Fixed Income Retirement-House Poor?
Every couple of weeks, I attend a widow’s support group at a friend’s house-we’re a group of women with a wide age range..from forty something to seventy somethings, all with …
Retirement
Living richly In Retirement-Spring Is a Frugal Girl’s Dream
As I mentioned earlier on, spring has sprung here in Texas-in reality, its been here for most of the month of March. Every season has frugal advantages and costly situations. …
Lifetime Learning – Going Back To School In Retirement (Or any Time)
I’m a person of many (perhaps too many) interests. This is nothing that isn’t pretty well known, and I’ve shared that with the folks that read this blog. In truth, I’ve …
Frugal Retirement: Turning a Hobby into an Income Stream
Many retirees and folks on fixed income are looking for small income streams to add to their bottom lines. . There are quite a few alternatives: Sell your stuff, use …
Reitirement Busyness – Another Project, Anyone?
I am not, at heart, a planner. My method of planning is a small journal. I keep running to do lists, and each week I make a list of things …
Living Richly In Retirement-Small Savings Add Up
are obvioulsy lots of ways to be frugal and save money. If you’re like me, you are probably looking at more than one alternative. Sometimes we have to make a …
The Frugal Pantry, One Recipe At A Time.
One of my goals for the next few months is to step up my grocery savings, while keeping the quality of what I (and my grown children, who come and …
The (Half) Million Dollar Question
If you already had “enough” money to retire, would you work a full-time job for one more year if you could walk away with $500k from that year’s work? As …
Retirement & The Choices We Make
For many years before my satisfying retirement began I earned my living conducting market research for radio stations. The clients wanted to know which songs to play, what kind of contests would …