Comments on: Almost There on the Roth http://www.moneycrush.com/almost-there-on-the-roth/ Obliterate financial stress. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:05:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jackie http://www.moneycrush.com/almost-there-on-the-roth/comment-page-1/#comment-1189 Jackie Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:24:45 +0000 http://www.moneycrush.com/?p=1815#comment-1189 Will do. Will do.

]]> By: Budgeting in the Fun Stuff http://www.moneycrush.com/almost-there-on-the-roth/comment-page-1/#comment-1185 Budgeting in the Fun Stuff Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:56:30 +0000 http://www.moneycrush.com/?p=1815#comment-1185 If you find out why, please pass it on. Hopefully it will be moot for us by the end of this year since we should have 2 Roth IRA's by then, but I'm very interested. :-) If you find out why, please pass it on. Hopefully it will be moot for us by the end of this year since we should have 2 Roth IRA’s by then, but I’m very interested. :-)

]]> By: Jackie http://www.moneycrush.com/almost-there-on-the-roth/comment-page-1/#comment-1184 Jackie Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:35:47 +0000 http://www.moneycrush.com/?p=1815#comment-1184 Ah ok, that makes sense. It seems to me there is a reason why it may be a good idea to have separate retirement accounts though. Hm, I'll have to see if I can remember what that was. Ah ok, that makes sense. It seems to me there is a reason why it may be a good idea to have separate retirement accounts though. Hm, I’ll have to see if I can remember what that was.

]]> By: Budgeting in the Fun Stuff http://www.moneycrush.com/almost-there-on-the-roth/comment-page-1/#comment-1178 Budgeting in the Fun Stuff Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:26:42 +0000 http://www.moneycrush.com/?p=1815#comment-1178 I was over-summarizing...which was lazy. We auto-contribute $300 a month to our Roth IRA. That leaves us with contributing the other $1400 a year. We're $400 away from contributing that $1400 for 2010. We'll also still need to contribute the rest of the $300 auto payments. I always seem to blow off our automated savings... Since we are using all of our retirment accounts jointly (pension, 401k, Roth IRA, and Scottrade), we just never bothered to open another Roth IRA since we barely were able to hit $5000 a year for one...this year we should have a little extra to open another Roth since we won't be paying for graduate school anymore. I have our full list of expenses as a post over at my blog...we're doing what we can to retire by the age of 52 on a teacher's and office worker's salary. I was over-summarizing…which was lazy. We auto-contribute $300 a month to our Roth IRA. That leaves us with contributing the other $1400 a year. We’re $400 away from contributing that $1400 for 2010. We’ll also still need to contribute the rest of the $300 auto payments. I always seem to blow off our automated savings…

Since we are using all of our retirment accounts jointly (pension, 401k, Roth IRA, and Scottrade), we just never bothered to open another Roth IRA since we barely were able to hit $5000 a year for one…this year we should have a little extra to open another Roth since we won’t be paying for graduate school anymore.

I have our full list of expenses as a post over at my blog…we’re doing what we can to retire by the age of 52 on a teacher’s and office worker’s salary.

]]> By: Jackie http://www.moneycrush.com/almost-there-on-the-roth/comment-page-1/#comment-1169 Jackie Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:37:39 +0000 http://www.moneycrush.com/?p=1815#comment-1169 For 2010? Either way, that's great! Have you thought about starting one for your husband and then just splitting the funding half and half? Or maybe that doesn't work out for what you do with the money in the Roth... For 2010? Either way, that’s great! Have you thought about starting one for your husband and then just splitting the funding half and half? Or maybe that doesn’t work out for what you do with the money in the Roth…

]]> By: Budgeting in the Fun Stuff http://www.moneycrush.com/almost-there-on-the-roth/comment-page-1/#comment-1159 Budgeting in the Fun Stuff Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:52:33 +0000 http://www.moneycrush.com/?p=1815#comment-1159 Congrats on the Roth! We need to come up with another $400 to finish off our current Roth IRA for this year and then actually start another one for my husband... Congrats on the Roth!

We need to come up with another $400 to finish off our current Roth IRA for this year and then actually start another one for my husband…

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