Retirement is such a hard thing to plan because no one knows how much money will change in the upcoming years. I am planning on retiring at age sixty-seven so as of right now I have forty-seven years to start saving money and planning for my retirement. On average I spend close to two-hundred dollars a week. Two-hundred dollars multiplied by fifty-two weeks in a year multiplied by the twenty-two years that I will be retired based on my life expectancy means that I will need $228,800+ to live securely until I am eighty-nine years old.
In order to have that much saved up by the time I turn sixty-seven I will be investing in the stock market. Right now I own nine shares of Disney stock. At its last close as of November 12,