“Spend more time with family.” That’s a common answer to the most frequently asked question posed to pre-retirees: “What will you do with all that time?” In many cases, “family”…
Published March 22, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
Published March 15, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
We’ve heard the word ‘semi-retirement’ tossed around, but we’re never exactly sure what it means. Is it synonymous with early retirement? Is a semi-retired person a retiree-in-training? A provisional retiree,…
Published March 10, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
Gyms and community centers are brimming with baby boomers trying to get (or stay) in shape for their golden years. (Although, attendance numbers seem to be down considerably since those 2017 New Year’s resolutions…
Published February 16, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
Working people tend to gauge their success by the numbers. Pete was one of those people. Pete measured his success by the number of years he’d been in business, accounts served, people…
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Published February 8, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
We love sand. Especially on a sunny beach this time of year. Soft, warm and fun to build things with, sand is comforting, fluffy and, the occasional dead jellyfish notwithstanding,…
Published February 2, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
We love that quote by Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God. And yet, the old-school notion of a successful retirement is all about comfort, isn’t it? The comfort of…
Published January 19, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
This story in Forbes is a great reminder to all of us here at Fit-To-Retire that we don’t know everything there is to know about retirement. Why? Because we’re still…
Published January 12, 2017 by Cathy Hamilton
Michael Kitces’ recent column in OnWallStreet beautifully illustrates one of the fundamental principles on which Fit-To-Retire was built: Spending behavior differs dramatically in the first, second and third decades after…
Published December 30, 2016 by Cathy Hamilton
There are tons of tips for preparing financially for retirement released in the press this time of year. Here’s a good one, for example. But, after you’ve crossed all the…
Published December 21, 2016 by Cathy Hamilton
Call us greedy, but we’ve never thought Santa’s list should be limited to the kids. After all, children have such short attention spans. They may spend an hour on Christmas…
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