The Rule of 219
Proverbs 15:22
Without consultation, plans are frustrated, but with many counselors they succeed.
There’s one particularly disheartening rule we train in our program called “The Rule of 219.”
If you take a married couple, assume they eat 3 meals per day. Let’s say the average cost of each meal is $5. And let’s assume they eat every day of the year, and that their retirement “lasts” for 20 years.
The math looks like this: 2 (people) x 3 (meals) x 5 (dollars per meal) x 365 (days in a year) x 20 (years in retirement) =$219,000
There you have it…it will cost you and your spouse $219,000 just to eat in retirement.
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The good news is that a $5 meal is likely a fast-food meal, which should greatly shorten your years in retirement. Now that’s a retirement plan.
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