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.

Need help with gift idea

September 2nd, 2008 at 04:27 pm

My wife and I have a wedding collage hanging in our living room. It is similar to the one in the picture.

The person which did this does not have her website running anymore. If anyone knows of anyone anywhere which can do something similar, please send me a link to their web site.

We paid close to $400 for a 24x32 framed portrait of that picture and a smaller reprint for wife's mother.

We are now trying to do either a birthday or mothers day present which is similar, except add our kids to it.

Thx

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greengirl Says:
September 8th, 2008 at 07:18 pm

have you ever looked at www.polyvore.com? i know you want a professional to do it, but you might want to have a look anyway, it might come in handy for smaller collages to do yourself.

jIM_Ohio is Investing to retire early

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

Need help with gift idea

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