Money .. how much??

It's a very simple equation, really. If my current income is, say $20,000 a year and I find that is sufficient to maintain my current standard of living, and I also know that I can get a return of, let us say, 2% per annum by investing a sum of money in a safe investment, I can calculate what sum of money I should invest to receive $20,000 in interest ... $20,000 x 100/2 = $1,000,000. So I would need to invest a million dollars in order to receive the same income regularly every year. Unfortunately, nobody is free from inflation, so, looking into the future, it's likely that, in 10 years time, $20,000 a year will be worth only half of its value today, so I would need to start with a rather higher investment so that part of the interest could be used to increase the capital (and thus the annual interest) to allow for inflation. I might also decide that I can only expect to live for another 70 years, so that, by the end of that time, I would need no income. There are formulae to calculate this kind of investment, too (they are the same ones used to calculate regular payments to fulfil a mortgage or loan over a certain term). This would reduce the amount of capital required to provide a regular income.

Never really thought how much money would make me stop working. My parents trained us and made us work from the time we learned how to add and subtract. We counted the money that get into the cash box everyday and we didn't have any idea how much we need to earn to stop. All we knew then was the more money that gets into the cashbox the happier we would be. Until now i have that concept, as long as there's money coming in, i'll never stop.

Interesting! For me to stop working again?I guess maybe earning as much as $100 a week or more, I know its kinda too impossible unless you have a business that can accumulate $100 a week, but maybe with hard work and perseverance I can achieve that

I think 100$ a day is much enough, and it can be enough for a week too for me. But I still need to work because work is good for healthy, but I prefer I can work from home.