I have been planning my retirement for nearly eleven years. Most of that time has been spent maximizing my savings but not thinking about spending it. The market downturn following the dot com bubble bursting was painful, but I never considered changing my investment strategy and I am now seeing the benefits. Once you have a sizable chuck of money in your retirement account, it becomes more real and I started to think about being able to spend some of the money.
A major shift occurred in 2006 when I married the perfect woman. She quickly figured out I would be the primary financial number cruncher in our relationship and has helped me in numerous ways. She is personally responsible for taking 5+ years off my working career, to quantify a concrete instance.
Since the plan is to retire before either myself or my wife turn sixty, I suppose this counts as an early retirement (ER) blog, although it also details our plans to become financialy independent (FI), so it's both kinds of blogs. We'll take a look at investments, taxes, spending habits and try to tie everything togther.
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