Your method of basing your retirement savings amount on your expenses is much more effective than basing it on pre-retirement salary. Others have pointed out the 25x rule of thumb where your retirement savings should equal 25x your annual expenses.

Thank you for sharing these links!

I was thinking about that number, and I think that there may be a few reasons for it.

Good work!

This article is very different (and likely much better) than my method:

Wow, that’s kind of scary. But it sounds like what you experienced was an exception.

...the video doorbell’s battery can overheat if the wrong type of screws are used to install the device.

I was all about the 1994 Dodge Ram when I was a kid. It was such a revolutionary change to go from a design that looked like it was 20 years old when it was brand new to something that looked like it belonged in a comic book.

Has anyone ever clicked on this button?

I am going to be the laughingstock of my wine club!

I thought that the “COVID Slide” was a fad dance that we’d all be doing at weddings once it’s safe to gather in person again.

I’ve seen pictures of this vehicle before, and apparently I always had a skewed view of its scale. Absent any context, I thought that it was sized about the same as a hot hatch — a VW Golf or a Hyundai Veloster.

...new MyMcDonald’s app, which will use A.I. to tailor offerings to your personal tastes...

I am not enough of a snob to have these wine bottle size names memorized, but I am just enough of a geek to know that they exist.

Interesting that N cars are big news right now. Apparently Lee Iacocca was a few decades and a few letters ahead of his time.

“I think Gordon Lightfoot was the boat.”

...according to cult deprogrammer Rick Ross in his book .

This sounds cool. I’d love to see some photos of this event.

I very rarely follow the ad links in these NP-or-ND posts, but I did today, and it was the best decision I’ve made in a while.

I have some parent friends who “withhold taxes” from their children’s allowances.  They are depositing the “tax” into an interest-earning account in the kid’s name which they intend to reveal to them when they’re older.