Hi all,
I used to post as Oldbabe but disappeared from here about 2010 after a minor kerfuffle with the moderator. Since I posted a reply on a thread I thought I should re-introduce myself. I'm not a typical early retiree, having originally joined the forum soon after a divorce in order to learn about personal finance. My retirement was and is almost totally based upon a divorce settlement and family trust.
Although, I have to say, that the only reason I am financially secure now, 12 years later, is because I have managed my finances with rigorous attention. I know plenty of people who have blown through their money and are now close to destitute, living on credit cards in their non existent retirement, and trying to cobble together a livelihood from various jobs.
I learned a lot from this forum and that's one reason I decided to re-register. Seems like the economy is entering another sketchy period, not sure why, except for the obvious, an overvalued stock market and banks that are all leveraged up again. Hard to know what's actually going on behind the scenes of all those financial institutions. Just feels like bad mojo again. So, if things go south, I might need to figure out some financial difficulties and this would be a good place to do that.
I used to post as Oldbabe but disappeared from here about 2010 after a minor kerfuffle with the moderator. Since I posted a reply on a thread I thought I should re-introduce myself. I'm not a typical early retiree, having originally joined the forum soon after a divorce in order to learn about personal finance. My retirement was and is almost totally based upon a divorce settlement and family trust.
Although, I have to say, that the only reason I am financially secure now, 12 years later, is because I have managed my finances with rigorous attention. I know plenty of people who have blown through their money and are now close to destitute, living on credit cards in their non existent retirement, and trying to cobble together a livelihood from various jobs.
I learned a lot from this forum and that's one reason I decided to re-register. Seems like the economy is entering another sketchy period, not sure why, except for the obvious, an overvalued stock market and banks that are all leveraged up again. Hard to know what's actually going on behind the scenes of all those financial institutions. Just feels like bad mojo again. So, if things go south, I might need to figure out some financial difficulties and this would be a good place to do that.
