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Hello Everyone: I don't post a lot but I have been around here a very long time. I am now 5 years into my post-retirement FIRE life. At this point, I wanted to share where I was off in my planning. The purpose of this is so that readers who are in the saving and accumulation stage of...

Greetings all: For folks like myself who are heavily invested in index funds-or just about anything else for that matter-this year has been very painful. So what to do now, if one has some cash on hand? Is it time to buy "low"? It it time to look at bonds? Alternate investments? I...

Greetings everyone: I joined this forum years ago, then forgot about it. One day, I started getting emails from the website so I have been lurking for some time now. I am "retired" if you want to call it that. I was not ready but, ready or not, retirement arrived! I have a medical...

Hello Everyone:      One component of my early retirement plan deals with social security.  While I am not using any Social Security money to fund my retirement plan, I nonetheless do want to attempt to maximize the amount of social security benefit I receive.  My goal is to receive the maximum...

Hello Everyone:      Allow me to introduce myself.  I chose the name eyenitnoy, which is Thai for " little bit shy".  You remember that quiet, nerdy guy back in high school?  You know, the fellow who looked kind of funny and was too shy to ask a girl to the prom.  Yep, that's me.   :)  Well...