing power with inflation just like anything else. You're investments, will out pass it, but you still need to take into account the time order difference.

I'm pretty sure the consensus on here is that you re-evaluate your fire number at least annually, based on your spending.  Also, most find that they spend less in retirement.  Since its extremely rare for inflation to beat out investment returns, its generally safe to say your investments will grow more, naturally from returns, than they lose to inflation.

Beyond that, If someone determines a fire number today and blindly follows it ten years down the road without ever re-analyzing...  I think they have bigger problems.

When you adjust your FIRE number, yes you might lose some days but those are days you gained 'for free' as your investments grew over the year, but I don't think crystal ball-ing inflation numbers is going to help.  And when you adjust your fire number, if its as small as 2% then we are talking about 7.3 days.  Once things start getting exponential, it'll make even less difference.

tl:dr  - If you adjust your fire number (for example, due to inflation), you adjust your 'days purchased' and 'cost of days' numbers as well.

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« Reply #246 on: January 18, 2018, 07:43:24 PM »
My glorious cubicle calendar......in three years, only one person has asked me what it meant.

https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/journals/fire-by-thirty-five-chronicles-36-months-till-sabbatical!/msg1860531/#msg1860531

(I can't figure out how to link the picture here as it's sitting on a different computer)

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Re: I just bought 2 days per year of free life, indefinitely. 363 to go.
« Reply #247 on: January 18, 2018, 11:10:37 PM »
My glorious cubicle calendar......in three years, only one person has asked me what it meant.

https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/journals/fire-by-thirty-five-chronicles-36-months-till-sabbatical!/msg1860531/#msg1860531

(I can't figure out how to link the picture here as it's sitting on a different computer)


awesome!  here's the link if you want to put it in your post:
https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/journals/fire-by-thirty-five-chronicles-36-months-till-sabbatical!/?action=dlattach;attach=43208;image

by the way, I really like how you color coded when you achieved those dates.  It's great to see.

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« Reply #248 on: January 19, 2018, 08:56:11 AM »
I like the color coding as well.

It's interesting to track the point where investment returns start being larger than what you are contributing to the stash.

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I just bought 2 days per year of free life, indefinitely. 363 to go.
« Reply #249 on: January 22, 2018, 12:25:39 PM »
My glorious cubicle calendar......in three years, only one person has asked me what it meant.

https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/journals/fire-by-thirty-five-chronicles-36-months-till-sabbatical!/msg1860531/#msg1860531

(I can't figure out how to link the picture here as it's sitting on a different computer)


Arebelspy had suggested I add a calendar view to the freedomcalculator and your picture inspired me to do it.
Here's the updated version.
https://engaging-data.com/freedom-calculator/#calendarupdate
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