Getting FIREd up 😀

South_coast

Aaargh, current pension app and website are down for maintenance until 6.00pm - why do they always do this on the first 🤦‍♀️? Am persevering though, everything else is down, so I am leaning hard on blind optimism that the one thing I've actually contributed to will be my salvation 🤣🤣🤣

(Talk amongst yourselves for a few hours....)

edinburgher

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82188572#Comment_82188572

🙄 About time SC! 🤣

South_coast

OK, so it wasn't worth waiting for 😅

First of the month round-up....

• Savings for retirement: -£845.94
• Average needed per month to retire in 9 years: £4,106.06
• Rolling 12-month average: £1,852.73 😬
• Getting FIREd up starts: April 2027
• Repaying pots until: October 2027

£500 knocked off the rolling average in a single month again! I really hope that actually getting FIREd up in April starts to reverse this trend!

In other news, it's 1 November and I am already fed up with the Christmas adverts. Sainsbury's are featuring the BFG for the second year running - why??? What am I missing 🤷‍♀️?

And that's before I've even heard Noddy Holder or Wizzard....

South_coast

In slightly more positive news, my spreadsheet tells me I am 29.0% of the way to achieving retirement in 9 years 👍

edinburgher

I have noticed a wee bit of synchronicity between our monthly rises and falls when it's the market that's to blame, not our own genius/mistakes. For better or worse, that's pretty impressive considering you're investing for one and we're a couple 💪

South_coast

Thanks Ed 🩷