Tag: retirement
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…
Second Wednesday of the Month Politics: Mr. Groovy Decides to Mix His Junior IRA with Education
“Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.” —Robert Kennedy I’m definitely not normal. As my late grandfather would have no doubt remarked, I was surely “kicked in the head by a butterfly.” And that’s why I can’t let go of my…
The Groovy Drawdown Strategy
First Physician on Fire (PoF), and then Fritz. The FI community is abuzz. And when I see two FI rock stars jump on something, I take notice. So what the heck did PoF and Fritz do? They shared their drawdown strategies. That’s right. They stood before the FI community and boldly proclaimed how their accumulated riches…
The Dean Wormer Guide to Personal Finance
As fate would have it, the movie Animal House came out a year before I went away to college. Not good. I actually embraced the fictional Deltas as role models, and my first round of college was characterized by far too much debauchery and far too little learning. But despite its harmful affects on my…
The Eve of Destruction Approach to Retirement Planning
I was in a groovy mood last night, so I decided to look at retirement planning through the prism of the grooviest music of all time—the music from the psychedelic 60s. Can I get a “woot woot” for Janis, Jimi, Mick, and the Lizard King? Yes, I know that’s weird. And, no, I wasn’t smoking…