Coast Fire and balancing saving

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save, invest, repeat. That will get you there every time. The less you live on with your salary the faster you get to FIRE. But if you want to make it...

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Short answer yes you can. Long answer is that you need to figure out the spending drilled down to have accurate projections. You don't run numbers because...

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What is your hobby goal $1500 net income? Or $16k a year for a roth contribution?

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Do you really think once we equalize prices with tariffs the price of goods are ever going down? Or once up they will continue to stay up? I don't think...

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we also keep our old harddrives and a hammer comes out.

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I think roughly i'll land with a $5k refund. I won't have time until end of april at the earliest to know. i have to much to work on now.

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Toyota plant is in Kentucky? Yep they build the plants in the south, but a lot of parts are made in mexico and canada and then the assembly is in the...

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Sure let's make the Taxes more complicated. Trump says that but we are having another tax bill this year. It'll be interesting if we give more tax breaks...

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Well the head of the UAW says tariffs are good to bring jobs back for his union workers. I'm curious if he realizes that people may not be buying cars...

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Ceejay writes a lot about NW and progressing to coast fire. And just using a really cool calculator about coast fire. https://walletburst.com/tools...

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The NW grows exponentially after a certain point. Mostly we both know the returns are more than the contributions. I would say that only happened in the...

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So I pulled my DH's same yeaers as you but we're older. Why was your earnings so low? Is it because so much came non-taxable? Your average wage is $62,500...

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i think if you use the envelope method and plan spending. But leave me with $20 in cash in my pocket or more and I probably couldn't tell you where i...

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Why and how can they charge less fees? My plan is soo old it's hard to beat. Even friends on google fi, mint have trouble matching the plan

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that's true but it's not budgeting unless you plan every dollar

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sounds good except it rains for a lot of the time...

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doesn't look ilike it's going back down....

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Your living expenses reimbursed is only 8% higher? That seems low....

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The qusetion should be asked if minimum wage were tied to inflation what would happen? In more expensive states then they raise it statewise. But if...

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this has always bothered me. So the minimum wage hasn't risen since 2009. Isn't that a bit ridiculous? And before then it hadn't gone up in years either....