Today we finish the book Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending. In case you've missed any of our posts in this series, the best way to catch up is to begin with the first article, Be Happier by Buying Experiences Over Things, and then click through to the others that follow in sequential order. In this post I'll highlight some final thoughts from the book as well … [Read more...]
Moving to a New Location in Retirement
Today I'm going to share more thoughts from The Wall Street Journal Complete Retirement Guidebook. In case you missed the first two posts in this series, check out Basics of Retirement Planning and Working or Volunteering in the New Retirement. This post will address the book's thoughts on where to live in retirement. I'll share their take and then add my … [Read more...]
Working or Volunteering in the New Retirement
Today I'm going to share more thoughts from The Wall Street Journal Complete Retirement Guidebook. In case you missed the first post in this series, check out Basics of Retirement Planning. Last time I told you that the book had an eighth question people should ask about retirement that it added to the seven suggested by Ronald Manheimer, executive director of the Center … [Read more...]
Be Happier by Investing in Others
Today we continue sharing from the book Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending. In case you've missed any of our posts in this series, the best way to catch up is to begin with the first post, Be Happier by Buying Experiences Over Things, and then click through to the other posts in sequential order. In this post I'll highlight principle 5 as well as give you my … [Read more...]
Basics of Retirement Planning
Sometimes great things come in old packages. That is certainly true of a retirement book I read recently titled The Wall Street Journal Complete Retirement Guidebook. It was written in 2007, which seems like a million years ago, but as I read it I found as much or more wisdom than I have in most of the other 50+ retirement books I've read in the past several years. So … [Read more...]
Be Happier by Paying Now and Consuming Later
Today we continue sharing from the book Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending. In case you've missed any of our posts in this series, the best way to catch up is to begin with the first post, Be Happier by Buying Experiences Over Things, and then click through to the other posts in sequential order. In this post I'll highlight principle 4 as well as give you my … [Read more...]
Millionaire Thoughts on Buying Time
I'm in the middle of a series on the book Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending. In the last post, we talked about being happier by buying time -- basically trading money for time and avoiding unpleasant tasks by hiring someone to do them. We've discussed this issue quite a bit in the Millionaire Money Mentors forums and I thought I'd share some of those comments … [Read more...]
Be Happier by Buying Time
Today we continue sharing from the book Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending. We've already covered principles 1 and 2 of this book. In case you missed them, you can catch up by reading Be Happier by Buying Experiences Over Things and Be Happier by Making Your Spending a Treat Friday. In this post I'll highlight principle 3 as well as give you my thoughts on … [Read more...]
Be Happier by Making Your Spending a Treat
Today we continue sharing from the book Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending. We've already covered principle 1 of this book. In case you missed it, you can catch up by reading Be Happier by Buying Experiences Over Things. In this post I'll highlight principle 2 as well as give you my thoughts on it. Let's get started... Principle 2: Make It a Treat Here's … [Read more...]
Be Happier by Buying Experiences Over Things
A few months ago, one of the Millionaire Money Mentors brought up the subject of happiness. He linked to this post from Humble Dollar and quoted these stats: Between 1972 and 2018, the percentage of Americans who described themselves as very happy ranged from 29% to 38%. The number for 2021 was recently released: Just 19% of us said we’re very happy—10 percentage points … [Read more...]
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