How to withdraw money from retirement accounts before 59 1/2?
Are you maximizing your tax-advantaged / retirement accounts but worried if you’ll have enough money if you retire early?? Worry no more!
What’s the actual math behind calculating your savings goal?
Learn the long equation over how to calculate your total needed. This is the followup to our video on How to Calculate your Savings Goal.
Social Security and You!
Get the facts about Social Security and learn how to work it into your retirement plan! Don’t wait until you are old and wrinkly! Links and Tools:Social Security Login: https://secure.ssa.gov/RIL/Social Security Act of 1935: https://www.ssa.gov/history/35act.html
Calculate your savings goal
Figure out how much money you ACTUALLY need to retire and how much you should save each month to ensure you get there! We give you the online tools, calculators, and equations to make it simple! Calculatorshttps://www.investor.gov/financial-tools-calculators/calculators/savings-goal-calculator
What to do with your savings TODAY!
¡Qué hacer con tu ahorros HOY MISMO! Are you stuffing your money under your mattress? Don’t let your savings lose their value. Maximize them and get to your retirement goal faster than expected. Come with us to learn about the 8th wonder of the world: compound interest!
Getting rid of 90% of our STUFF?!?!
Deshacernos del 90% de nuestras COSAS?!?Getting rid of 90% of our STUFF?!?! Are we crazy? Come along with us as we explain how we’re planning to get rid of more than 90% of our things as we prepare for our retirement! Downsizing is a critical component of any sort of geographic arbitrage, so we have to start getting ready now! Thanks for joining us!
What’s OUR biggest travel regret?
What’s OUR biggest travel regret? And how fixing it is helping us towards retirement? People around the world have different modes of transportation than we use in the US. Here’s how we’re approaching this as we get closer to our retirement and get ready for travel to begin again!
Budgeting for Savings!
Budgeting has allowed us to save enough to retire early and still live the life we want now. Here is an overview of how we are making that happen. It’s all about knowing where your money is going and ensuring it is being spent on what is important to you! Follow us:Twitter: @GabyJaysInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/gabyandjaysjourney/Facebook: @gabyandjay Links and Tools:Mint for budgeting: https://www.mint.comPersonal Capital to track our investments: https://share.personalcapital.com/x/3iTmBQYou Need A Budget: https://www.youneedabudget.com/
Save Money by Traveling the World! A short primer on Geographic Arbitrage
Ahorra dinero viajando por el mundo: Arbitraje geográfico When we tell people that we are planning to retire in 6 years, the first question we get is, “How?” Our answer is always: geographic arbitrage. If you want to explore the world and retire sooner, this is the strategy for you! Follow us: Twitter: @GabyJays Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gabyandjays… Facebook: @gabyandjay Links and Tools: The Earth Awaits: https://www.theearthawaits.com The CIA Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publicati… https://www.madfientist.com/early-ret… https://www.getrichslowly.org/geograp… https://www.gocurrycracker.com/the-ea… Affiliate Links: Personal Capital! We use this to track our investments: https://share.personalcapital.com/x/3… GoogleFi This is our phone plan: https://g.co/fi/r/J5Y7FW Donate if you can: https://www.feedingamerica.org/
Welcome to our Journey!
Hi everyone! We’re Gaby and Jay and we’re excited to share our journey to early retirement with you! So we set this goal for ourselves after a lot of talking with each other about what we want out of life and how we want to go about it. First, who we are: We live in Texas; Jay is originally from Chicago and moved to Texas about 15 years ago. He has family all over the country! Gaby is from Peru and Venezuela; she came to Texas about 11 years ago. Her family is very close even though they are geographically distant. Jay is a computer nerd, he has been doing…