Oops!

Posted on November 9, 2007 2 Comments

Tons of cool tools exist online to help plan for the future. What is not helpful is when your age group is left out of the tool. Exhibit A:

I am 28. Can you spot the problem?

2 Responses to “Oops!”

MEG
November 9th, 2007 @ 9:26 pm

I know! Several of Money’s other calculators (and other sites’, to be fair) let you put in all the data and get results, but then under your results is a footnote saying that the lowest age the software calculates is 30.

Guess I can’t be too doing too badly if financial calculators aren’t even designed to take my info into account yet!
boardrose
November 28th, 2007 @ 8:49 pm

I would just make the “How much you should have” value my savings GOAL for when I hit 35 (I’m 29). At least by then, when you try the calculator again, you’ll know for sure that you’re on the right track !

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