Hello! Thank you for linking to my post--I am glad you enjoyed it.

Hello Wellheeled and kenyantykoon!

I don't know what it is, but retirement is forefront on my mind, ever since I was like 16 years old. And it's not that I think about it like "I want to get out of the rat race as quickly as possible", but more like I need to prepare for the reasons you are discussing above. As a young person (27), I realize that any money I sock away now is worth much more than money I sock away later, and that is exciting to me as well. Also, my grandparents saved absolutely no money towards retirement, and now they sit around...a lot. They are on a fixed income, and though they do a great job with what they have, they occasionally have to ask their children to pay for things (such as property taxes at the end of the year).

Thanks for the post!