Travel and one-time choices
Big decisions, priced for a lifetime
Business class, a new car, a larger apartment: none of these are sins. They are cash that could have compounded. This page makes that trade visible before you buy the upgrade.
Lifetime assumptions
Used on every calculator. Change them once and they stick in this browser.
35
40
7.0%
Horizon runs from age 35 to about 75. Default 7% is a long-run stock-market illustration, before inflation and taxes.
If that money compounds
a paid-off house in many parts of the country.
- Per year
- $4,000
- 40-year total, no interest
- $160,000
- If invested for life
- $874,938