| Personal Details | |
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| Your Current age (in years) |
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| Age at which you want to retire (in years) |
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| Savings or interest rate of your current investments (% per annum) |
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| Income Tax rate (% per annum) |
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| Current Inflation rate (% per annum) |
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| Spending Details | |
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| Deferring purchase of a house / flat (Rs.) |
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| Reducing the Home Loan EMI (Rs.) |
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| Waiting to buy a new car (Rs.) |
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| Eating out less with family (Rs.) |
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| Reduce lifestyle spending (Rs.) |
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| Taking fewer holidays (Rs.) |
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| Taking public transport (Rs.) |
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| Reducing the credit card interest (Rs.) |
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| Closing the personal loan (Rs.) |
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| Doing less shopping (Rs.) |
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By reducing your spending you will save this amount each year
Rs.
If you invest this amount, you will accumulate this amount by the time you retire
Rs.
Number of Years
Years
This calculator applies the classic "latte factor" idea with real numbers: a small recurring expense, when redirected into an investment instead of spent, compounds into a surprisingly large sum over years - not because the monthly amount is large, but because it's regular and given a long runway to grow.
Enter a monthly amount you could realistically save by trimming a specific recurring expense, along with an investment horizon and expected return, and the calculator shows what that redirected amount could grow into if invested instead of spent - a concrete number to weigh against the expense it's replacing.
The point isn't to eliminate every discretionary expense - that's neither realistic nor necessary. It's to identify the one or two specific habitual expenses where redirecting the money produces a disproportionately large long-term payoff relative to how much you'd actually miss spending it, and act on just those.
