Comments on: Dave Ramsey’s 7 Baby Steps: What Are They and Do They Actually Work? https://dollarsprout.com/dave-ramsey-baby-steps/ Maximize your earning potential Wed, 25 Jan 2023 15:54:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 By: James C Price https://dollarsprout.com/dave-ramsey-baby-steps/#comment-83573 Tue, 17 Aug 2021 19:29:39 +0000 https://staging.dollarsprout.com/?p=30549#comment-83573 To pay off your debts the fastest you should pay down the highest interest debt first. If you need the satisfaction of seeing progress, keep a balance of total debt and celebrate the total debt reduction at predefined milestones. Further, keep a calendar of your celebrations. Be encouraged by the fact the celebrations are coming around faster and faster.

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By: Ben Huber https://dollarsprout.com/dave-ramsey-baby-steps/#comment-50247 Thu, 17 Sep 2020 21:57:24 +0000 https://staging.dollarsprout.com/?p=30549#comment-50247 In reply to Alex Scott.

Not imbecile at all. If you tinker with a retirement calculator, you can adjust your yearly retirement income (how much you draw down each year), and get a vague idea of where you stand. As it looks, you have about a networth of around $750k, assuming no debt. As such, you can feasibly retire today and spend about $60k/yr in retirement (with TOD at 80 years old). Obviously that’s a pretty early TOD and most planners say to plan for 30 years, so you’d have to tighten up and consider living on far less than $60k/yr.

(This all assumes you sell your home to free up that cash). If you anticipate $40-$50k in yearly spending, your nest egg would last until your mid-80s it appears.

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By: Alex Scott https://dollarsprout.com/dave-ramsey-baby-steps/#comment-49892 Sat, 12 Sep 2020 02:22:16 +0000 https://staging.dollarsprout.com/?p=30549#comment-49892 Scenario: I’m 62. Happy hermit. Would like to retire at or before 64. I’ve paid off my house that will net $400,000 when sold. Estranged orphan/widow. $50,000 in cash. $100,000 IRA. $200,000 in anticipated SS over the rest of my lifetime. TOD scenarios pegged at 80. Land and house in Kentucky picked out. Want to cash out and go sit on my porch with pets now. Brilliant or imbecile? Thoughts?

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