Comments on: How Big Is Your 401K Balance?

By: valeriejean11@hotmail.com

valeriejean11@hotmail.com — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:58:24 +0000

okay. how do you know what is in your 401k? I feel like an idiot!

By: Rich Konzervatif

Rich Konzervatif — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:26:13 +0000

I see that you cens, uh, removed my informative statement.

It’s no wonder that liberal constituents never learn and people like me turn them green with envy and jealousy.

So much for tolerant liberals. C’est la vie…

By: Cary

Cary — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:49:07 +0000

Well this article and bloggers seem to be a bunch of boaster loosers at a quick glance but I could be judging incorrectly!

It’s great that people are saving but don’t fixate of the balance. The reason I bring this up is point is that preople in this blog have frazes like ‘my balance is $x so I dropped my contribution rate so I could ???? spend more/leave employment/false taxable investment and I’m only X years old.

Just before you say I’m bitter and old, you cannot be more wrong in age or savings status however I know what retirement is and how long it will be.

Just remember the younger the savings the better, as any finacial advisor will tell you, you will be; However being googled eyed about your 401K balance should wait until you are closer to retirement

By: Belinda

Belinda — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:08:31 +0000

I peddle my sorry, sagging ass to crack addicts on the UES of Manhatten, and I’m setting this cash asside for my retirement. Also, I am thinking of bidding on Barney’s Nixon potatoe (see above post). That investment will certainly do better than any 401k with today’s stock market.

By: Harold

Harold — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:31:18 +0000

I have an apple core that Elvis threw in the trash just before he died. Also, I used to have a job at Yankee Stadium cleaning toilets in the clubhouse. I have one of Roger Clemens’ old jockstraps. I will be selling these items and investing the proceeds for my retirement. I also have $21.49 set aside in my Roth IRA. I’m quite a catch ladies…..

By: Barney

Barney — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:14:24 +0000

I have a 1 cent stamp and an old potatoe that resembles Richard Nixon that I’m trying to sell on e-bay. These are my retirement assets. My wife is a crack whore and brings in about $65 a week hooking at the local gas station. Fill ‘er up for $5. Our son works as a barker in a traveling carnival. He’s in line for a promotion to ticket seller for the Tilt-a-whirl next spring. Daughter has 6 fingers on her left hand and has a lip fingus. She sells maps to movie star’s homes and on weekends helps Mom at her gas station post.
Our future looks almost as bright as Louis, Jack and Alex who posted here.

By: ms

ms — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:14:53 +0000

how do I check my current 401k balance
is there an online facility where I can regularly check my current 401k balance. I left US 7 years back and want to withdraw my 401k money

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:24:17 +0000

I have 30 soda cans to return for deposit. That combined with my savings account gives me about $149 put away for my Golden years. I am 63 years old. Needless to say, I will work until I die.

By: Louis

Louis — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:51:39 +0000

I have 968k in my 401k. I’m 55. I am an investment banker. I just inherited $14 million from my mothers’s estate. She was an attorney. I own properties on both the East and West Coast, as well as a villa in Rome Italy. I own half of a Major Leagure baseball team. My wife is a physician (dermatolgist). She is 50, she has $4.3 million in retirement accounts. I will be retiring this year. Wife wants to keep working, she earns $750k per year. (We have twin sons, both in Medical school. One is going to be a Dermatologist, the other a Pediatrician.)
Quite frankly I don’t know how the people who have posted on this site will make it with their meager amounts saved for retirement. Even with what my wife and I have set aside, I’m still concered about our lifestyle post retirement. We may have to sell the Villa in Rome. I guess we all have to make sacrifices.

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:12:48 +0000

wife and I have $6.4 million in 401k and IRA combined. I am 57, she is 56. Also have $7.4 million in liquid accounts. Own antique autos valued at $900k. I am a Pathologist, wife is a Radiologist. I will retire in 3 years, wife to retire at end of 2007.

By: nick

nick — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:54:30 +0000

6500 in 401k, 4000 in roth ira. 25 years old and have been contributing for 18 months.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 03:13:14 +0000

I have $37 million put away for retirement (won the Lottery last year)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:12:30 +0000

rolled over 49k in 2005, worth 93k today,

By: alex

alex — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 02:25:22 +0000

Wife and I are both 56 years old and both retired last year. I have 1.9 million in tax deferred retirement accounts, 1.5 million in liquid accounts, wife has approx 980k in her 401k. We have been saving for about 30 years. I have approx $3 million in commercial real esate investments. I was a pharmacist, wife was an architect. We inherited $9.2 million from my father’s estate last year. (He was a plastic surgeon for 30 years in Beverly Hills) We summer in the Adirondacks and winter in the Carribean. We own a beach house in the Cayman Islands. We are relocating to there at the end of 2007 as we love to Scuba dive. We have no children, allowing us to accelerate our retiremnt savings. We were given a house as a wedding present from my dad, and so we never had to pay a mortgage.

By: azphx1972

azphx1972 — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:05:20 +0000

$286k in 12 years, age 35. Started maxing out at age 23 on a $31k salary. Here's my 401k story.