Category: Retirement
The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Abandoning a High Cost State in Retirement
My retired aunt recently moved from Long Island, New York, to Wake Forest, North Carolina. It wasn’t easy. Packing all the furniture and stuff she crammed into her house over the course of 40-plus years and moving it 500 miles south required a lot of work. But thankfully all that work was worth it. No…
Dangerous Financial Assumptions That Can Wreck Your Future
Hello, groovy freedomists. Today we’re excited to welcome our good friend, Gary, who blogs over at supersavingtips.com. Gary is a former retail executive who also worked in banking as a financial advisor. Now retired, he uses his professional and personal experiences to help others save money and master their personal finances. When he’s not busy writing, Gary…
Retirement UK Style
Today we have a guest post from Erith, who blogs at Cracking Retirement. Erith retired at age 56 after spending more than 30 years working in IT in the financial industry. Erith and her husband lived and invested through several financial collapses but still managed their finances well enough to retire early, before their pensions…
The Groovies’ FIRE Prowess Score
When my good friend Fritz over at The Retirement Manifesto calls for a chain gang, I don’t ask questions. I do whatever I have to do get in on the chain. In this chain gang challenge, Fritz drew inspiration from JW over at The Green Swan. JW devised a handy tool to gauge your progress…
Five Surprising Perks of Retirement
Soon after Mr. Groovy and I quit our jobs I wrote about retirement bliss. A few months later I shared the six horrifying truths no one tells you about retirement. I wasn’t sure what to expect after that. Now, nine months into horrifying bliss, I’m happy to divulge the five surprising perks of retirement I’ve…