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Current situation: 24 yo, getting married this summer. Our finances are pretty much already combined. NW ~150k, mostly in cash and equities. Goal is to be FI in 11ish years by age 35. Currently on track to max my trad. 401k, Roth IRA, and HSA this year. From research and reading this sub, I thought even if you wanted to access funds before 59.5, the trad 401k was still probably best. We had a free session with a financial advisor recently just for the heck of it. He suggested lowering 401k contributions to just get employer match and either switch to Roth 401k or taxable investments. The rationale being that 401k money is locked up and you have to pay income tax on it even if using early withdrawal methods (72t, Roth ladder). And he argues that tax rates are likely to go up (even if we were to go down in brackets). This point makes relative sense to me but everything I've read says max traditional 401k -> HSA -> Roth IRA -> taxable investments. I definitely do want to contribute to taxable investments since the goal is aggresive. This year we are paying off student loans aggresively so are only investing a few hundred per month in taxable (and aren't budgeting to max my spouses roth IRA). So in future years we likely could max my spouses Roth IRA as well and contribute more to taxable investments. But what is the general consensus? Does it make sense to continue in traditional 401k or take some of that and put it into taxable accounts instead. TYIA Also if this context helps, HHI is 140-150k submitted by /u/Savings_Actuary_2833 [link] [comments]

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Wanted to update my previous post from 5-6 years ago. In Apr 2016 I had a net worth of $0. Between me and spouse we are now at $1,816K with a heavy mix towards our primary residence. Assets: https://imglink.cc/cdn/YgCMQ2i-th.png Liabilities: https://imglink.cc/cdn/0GBpjbZN_r.png Networth Trend Chart: https://imglink.cc/cdn/C2xS7h5O_N.png At this point im looking to add margin into my mix to drive further growth. I recently moved to my new house and converted my old property into a rental hence the big spike in debt. Our Household income is now $310K + 40K in bonsues + 40K in rental income. I live in Ontario Canada so pretty high tax rate which im starting to get frustrated with and gutted any real desire to increase my taxable income. This year we actually maxed out our RRSP and now dont have that much to work with to reduce taxes going forward. I have kinda given up on FIRE, inflation is a variable that is just too volatile and having spent the first 30 years of my life not really experiencing it and now seeing the compound effect of it and my govts decision to do nothing around it makes me feel its not really viable for me. Having given up on FIRE, made a massive lifestyle creep decision and purchase a big detached home in the suburbs for long term peace of mind (short term pain with housing costs basically doubling). submitted by /u/CADhouse [link] [comments]

GM All, (36M/35F)I know this is a small group of people that have allowed themselves the ability to embrace FIRE, but highly interested in hearing your stories. I’ve made a few posts around surpassing our FIRE goals with a plan of quitting my corporate career at the conclusion of parental leave in July. I’ve maintained a high-stress sales role in a corporate environment and admittedly, i’m not a very present person. Current plan is to quit at the conclusion of parental leave, while being added to my wife’s insurance. Ideally, take 6-12 months off, focus on family, recalibrate & decide what my future employment will look like. Brief snapshot of our Finances: 401k: $620k wife 401k: $122k IRA: $33k taxable brokerage: $497k HYSA: $132k Zero debt, home paid off annual expenses: $42k With my wife’s salary, we’d still be maxing her 401k, the IRA & investing about $1k/mo into taxable. I’m not quitting forever, but st the very least taking 6-12 months starting in August, to prioritize family. My wife wants me to quit, so that’s important to note. Anyways, for those temporary or permanent SAHM/SAHD’s, did leveraging your FIRE position improve your life? how long did you step away & did you notice anything impactful? submitted by /u/Aggravating_Bench552 [link] [comments]

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I’ll try to make this short and not drag it out. I have lived in a remote area in Canada with long harsh winters all my life. The winters are brutal with extreme colds often -40c and winter seems to drag on for 6 months. Long story short we had our first kid 2 years ago and have been talking about moving somewhere with a better climate and more outdoor activities available for our new young family. I have my mind set on 4 more years due to my wife staying home now instead of working until the kid starts school then she will go back to work. Financials are 32 years old with 820k invested in various accounts. Have about 180k in home equity. About 50k in paid off vehicles. I am a trades worker with multiple tickets usually make 180k-200k a year depending on bonuses. The area we live in is obviously a high income and low cost of living due to housing being affordable still. Currently spending roughly 60k-70k a year to live fairly comfortable. I have looked for a few jobs in the areas we want to move and it seems like they average 80k-110k a year. So definitely a drop. The housing is also a lot more expensive. Roughly double the price for a house My wife will make about 70k-80k a year when she goes back in a few years. Starting to wonder if I am just wasting time here or if the high income and low cost is worth it for 4 more years or stat to consider to move now… doesn’t seem like the investment needle moved much anymore like it used to submitted by /u/Elite163 [link] [comments]

Generalism feels powerful. Without leverage, it becomes slow. The goal is orchestration, not heroics.Continue reading on Medium »

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I’ve made two prior posts about healthcare costs and I’ve gotten some good feedback, so I’ll tempt Reddit fate with one more about planning for healthcare inflation. Early retirees worry a lot about inflation. And especially about healthcare inflation since it is likely to the the #1 cost in retirement, and premiums have been rising fast. However, if your income is under 400% of the Federal Poverty Level, budgeting for healthcare premiums in early retirement is surprisingly straightforward. Just plan for 9.96% of your household AGI (or less). For a couple at the top end of current limits, that means premiums of about $8,400 a year. Here’s an example for a couple at 399% FPL using ACA Silver benchmark Marketplace plans from my area: Age % FPL Annual Premium (Seattle, Couple) Expected Contribution Premium Tax Credit 45 399% $15,837 $8,366 $7,471 50 399% $19,588 $8,366 $11,221 55 399% $24,457 $8,366 $16,091 60 399% $29,766 $8,366 $21,399 64 399% $32,903 $8,366 $24,536 Note that your expected contribution stays the same as you age. Even though nominal premiums rise, the ACA’s premium tax credit automatically adjusts, so your premium remains stable. MAGI limits and ACA subsidies are also indexed for inflation, so your expected contribution stays roughly the same year to year. Yes, of course, this assumes the ACA stays in place. These estimates assume a silver plan, so you’ll have cheaper bronze plans and more expensive gold plans to choose from. If you’re not planning on subsidies, or your income is above 400% FPL, you can still make some estimates. Look online, pick the age you’re retiring (like 50), take the premium rate, and inflate it by at least 8% per year (roughly 4% age-graded increase + 4% healthcare inflation). For example, if the premium at 50 is ~$20,000/year, I think your budget should allow for 20,000×1.08¹⁴ ≈ $57,500 by the time you’re 64. Without the subsidies to insulate you, that is obviously a substantial number to plan for. I know the general withdrawal sequence has people exhausting their taxable accounts first and saving Roth for last, but I think people might hedge a bit to ensure they have ways to carefully manage their MAGI in the final years before they are on Medicare, because that's when income management will matter the most. submitted by /u/bridgeandretire [link] [comments]

AI is becoming a commodity. It’s not a matter of if, but when — and more importantly, who pays for it.Continue reading on Write A Catalyst »

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GM All Hoping to connect and better understand your strategies in ensuring your portfolio is as close to resilient & bulletproof as possible. It seems many are quick to list their balances, but not so much how they diversified to weather SORR. Let me know where you’re at! Here’s a look at my portfolio & plan: 36M/35F Annual Expenses: $42k Debt: Zero (Home paid off, worth $550k) 401k: $602k Spouse 401k: $116k IRA: $33,500 Taxable Account: $483,000 HYSA: $133k * Hovering around 32x Expenses Plan is to increase HYSA to $150k as a volatility buffer, while also allocating $65k to SGOV within taxable. (hoping to achieve by June/July) So we’ll have roughly 5 years cash/cash equivalents to ensure we never have to sell in a downturn. While many won’t agree with the cash position, it’s a value we’re comfortable with given how much we already have in equities. Our portfolio with conservative returns, assuming no further contributions, in theory, will allow us to retire together in 8-9 years. Ultimately, we’ll transition to part-time work simply to cover healthcare and offset expenses. I’m confident in our strategy, but curious to hear your approach. submitted by /u/Aggravating_Bench552 [link] [comments]

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Trying to sanity check my tax strategy. I’m 36 with ~$530K in a traditional 401(k), fully invested in index funds, and I’ve been maxing it out. Planning to retire somewhere between 45–55. What I’m struggling with: it seems like there’s a limit to how much you can realistically convert to Roth each year without jumping into higher tax brackets. Even with ~15–20 years before RMDs, it feels like a large pre-tax balance could outgrow my ability to convert it efficiently. If that’s true, I’m wondering if I should already be shifting strategy: * Keep maxing traditional * Switch to Roth 401(k) * Redirect more to taxable/Roth At what point does a pre-tax balance become “too big”? Would you still max traditional in this situation, or start diversifying now? submitted by /u/WSBtoFIRE [link] [comments]

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two years ago I made a somewhat memey post about finally hitting -50k. Made some decent progress in the two years and learned some things about me. Last year i was diagnosed with bipolar2, which is relevant in this context because one of the symptoms is reduced impulse control, which in turn results in excessive online shopping. In fact I spent 8.000€ I had saved before getting the diagnosis. Now I'm properly medicated and being aware of the symptom helps me manage my spending. I settled on 3 different bank accounts, one for all the regular expenses, one for fun money and one for food. this helps keep an easy overview of my spending and enforces limits on how much i can spend. another step was no more overdraft accounts at all. this was a big problem for me ever since i got my first job, the maximum limit i had was 8.000€. I still have 4 credits running, which I pay off at 1.000€ per month in total, last one runs out in 2030. In the past I was kind of obsessed with ETFs (MSCI world) and prioritised my saving plan over repaying my overdraft account or having an emergency fund. After spending my saved ETF I settled on the recommended approach of instead first having a proper emergency fund. I'm currently sitting at ~5,5k € in my emergency fund (high yielding savings account with 2.5%). I'm aiming for 10k €, which is a bit below the 3x net monthly salary. Currently earning 4.000€ per month after taxes (~80k p.a. before taxes, in germany steuerklasse1). Pretty happy with my progress overall. submitted by /u/Elux91 [link] [comments]

I wanted to give the community a 12 month update on my sabbatical/career break. Lot of context is in my last four posts (original, first update, 3 month, 6 month), but here’s some TLDR; from earlier threads: Previously Engineering Manager in Big Tech, 40s, Bay Area, major breadwinner in a family of 4 with young kids. 15+ years working in Tech, burnt out, didn’t see much hope for progress, so quit to take a break instead of jumping to new job right away. Not fully retiring as we still rent, and prefer to buy a home somewhere to “settle down” and that somewhere cannot be bay area at this NW if I retire. Finances: Net worth jumped up to 6.1M in Feb/March 2026, but now back to 5.9M. Still up 350k YoY, basically since I left my net worth grew by 350k. We are averaging 16k/month in expenses (including rent). Wife makes ~2k/month, so we are netting at 14k/month. The expenses included some crazy spending to stay at an all inclusive resort in Mexico during new years. Plus all the extra traveling due to my free time. Our travel expenses in 2025 ($25k) were double that of 2024 ($12k). How I spent the 12 months? First month was very productive. Attended lot of events/meetups, took a course on AI etc Next 1.5 months were slow. Family got sick one by one. Next 2 months were summer break. Spent the whole time with kids. We did a lot more local trips this year than in any past summer + one short fly-out trip. I also cooked a lot and did some major home organization. Last 1.5 months were not so great as I felt a bit lost once kids when to school and I had nothing to do. Next 3 months were eventful. I decided to participate in a few AI related regular meetups. That kept me intellectually engaged. And all the other free time was taken up by festivals (Diwali, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, NYE) and travel. Last 3 months were terrible. I will talk about it next I can’t believe it's been a year. The last 3 months went by too fast. But in some ways they were excruciatingly slow too. I started interviewing, so that’s what took over all of my time. The interview process sucks - the preparation, the practice and the trying-to-impress-people part sucks the most. And right now the job market sucks too. I got rejected from positions I was a perfect fit for, I got rejected from places I got accepted a few years earlier and I got rejected from my backup options too. It was not all terrible though. I started playing around with coding agents and had a lot of fun building things with Claude and Codex on the side. And I have almost fully stopped preparing for interviews. 3 months of preparation is enough. Now I just practice before upcoming interviews. So here I am. No job. Still on a career break, this time not of my own volition. And with worse health. Why am I looking to work again? Great question readers. It is a question I have not fully internalized myself. I do have an outline of the plan reasoning. I decided to look for jobs back in December 2025, when coding agents were not this powerful. At that time I was missing a purpose in life. Don’t misunderstand me, the break so far had been great. I would recommend everyone to take career breaks / sabbaticals in between jobs. I traveled, I meditated, I slacked off as much as I wanted, attended concerts, went to the beach a ton, rewatched Star Trek TNG and Game of Thrones end to end, cooked, cleaned, played with kids, read some, wrote some, met friends, lost weight and got healthier. The only thing I missed was something external driving my life. It sounds terrible when I say it like that. But it is true. These things can fill up your time, but your mind is still unoccupied. Actually my mind was occupied, but it was with things I didn’t want it to: politics, world affairs etc. Overall it felt like I didn’t have a strong internal purpose directing my time, energy and headspace, so I started missing that external drive. A job would give me that. I just need to make sure I like the work, people etc. I also missed the camaraderie that a job provides. I realized this more when I ended up meeting my old team for dinner and realized that I actually missed them. I looked elsewhere, but most of my friends are still working and are busier than ever. I couldn’t find a tribe to give me company. To be honest, I might have not tried too hard either given that it was a temporary break. Maybe full retirement won’t be that bad? On the monetary side, I needed to go back to work to add some more cushion to my net worth. We want to “settle down”, which means buying a house. All for good reasons: having a consistent set of neighbors, having kids attend the same neighborhood schools, and getting involved in the community around us, instead of living like a temporary resident. This meant that if we stayed in the Bay Area, I would need more money to be able to afford a decent house here (in the kinds of neighborhoods we want to live in). The other option was to move to an MCOL location. I could theoretically retire there, but I wasn’t fully happy with the high 90% chances of success based on my FIRE scenario calculations. I prefer 100%. And more importantly I wanted to retire with a good quality of life (QoL). What exactly is QoL? For FIRE purposes, I decided it meant how much of my preferred discretionary spending I am able to accommodate during retirement (assuming essentials are always funded). Based on that definition, I realized that I can retire, but not with the best quality of life. So, again, the conclusion was to make some more money. So here I am. Looking for a remote job, preferably, so that I can move MCOL and retire sooner. But in the worst case, I will take an in-person job, buy a < $2M townhome in the bay area and retire here after a few years. In the meantime, I will enjoy my daytime movie theatre visits (AMC A-list is great value!) and the free time to build things. Hopefully I will start to focus on my health again. submitted by /u/allrite [link] [comments]

Hey FIRE people. I've been around Reddit a long time, and done various stints of moderation. There are always things that are happening on the internet that come and go and effect how we moderate this subreddit. Our mod team wants to give full transparency and talk to you about a big shift we're seeing here and on other subs. Fuckin' bots. We've been seeing a HUGE influx of top-level posts that essentially are AI/bots. Now, you might have spotted some of these in the past, or looked at a post and thought that it looked funny. But they're getting different/better. Just yesterday, we removed dozens of top-level posts. /u/Zphr alone found 2 or 3 posts in which a bot had taken a popular post that he created months ago, jumbled around some of the paragraphs, and changed some of the capitalization before reposting it. It is becoming harder and harder to go through all of the posts being created, and try to do deep research on each one to verify it's authenticity. From now on, we have an automoderator rule that will immediately remove posts from accounts that have too-low karma from our subreddit. What does this mean? It means that people need to participate in the Daily Thread to some degree before posting a top-level one. The only part of this plan that is concerning is that we all value people posting anonymously when they share their financial details. If you need to post using a throwaway, you'll just have to message the mod team first. TL;DR: Bots made us change the rules. Mods, feel free to chime in if I missed something. Edit: I wanted to add that while the posting requirements were already strict in this sub, we really don't want to discourage people from posting legitimate content. There is a very thin line between content moderation and squashing the vibe. submitted by /u/lauren_knows [link] [comments]