Oh, it’s Saturday Oh, it’s Saturday High nigh nighny and a ha cha cha —Spanky, upon discovering that the weekend has arrived and he doesn’t have to go to school Our Aussie blogger friend Frog Dancer Jones is retiring next week. Bully for her! She’s a wonderful person, and she really does deserve to own …
If you’re the average working American, who wants to retire in dignity, your financial life can be broken down into three distinct phases. The first phase is the correction phase. This is where you get your financial act together. You get better at earning, better at subduing your appetite for stuff and status, and better …
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Last week I wrote a post about the state of our finances three years into retirement. But in that post, I never pointed out what I liked and didn’t like about retirement. Today’s post aims to correct that dreadful oversight. Here we go. Three Things I Like About Retirement No Shortage of Things to Do …
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Mrs. Groovy and I have now been retired for three years. And I must say that we are kicking this retirement thing’s ass. Here’s the skinny on our retirement thus far: Since retiring, our net worth has increased by $190,000. That works out to an average increase of $63,000 per year. Between my pension and …
Crazy week in Groovyland. Groovy parents are in the midst of moving from house number one to house number two (they close next week on the sale of house number one). So our disjointed life has become even more disjointed (we’re living in house number two). The mattresses and boxes that furnished our lives with …