Category - Retirement

We like to offer different perspectives on money management, budgeting, and retirement planning so it is evident that there is more than one way to plan your spending and saving. However, if you want a truly personalized financial planning outlook, contact a Fee-Only financial planner.

In a NextAvenue.com article, Jim DeGaetano, author of The Fruitful Retirement: A Financial Framework for Your Life’s Greatest Chapter, offers a retirement planning system that involves food. DeGaetano asks readers to think of retirement in terms of a triangle that is divided into three parts: Needs, Wants, and Legacy. The Needs portion makes up the …

The practice of offering consumers the chance to take a vehicle they might buy on a test-drive has been in place for a long time. And a few years ago, realtors got into letting people “test-drive” homes by spending the night in them. And in “Test-Drive Your Retirement,” Kiplinger.com suggests that instead of just outlining your retirement goals on paper, you actually take those goals for a test-drive to see if the retirement life you are planning will really work for you.

Location, Location, Location: You would expect to be advised to try for an extended stay in …