I'm a quarter of a millionare

[bjl584]

Value of my accounts as of this morning:

$254,505.21

As a point of reference I'm 35 and earn around 62K a year.

[Petunia 100]

That's awesome, Bjl. Congrats!

[kork13]

Seriously, that's fantastic -- congrats! That's exactly the position I want to be in when I'm 35. Baby steps.....

[Permanent Temp]

That's awesome.

[bigdaddybus]

nice work!

Care to share what percentage mix you have pre tax vs after tax dollars?

[disneysteve]

Congrats! A very nice milestone to hit for sure.

Thanks to the magic of compounding, it gets easier from here and the 500K mark will come much faster.

[creditcardfree]

Great job! Isn't the compounding amazing?

[imarunner]

sweet! keep up the good work.

[JustBill]

Many congratulations! Quarter of a million has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

[bjl584]

Thank you everyone!

To answer the question about pretax versus after tax dollars, about $81K is my 401K. The rest is made up of my Roth and my taxable brokerage account and my general savings accounts.

[LivingAlmostLarge]

Congratulations! I will check mine out now.

[feh]

Wednesday was a good day - all asset classes were up. Our retirement savings reached a new round number also.

[MonkeyMama]

Congrats!

[SmartSpender]

Age

Brian thats so great, can I ask how long you've been working to get to that milestone?

[bjl584]

Brian thats so great, can I ask how long you've been working to get to that milestone?

I've been working since I turned 16. But, I didn't work full time until after I graduated college when I was 22. I started saving around that time, but I was only saving in the form of cash. The only investing that I did was through my company's 401K program. I didn't get really serious about the investing side of the equation until around 2006. That is when I opened up a taxable brokerage account and a Roth IRA.