And when you’re building stuff from scratch, you get to cater things to your own liking! Which to me meant simplicity and getting that overall *snapshot* of what the deal is here.
It took me a little extra effort and sharpening of Excel skills to put together, but I was happy to jump in and fully immerse myself in what early retirement looks like number-wise. I came across a few good places that shared close to what I was looking for (the 2nd spreadsheet over at Reddit was helpful (and detailed!), as well as this fun calculator at ), but I couldn’t find anything that was nice and simple where I could plug in a few numbers and get my snapshot without having my head explode.
As any good nerd would do in these times, I headed straight to Google for some early retirement spreadsheets to help plot my scheming.
