I enjoy looking at the search terms people used when stumbling on to my site.  Most make sense, others are just funny.  I thought it would be fun to directly answer some of the recent questions that were asked, which Google decided to send to me.

How do I retire by 35?

Assuming you start saving at 22 with no debt, you have 13 years to save enough money to live on for the rest of your life.  Since you will be very young at retirement and you don’t want to gamble on how long you will live, you won’t want to draw down your account.  To accomplish this, you should use a maximum of a 3% safe withdrawal rate. (If you don’t know what a SWR is, read the next question).

Let’s use real numbers going forward, and you can fill in your own numbers on More >