friar1610
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Today I spent a few hours catching up on filing, straightening out my office/den, deleting/filing emails - that kind of stuff. I had to make a new file folder to add to the filing cabinet and that got me thinking about the progression of file folders from early retirement (age 58) through the present (almost 70.)
1. Retire from the Navy. Make file folder for "Navy retirement pay."
2. Get civilian job. Make file folder for "401K."
3. Quit civilian job(s) after 6 years and really retire. Make file folder for "Rollover IRA."
4. Wife stops working and I can no longer be on her health insurance. Make file folder for "TRICARE" (military MEDICARE-like health care plan for retirees.)
5. Apply for Social Security (at age 62). Make "Social Security" folder.
6. Enroll in Medicare (at age 65). Make "Medicare". Also make "TRICARE for Life" folder as TRICARE now becomes a supplement to Medicare.
7. Today: make "Vanguard MRD" folder as I will have to start taking them in 2015 and I recently set things up with Vanguard to have them figure out the amounts and transfer funds to my money market fund quarterly.
I also made a few folders for my wife as she hit some but not all of the above milestones.
Pretty mundane stuff but thought it made an interesting progression through stages of retirement.
1. Retire from the Navy. Make file folder for "Navy retirement pay."
2. Get civilian job. Make file folder for "401K."
3. Quit civilian job(s) after 6 years and really retire. Make file folder for "Rollover IRA."
4. Wife stops working and I can no longer be on her health insurance. Make file folder for "TRICARE" (military MEDICARE-like health care plan for retirees.)
5. Apply for Social Security (at age 62). Make "Social Security" folder.
6. Enroll in Medicare (at age 65). Make "Medicare". Also make "TRICARE for Life" folder as TRICARE now becomes a supplement to Medicare.
7. Today: make "Vanguard MRD" folder as I will have to start taking them in 2015 and I recently set things up with Vanguard to have them figure out the amounts and transfer funds to my money market fund quarterly.
I also made a few folders for my wife as she hit some but not all of the above milestones.
Pretty mundane stuff but thought it made an interesting progression through stages of retirement.