Retirement Tips

Yesterday I wrote about re-reading parts of Dale Carnegie’s book “How To Stop Worrying and Start Living”. In the first chapter he talks about the concept of living in “one-day compartments”. That made me thing of the Christy Lane song “One Day At A Time”? About 20 years ago it seemed […]

This blog seems to have taken off in a direction of its own. It wasn’t my original plan to devote so much space only to how-to financial issues. I meant to write a post on the subject of retirement planning and the steps for determining how much you need to save in your […]

Here’s the last part of our 3 part series on determining how much you need to save for the retirement lifestyle you want.
Step 5 - Adjust for Social Security. You’ll notice I left a discussion of Social Security to last. Much has been written recently and much has been said recently, especially by politicians, […]

Here’s Part 2 of our 3 Part series on determining how much you need to save each month to have the money you need for the kind of retirement lifestyle you want.
Step 3 - Determine how much you need to save. Let’s say you currently earn $86,000 per year and have determined you can […]

Retirement age is often called “The Golden Years”. One thing is certain. Retirement will be a lot more fun if you have enough gold to enjoy it. What follows is a summary of what I’ve learned from reading a number of books on retirement planning and setting up retirement accounts. To […]