About Me

jIM

I am a 35yo married and father of twins. I will update the photos once in a while. They were born 3 months early in March of 2008 and went through a tough first 4 months. They are now doing well.

Retirement checkpoints
( ) $1.5 M needed age 53 2026
( ) $750k needed age 45 2018
( ) $375k needed age 37 2010
( ) $180k needed age 29 2002

I had 200k before the drop in 2008. I need to set aside around 200k in next 2.5 years to get early retirement.

[ ] max 401k for me
[ ] max 401k for wife
[x] max Roth for me
[x] max Roth for wife
[x] start taxable portfolio
[ ] 3 months expenses in EF
[ ] 9 months expenses in taxable account
[ ] open college savings account for kids
[ ] dividend income equals half of annual expenses
[ ] pay off 2nd mortgage by 2013
[ ] pay off 1st mortgage by 2026
[ ] finance next car for 3 years or less
[ ] pay cash for my next car around 2016
[ ] start a TIPs 10 year bond ladder by 2016.

Twins update II

April 24th, 2008 at 06:45 am

DS1 weighs 3 lbs 4 oz
DS2 weighs 3 lbs 4 oz

boys are stable and gaining weight (still), so things appear to be on up and up.

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7 Responses to “Twins update II”

Petunia Says:
April 24th, 2008 at 07:19 am

Woo hoo! Grow twins grow!
miclason Says:
April 24th, 2008 at 07:34 am

Amazing! Wonderful!
Grow, Babies, Grow!
boomeyers Says:
April 24th, 2008 at 10:37 am

C'mon babies, grow, GROW!! Glad they are doing so well!
Frayed Buckeye Card Says:
April 24th, 2008 at 12:17 pm

Your news about your sons is wonderful. I have been in the neonatal of Children's for two grandchilden. The care is excellent. Or are you at Good Sam? Care and prayer will get them through. God bless your family.
zakity Says:
April 27th, 2008 at 11:59 am

Hey! If you have twins questions, I am on a cool twins site. It is www.gottwinz.net. It is great for all kinds of questions and venting and stuff. And, what is even more great, we have been there. There is a "NICU" section that might be helpful right now. It is so hard when they are early and have to be in the NICU.

I so hope they are just feeder/growers.
SnoopyCool Says:
April 30th, 2008 at 12:41 pm

Here's for gaining weight. Go twins go!
Livingalmostlarge Says:
April 30th, 2008 at 02:03 pm

Good job! And where's the newer pictures?

jIM_Ohio is Investing to retire early

Instead of making retirement a question, make it a sport- can I do it and how fast?

Twins update II

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