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At the beginning of each calendar year, we encourage our retired (or near-retired) readers to perform an actuarial valuation of their household assets and spending liabilities to see whether changes s...
My wife and I manage the finances for her mother/father. They are 92 and in declining health. We're spending about $13,500 / month (minus $5K LTC insurance) on assisted living and memory care. Money, ...
I recently received the following reader comment: “In regards to spending in retirement, I wonder if you could educate your readers, including myself, about differences between a 60/40 asset all...
Hiya! I retired 5 years ago at 57 (single) with 1.2 million net worth. Financial advisor told me 99% chance plan would work until I was 99. Told him my spending would be around 5k net a month. I will ...
In this episode, Betsy catches up with her friend Kathe after 8 months of retirement and shares her experience of not missing work at all. Betsy discusses how she prefers spending her time reading, ex...
Many financial advisors employ time segmentation buckets (sometimes simply referred to as “bucketing”) to help their clients fund their desired retirement spending. This usually involves t...
Just over 3 months ago, I made a post called Pre-Retirement Senioritis, and I felt pretty badly about not getting certain tasks done, spending large chunks of my day planning for retirement. Many of y...
By Adrian Cavender, Guest Writer The name of the game may be changing, but the goal remains the same for those of us with student loans: pay off as much debt as quickly as possible while spending as l...
For countless retirees, the greatest challenge isn't saving money, but spending it. After years of diligent saving, the transition to drawing down those hard-earned funds can be fraught with anxiety a...
The intergenerational-conflict myth is weaponized to cut Social Security and Medicare and make people work longer. The intergenerational – conflict myth intones that politicians who cut spending...
One of the concerns about the resumption of student loan payments is that it could tank the U.S. economy. Paying back student loans may cause consumers to reduce spending to the point of causing anoth...
Hello and welcome back to another monthly update from Root of Good. We started last month with heavy bouts of consumerism, spending money like crazy on a new used car and half a dozen plumbing upgrade...
As Congress battles over spending and House leadership, retirement advisors are losing faith in the U.S. economy....
Playing games is one of the many ways to make money online. While it isn’t necessarily the most profitable, if you’re already spending time going ham on bingo or honing in on your Tetris s...
Here are five approaches to retirement spending that are better than the 4% rule....
Bryan Johnson is spending millions of dollars each year towards a singular ambition—to slow his aging. His meticulous morning routine begins with light therapy during meditation. He follows this up ...
Anyone retire early then find out the numbers didn't quite work? If so, how did you make it work? Did you just adjust your spending? Or did you get a part-time job or even go back full-time? Some comb...
In our last post, we indicated that there are several levers in the AFP that more conservative users can employ to reflect their lower tolerance for potential future spending reductions, including: Us...
Between spending time with family and dedicating her work to the U.S. National Parks, Nancy enjoys the freedom that comes with retirement....
Hello! I'm 18 and would like to know how much money I would need to save in order to retire by 40 with approx—55 years in retirement. Let's say yearly spending in retirement would be $100,000. (...
When you retire, you will need to switch your thinking from being a saver to being a spender. The trick is to balance your withdrawals from spending too little and potentially dying with too much mone...
I’ve retired in the last year in the Midwest. Summer is easy but winter is confining. After a spending a few weeks in Florida I’ve made a decision to spend the winter there and take advant...