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Number of months I've been retired. It took me 30 years to get 30 months paid vacation during a 30 year career in the Army. Only 6 years and 4 months later, I hit 76 months in retirement. What a sweet deal! Nearly every day, at some point during the day, I become aware that I'm no longer in the...

Just checking in after 3 years. The highlights: -lived a year in Spain after retiring on the Mediterranean Coast in Sitges. it was beautiful but kids I wanted to come back to the USA to finish off high school and to take care of an ailing MIL. -settled in north, central FL in Ga in a sleepy...

As Mike Tyson says, every fighter has a plan until he--or she now that we have women professionally beating each other-- gets punched in the mouth. since retiring 3 years ago the pandemic is my first trial by fire at seeing my reaction during the first sizable--30% though remarkably short...

after 3 years in retirement I took a moment to see how we were doing with our investment income and spending. since DW and I are not good at detailed tracking of our spending, I thought it would be good if I looked in the aggregate to see how we were doing. we use our monthly income from...

Einstein said, to paraphrase, 'Compounding is the most powerful force in the universe.' When I went through my financial records a couple years ago, when I'd just reached RE, I noted my savings contributed 56% of my NW and interest on investments represented the remaining 44%. I added the equity...

I felt like the "time to make the donuts" every morning that I went to work for the last few years at work. Got curious to see if he was still around. He isn't but nice to know he did get a few years of retirement. Here is his Wikipedia's entry: "Michael Vale*(June 28, 1922 – December 24...

I noticed the other day my spending in retirement is no where close to my post retirement budget plan. In fact if I were to have followed the financial advisor rule-of-thumb of 80% of working income, I'd have to go back to the salt mines. My actual spending is closer to 120% of my pre...

Hello, I am a 49 yr old has been. Retired from 30 yr career working for Uncle Sam in the Army. My DW is about 90% retired, no I would have to say 95% retired--she is still a proud member of the Army Reserves. After following one of this forum's vets, Nords, I too suggested to my DW to get off...