Recent content by isabella

We've lived in Hawaii, California (all over), North Carolina, Boston, Oregon, and Colorado. My favorite weather is Windsor, California. It's in Sonoma County--wine country. All of my favorite places for weather are in California and are mostly on the coast, which is crazy expensive. Oregon is...

We hardly ever eat at restaurants. I like to bake my own whole wheat bread and make brown rice, and other healthy foods and find restaurant food to generally be less healthy and less tasty. Our percentages are probably about 98 percent spent on groceries and 2 percent dining out.

We're from California and moved to Colorado back in 2000. We lived in Greeley and I worked in Loveland. Also, spent quite a bit of time in Fort Collins. Greeley smells to high heaven. It's awful. Fort Collins, as others have mentioned, has a cute downtown area and there are some great...

Thanks for all the input! To answer some questions: I'm 58 and my husband is 60. I'll most likely take SS at age 62. Megacorp health insurance is supposed to pay until 65, then medicare becomes our primary insurance and our present insurance becomes secondary. Of course, that's assuming megacorp...

Hi, I'm Isabella. I was laid off a couple of years ago and not sure if I'm going to retire or go back to work. From everything I've read on this site, I need more $ than we have, but we live very simply, so not sure if we can get by with less. We don't have a mortgage on our house in Hawaii and...