I YOLO’d My Money, Now I Have No Retirement
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🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | brought to you by the every dollar app start budgeting for free today we're going to go to lancaster |
| 0:07.6 | pennsylvania tom is there tom how can we help hi guys hey uh yeah i'm 60 to 61 june uh zero in |
| 0:16.7 | retirement uh my wife and i bring in about $7,200 a month after taxes. |
| 0:22.6 | That's clear. |
| 0:23.8 | I have about $26,000 in debt right now between credit cards and personal loans and the |
| 0:30.1 | tax billets do the end of June. |
| 0:33.3 | I have my budget out. |
| 0:34.8 | Everything's done. |
| 0:36.5 | My question is in October when they are paid off, I would like to do a max out two Roth IRAs and then do my 401K at work. |
| 0:49.9 | That still leaves me about 2,000 a month extra to invest. |
| 0:54.4 | Where is the best place to put that? |
| 0:56.6 | So I get the most return on it for the next four and a half years, five years. |
| 1:03.2 | What happens after five years? |
| 1:05.3 | I would like to retire when I'm 65. |
| 1:07.7 | Oh, boy. |
| 1:08.7 | Well, I wish you could just announce that once you turn 65, you get to. |
| 1:14.0 | Man. I would like to do that. I would love that for you, Tom, but I don't know that the numbers will work out if you just stopped working. |
| 1:22.4 | Yeah, we're going to get about, we'll get no less than 4,000 a month from Social Security, and I took in the fact |
| 1:28.4 | in 2034, it's supposed to go down 80%, so I have all those numbers crunched in there and everything. |
| 1:36.0 | My thought is if I can get around $150,000 to $160, 175, I can take an extra $1,500 a month out of the investments, and that's at 8%, |
| 1:49.1 | average in 8%. I know it's pretty aggressive. We have a fidelity growth fund in it at work, |
| 1:57.0 | which is average is 8 to 12. So I've looked at that. So I've done some homework, but I'm just |
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