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Re: SWR milestone record

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 2:04 pm
by Hristo Botev
2010: Six figures in debt (mostly student loans)
1/31/2016 (started tracking): 62.04% (155.52% excluding home equity and kids' 529 accounts)
2016 (avg mo. 2016 expenses*12/end of year NW #s): 43.34% (85.09%)
2017 (avg mo. 2017 expenses*12/end of year NW #s): 39.07% (76.29%)
7/31/2018 (July expenses*12/July NW #s): 26.07% (44.85%)

Re: SWR milestone record

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2018 8:49 pm
by 2Birds1Stone
1/1/2011 - 120%
1/1/2012 - 80.0%
1/1/2013 - 58.5%
1/1/2014 - 36.7%
1/1/2015 - 20.7%
1/1/2016 - 14.4%
1/1/2017 - 8.8%
1/1/2018 - 6.4%

10/1/2018 - 4.51

Re: SWR milestone record

Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2018 1:25 pm
by wolf
3,8% (based on ultra low expenses of the last 12 months plus health insurance I'd have to pay if I RE, but without any margin of safety) Nevertheless :)

Re: SWR milestone record

Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2018 1:26 pm
by prognastat
@Wolf

Congrats, what is your goal? You must be getting pretty close.

Re: SWR milestone record

Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2018 1:28 pm
by wolf
my goal: <3% with a margin of safety of 100% (I would answer you today, but things could change. You never know)

Re: SWR milestone record

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 3:59 am
by Bankai
@wolf - are you saying <1.5% then? What are you factoring in? Supporting more humans or just spending way more? Good job reaching 4%!

Re: SWR milestone record

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:40 am
by 2Birds1Stone
Congrats Wolf! Do you find it get's easier for the WR% to drop once you got to 4%?

Re: SWR milestone record

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 9:11 pm
by Gilberto de Piento
2Birds1Stone wrote:
Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:40 am
Do you find it get's easier for the WR% to drop once you got to 4%?
I'm not sure I understood all of it but there was a discussion about the relative difficulty of changes in WR at different points at viewtopic.php?t=8112

Re: SWR milestone record

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2018 3:20 pm
by 2Birds1Stone
1/1/2011 - 120%
1/1/2012 - 80.0%
1/1/2013 - 58.5%
1/1/2014 - 36.7%
1/1/2015 - 20.7%
1/1/2016 - 14.4%
1/1/2017 - 8.8%
1/1/2018 - 6.4%

11/1/2018 - 4.46%

Re: SWR milestone record

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2018 4:05 pm
by OTCW
1.6%

Re: SWR milestone record

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2018 5:58 pm
by TopHatFox
7000/70000 = .10

Although since I'm living with the parents w/o rent, it's more like

3000/70000 = .036

:lol:

Re: SWR milestone record

Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2018 5:20 am
by 2Birds1Stone
1/1/2011 - 120%
1/1/2012 - 80.0%
1/1/2013 - 58.5%
1/1/2014 - 36.7%
1/1/2015 - 20.7%
1/1/2016 - 14.4%
1/1/2017 - 8.8%
1/1/2018 - 6.4%

12/1/2018 - 4.29%

Re: SWR milestone record

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2018 12:13 pm
by Lemur
12/01/2018 - 32.97%. Investments are at $91,000. The aim is $750,000. Goal for next year is to increase investments while keeping the goal number the same or reduced.

Re: SWR milestone record

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2018 2:06 pm
by cmonkey
Jan 2015 - 100%
Oct 2015 - 50%
Apr 2016 - 25%
May 2017 - 10%
November 2018 - 5%

Currently at 4.87% and set to hit 4% next May.

Re: SWR milestone record

Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2018 6:09 am
by Lemur
cmonkey wrote:
Wed Dec 05, 2018 2:06 pm
Jan 2015 - 100%
Oct 2015 - 50%
Apr 2016 - 25%
May 2017 - 10%
November 2018 - 5%

Currently at 4.87% and set to hit 4% next May.
Incredible progress cmonkey.

Re: SWR milestone record

Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2018 11:04 am
by cmonkey
Lemur wrote:
Wed Dec 26, 2018 6:09 am
Incredible progress cmonkey.
Thanks! Mostly due to cutting expenses by about 30%.

However, currently back up to 5.47%.....

Re: SWR milestone record

Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2018 11:17 am
by prognastat
Well hopefully the market will start going back up in the near future.

Re: SWR milestone record

Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2018 8:17 am
by thegreatvoid
31/12/2018 .. 3.8 %
but my Investment Returns have not been able to cover my projected ERE expenses yet.
and I don´t own a home.

Re: SWR milestone record

Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2018 12:41 pm
by 2Birds1Stone
1/1/2011 - 120%
1/1/2012 - 80.0%
1/1/2013 - 58.5%
1/1/2014 - 36.7%
1/1/2015 - 20.7%
1/1/2016 - 14.4%
1/1/2017 - 8.8%
1/1/2018 - 6.4%
1/1/2019 - 4.2%

This shit really works.......expenses dropped 28% this year, fuck you Mr. Stock Market.

Re: SWR milestone record

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 1:09 pm
by Seabourne
Well, at the last Chicago get-together it was suggested that I should post about a successful across the finish line. I'll throw something up in the Journals, but for here I can pull out my trusty tracking spreadsheet (started in 2006). For the WR, i'm just going to use my ballpark current budget without worrying about historical spending, since in retirement is what we're all really shooting for (~$100/day = $36,525/year). For what it's worth, I'm using June numbers because 1) I have a large unusual investment that reprices 1/year in about March and 2) I started it after January 2006 and ballparked backwards a couple of months, so June is closer to real and 3) I retired June 1, 2018, so it gives a good end date snapshot:

WR
6/2006: 54.4%
6/2007: 38.6%
6/2008: 28.7%
6/2009: 26.0%
6/2010: 14.9%
6/2011: 10.4%
6/2012: 9.1%
6/2013: 7.4%
6/2014: 8.3%
6/2015: 6.6%
6/2016: 5.9%
6/2017: 4.6%
6/2018: 3.6%


notes: retired on 6/1/18 at age 39. Will see an increase in early 2019 as the price at which company stock is held is annually revalued and I get cashed out (had to leave the firm to be allowed to sell it), so while the 3.6% may seem a little aggressive, there is a reasonable bump coming as part of the exit. I'm estimating that the price change will mean 6/2019 ought to be right at 3.0%. While my wife has savings as well, I've been tracking them well before we met, so this is just mine, but covers all of our expenses - we are treating her savings as a safety backstop and they are ignored here. For what it's worth, I started paying attention and saving before this spreadsheet, but really only focused on it starting about 1-2 years earlier, so if you're starting out, this is a reasonably lucky but possible path.