Recent content by ImaCheesehead

If your SS check combined is 3005, and you spend 2280, you should have $725 per month left over, not $100-200. That is a pretty large difference so I suspect your monthly budget is a lot higher than you are reporting. You may want to go back a year or two and really nail down your expenses to...

My husband of 40 years has been diagnosed with terminal cancer (Glioblastoma) and I strongly feel I will never marry again when he is gone. I have never lived on my own. I am definitely the “stronger” personality in our relationship and cared more about the way things went. He is pretty...

We have been using St Brendan’s Isle for years. Very good service. A few financial institutions required a physical street address for our account and I used my moms, but those places still allowed SBI as the mailing address

Thank you all for your comments, recommendations, insights and sharing your own experiences. I value every post. DH is still in the rehab hospital but we are hoping for a Saturday release. He will have to be watched 24/7 as the surgery really disrupted his cognitive abilities. His short term...

Numbers and finance are the easiest pieces of my life to think about right now, TBH. Assets and expenses are relatively finite. Everything else is spinning wildly out of control and there is no likely clarity coming anytime soon. I have always been the planner/manager in our relationship as...

Survivor FRA is slightly different, strangely enough.

Thank you all, and as usual, the collective wisdom is correct. I went back to Open Social Security and re-ran the numbers and it does still tell me to file for mine at 62 and survivor at my survivor FRA which is 66 and 10 months for those born in 1961, and he does not file at all. I would have...

My 66 year old husband was diagnosed with Glioblastoma a few weeks ago after suffering stroke like symptoms. He is in a rehab hospital at the moment after brain surgery last week to remove the two tumors. He expects to have radiation and chemotherapy but the median survival rate, even with...

So sorry to hear that you have pulled the plug on the deal, but your reasoning is solid. Wonder if you could still buy the goat and pig for your current home?

That is EXACTLY why I got glasses. After a day at work on the computer, my distance sight would be quite fuzzy on the way home.

The issue with the black screen on the eye chart machine seems more common than I would have guessed. A year and a half ago, at age 60, I changed domicile to FL and had to take a vision test for a license. Although I wear bifocal glasses for crisper distance vision and seeing up close I wanted...

Assuming he is not being scammed, why can’t a 71 year old with A Fib care for themselves? My mom is widowed, 81, owns a home with 3/4 acre yard that she cares for plus, since she is in WI, she snow blows in the winter. I am a full time RVer so usually am at least 1000 miles from her. We keep in...

We are full time RVers and never close to our Dr. to be able to see her for small things. We have been lucky so far (6 years on the road and haven’t had any urgent medical issues) but I could see a couple from the list that could come up. DH is over 65 so can’t use the service. It would work...

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Wow, I just hit 100 posts in 10 years of reading ER.org. Hope you all can keep up with me