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Is There Any Place Where It’s Safe to Retire?

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

August 3, 2025 — People give a lot of thought to where they are going to retire. Some of the factors they usually consider are climate (e.g.; warm winters), cost of living, tax burden, leisure activities, proximity to friends and family, crime rates, transportation, and quality and availability of health…

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Published on August 2, 2025
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Amazon Prime Deals Today!

Category: Home and Garden

October 11, 2023 — Some unbelievable deals are here today, Oct. 11, for Amazon Prime members. They will find savings of 60% or more on items like 50″ TVs, Phillips air fryers, Roomba vacuums, Bose headphones, etc. These are some of Amazon’s best deals of the season…

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Published on October 8, 2023
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Retirement Is a Great Time for … an Electric Car

Category: Home and Garden

Sept. 7, 2023 — Driving is one of life’s great necessities, and for many, one of its top pleasures. The feeling of freedom that comes with getting one’s driver’s license is hard to forget. At the other end, losing that license to old age or infirmity can be a crushing…

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Published on September 6, 2023
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The Best Gadgets for Retirement

Category: Home and Garden

August 7, 2023 – Part of the fun of being retired is having the time to tinker, fool around with cool stuff, enjoy new types of leisure, and save time and trouble doing chores. There are plenty of products that can help you have more fun, so we thought we…

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Published on August 6, 2023
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Rising Popularity of ADU’s a Blessing for Retirees

Category: Family and Retirement

February 23, 2023 — One of the hottest acronyms in the real estate world is ADU, which stands for Accessory Dwelling Unit. Demographic shifts from Covid, exploding real estate prices, and a shortage of affordable places to live has suddenly put them in the spotlight, prompting more states and…

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Published on February 22, 2023
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Arizona Community’s Water Supply Shut Off – Are There Any Safe Places to Retire?

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

January 17, 2023 — The search for a safe place to retire is challenging, as the community of Rio Verde Hills just found out. Up until recently, it received its water from neighboring Scottsdale. But due to concerns that it wouldn’t have enough water for its own residents, Scottsdale cut…

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Published on January 16, 2023
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Hallie Declutters After a Lifetime of Yard Sales

Category: Downsizing

Our thanks to the NY TImes best-selling author HALLIE EPHRON for allowing us to reprint this amazing story from JungleRedWriters.com. Decluttering, ridding out, downsizing, whatever you want to call it, is hard. This is a wonderful and touching tribute, thank you! Note: Jerry, with whom…

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Published on October 25, 2022
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Downsizing: Maybe You Need to Hire a Move Manager

Category: Downsizing

October 20, 2022 — Moving at any age is bad enough. But baby boomers have spent decades acquiring all kinds of stuff, adding to the challenges of age. Moving at our age usually means downsizing, when we realize we have 1,000 pounds of stuff (furniture, knicknacks, collections, etc.) that we…

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Published on July 21, 2022
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The Answer to High Prices: Many Retirees Turn to Boommates

Category: Financial and taxes in retirement

July 13, 2020 — Not everyone wants to have a roommate in their retirement, but for many they are a great solution. A PBS Newshour feature this week, “High Costs Spur More Baby Boomers to Find Roommates“, highlighted how many homeowners are finding homesharing to be…

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Published on July 18, 2022
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Adventures in Cord Cutting

Category: Financial and taxes in retirement

May 31, 2022 — Many of America’s most hated companies are the cable, internet and telephone giants – Comcast/Xfinity, Century Link, Sprint, etc. People dread calling these behemoths for customer service, because they know they will get into a never-ending telephone tree that make it very difficult to speak to…

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Published on May 30, 2022
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