Category: Retirement

If you’re approaching retirement, there are many reasons why it makes sense to look for a brand new car. At this stage in your life, there are more things to enjoy and you don’t want to spend your time continually changing cars. Therefore, a shrewd purchase will see you through your retirement years. As with…

If you are looking for a cheap place to retire in the United States then the book, The Top 100 Cheapest Places To Retire In The U.S. In 2012, might be for you. The book is by Thomas C. Corley,a CPA, Certified Financial Planner and tax strategist. His website is at RichHabits.net and the book…

The following is a guest post about budgets by Lisa at Frugal Living, an Australian personal finance blog created to talk to readers about frugality and living below your means. Let’s face facts: most people aren’t going to be able to retire at age 62. Some won’t be able to retire at age 72. The thought…

The subtitle of this book is “How much money you need to retire and how to manage your retirement savings explained in 100 pages or less” and that is a good summary of what the book is about. As you might expect from the length of the book it doesn’t go into extended detail on…

Do you get to retire when you are 62? Perhaps you will wait until 65 before you enter that “third life.” Maybe you’ll even defer until 70 to get the higher payments. But ask yourself this one simple question: Is retirement really all about your age, or is there more to it than that? So…

Being able to retire isn’t about reaching a certain age it is more about reaching a dollar figure. There are lots of people who retire from a job and then have to return to the workforce in order to make the amount of money needed to survive for the remainder of their life. How Much…

The Globe-Trotting Golfer’s Guide to Retirement is a different type of retirement guide. I was giving a free copy of this book to review. It isn’t a financial how to retire kind of book. Instead it focuses more on lifestyle issues during retirement. One of the more enlightening parts of the book is when the…

If you have a fear of the standard graphing calculator, tremble at the sight of a scientific calculator, or cower at the thought of an abacus, then financial calculators are probably not for you. If your legs do not go weak at the thought of any of the above, then the only difference between your…