Today we’re going to continue sharing thoughts from the book How to Retire by Christine Benz. It’s a great book which I highly recommend. And as with the last article, I’ll be giving away a copy of the book at the end of this post. We’ve already posted twice on this book as follows: How to Retire Planning for Retirement You may want to check these out if you … [Read more...]
Planning for Retirement
Today we’re going to continue sharing thoughts from the book How to Retire by Christine Benz. It’s a great book and I highly recommend it. And as with the last article, I’ll be giving away a copy of the book at the end of this post. We’ve already covered this book once in the post titled How to Retire. You may want to check that out if you missed it since this post builds on … [Read more...]
How to Retire
I just read one of the best retirement books I’ve read in years. It’s one of the best I’ve ever read. The book is How to Retire by Christine Benz. As you'll see over the coming posts, there's a lot to like about this book. Here are the highlights of why I liked it so much: The book covers so many major issues related to retiring well — especially the non-financial … [Read more...]
Net Worth and Spending 2025
I realize that it’s late to do a financial recap of 2025, but that’s what happens when you get three months ahead in posts…you simply slot the next one into the first available slot…and this is what was available. Haha. If it helps, I’m writing this in early January, so all is fresh to me. It’s just that you’re reading it much later than that. All that said, I wanted to share … [Read more...]
Retirement Interview 60
Here’s our latest interview with a retiree as we seek to learn from those who have actually taken the retirement plunge. If you’d like to be considered for an interview, drop me a note and we can chat about specifics. This interview was conducted in September. My questions are in bold italics and their responses follow in black. Let’s get … [Read more...]
Retirement Interview 59
Here’s our latest interview with a retiree as we seek to learn from those who have actually taken the retirement plunge. If you’d like to be considered for an interview, drop me a note and we can chat about specifics. This interview was conducted in September. My questions are in bold italics and their responses follow in black. Let’s get … [Read more...]
How Institutions, the Media, and Money Bloggers Address Working in Retirement
Today we’re concluding our discussion on the Retirement Police. So far we’ve had two posts in this series: Grappling with the Retirement Police The Changing Definition of Retirement You’ll want to read those in case you missed them as they lay the groundwork for today’s post. Last time we were asking various “experts” in the field of retirement how they think … [Read more...]
The Changing Definition of Retirement
Today we’re continuing our series on the Retirement Police. We started with Grappling with the Retirement Police. You’ll want to read that post in case you missed it as it lays the groundwork for today’s article. Last time we touched upon how the English language changes over time, and today we’re starting with how that has applied to the word “retirement” — specifically as … [Read more...]
Grappling with the Retirement Police
It’s been over six years since I wrote The Retirement Police and the Definition of Retirement. Even then the definition of retirement had transitioned to the point where more people than not were comfortable with “working in retirement” and didn’t see “work” and “retirement” as mutually exclusive. So I figured that by now pretty much everyone in the world would have made the … [Read more...]
Maine, The Way (Early Retirement) Life Should Be
We have some amazing mentors in the Millionaire Money Mentors (MMM) forums and today I’m sharing a post from one of them. This story tells how he used some out-of-the-box thinking to move to a preferred location as well as improve his finances. I thought ESI Money readers would appreciate this story and learn a lot from it, so he gave me his permission to post it … [Read more...]
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