Today we're continuing our discussion of the book Work Less, Live More: The Way to Semi-Retirement which I started in Early Semi-Retirement: An Alternative to Full Retirement. If you want to catch up, I suggest you read that post first because I'm going to jump in quickly with new topics from the book. Plus that post was pretty interesting if I do say so myself. … [Read more...]

Woo hoo! It's now been THREE YEARS since I've been retired! This milestone is a great time to do a bit of reflecting, so here are some thoughts on retirement overall... First, I'm so glad I did it when I did. If circumstances had worked out differently, I might be still working. Second, I wish I had done it earlier. My biggest FI mistake was not retiring … [Read more...]

After writing Retirement Housing Decisions and getting a ton of GREAT suggestions (thank you!) I decided to ask the Wise Sage of All Knowledge what they thought about retirement housing. Who is this Wise Sage? Google, of course. ;) After all, their entire business is built upon finding the best content for any given search term, so they probably have most of this figured … [Read more...]

While deciding when to take Social Security (SS) is still some time off for me, it's been on my mind recently. As I've been reading the Retirement Interviews it seems there are a disproportionate number of comments and thoughts around how the retirees address Social Security. I'm interested in this as well because it's 1) a complicated subject and 2) something I don't … [Read more...]

Many years ago (on my first site) I wrote several posts on the book Work Less, Live More: The Way to Semi-Retirement. This pre-dated FIRE becoming more mainstream (and being known by me) as the book was originally published in 2007 and I wrote about it in 2010. At that time, the idea of semi-retirement was rather unique and somewhat "out there." (Though undoubtedly it, or … [Read more...]

This is a guest post I wrote which originally appeared on PT Money. It's a bit dated but the ten small joys still hold true. We all are aware of the great benefits in retirement: the freedom of time, the ability to travel and, of course, not having to work. :) But what about the little things? What about the small joys that pop up in retirement? You know, the simple … [Read more...]

We've talked a lot about what retirement is like -- and I mean what it's really like. Not some sort of ideal version of life after work or the "quit work and play golf all day" retirement of our grandparents, but the various aspects and challenges of retirement (and especially early retirement) in the 21st century. We've discussed how to get up the nerve to retire as well … [Read more...]