I started serious Investing Journey in Jan 2000 to create wealth through long-term investing and short-term trading; but as from April 2013 my Journey in Investing has changed to create Retirement Income for Life till 85 years old in 2041 for two persons over market cycles of Bull and Bear.

Since 2017 after retiring from full-time job as employee; I am moving towards Investing Nirvana - Freehold Investment Income for Life investing strategy where 100% of investment income from portfolio investment is cashed out to support household expenses i.e. not a single cent of re-investing!

It is 57% (2017 to Aug 2022) to the Land of Investing Nirvana - Freehold Income for Life!


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Sunday 30 March 2014

Retirement Income for Life??? (14) - How much is enough for retirement?



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The most practical way to know how much is enough for you to retire!!!


Instead of looking for that magical number as it may not be $1M, $2M or $XM for you and me; you should determine that magical number based on your historical family yearly expenses and make an educated estimation of how much is enough with inflation adjustment.

You should start tracking your yearly family expenses at least on high level basis if you haven't done so.

There is no excuse of not doing it as there is simple and easy way to do it.

One simple and easy way of tracking family expenses is to dedicate one bank account for family expenses e.g. GIROs, NETS, credit cards, ATM cash-out, online payment etc.

You credit part of your salary or bonus into this bank account and debit your all family expenses and spending from this bank account.

Every month you just need to download the bank statement once and copy it into your Excel worksheet to maintain it as historical records.

Whenever you have idle or spare time then you may like to work on these records to update your monthly family expenses.


Read? Two Bank Accounts? No, You may need Four! - (4)


See Uncle8888's tracking:












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