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An Incredible Free Entertainment Resource You Might Be Overlooking

Category: Home and Garden

December 4, 2021 — There is a free resource in your town in your town you might be missing out on. One that you can actually tap from your home or phone for instant service. It is called your Library! A few years back many people predicted that libraries were…

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Published on December 3, 2021
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Quiz Results: On Most, But Not All Aspects, Your Homes are Ready for Retirement.

Category: Home and Garden

June 12, 2021 — Thanks to the 200 people who took our Home Readiness for Retirement Quiz. The Topretirements community appreciates the few minutes you took to assess your home’s readiness. We hope that you found the exercise useful. We know we did, our grab bars were installed today!…

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Published on June 11, 2021
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Aging in Place Checklist: Preparing Your Home for the Next 25 Years

Category: Checklists

June 6, 2021 — And aging in place checklist is critical to a long and happy retirement Whether you plan on staying in the home where you’ve always lived, buy a new retirement home, or you haven’t yet decided where you are going to retire, you have to make sure…

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Published on June 5, 2021
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Cold Weather and the Holidays Are Coming – How Will You Adjust?

Category: Home and Garden

November 10, 2020- if you like a lot of Americans you probably found some safe ways to socialize with a small group of friends or family this past summer. But with cold weather and the holidays arriving soon many folks are grappling with how to keep that going and avoid…

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Published on November 9, 2020
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Back by Popular Demand: The Snowbird’s Leaving for the Winter Checklist

Category: Home and Garden

September 21, 2020 — The leaves are starting to turn in some locales and there is a chill in the air. Which means many snowbirds are starting to wrap up their summer and getting ready to head south for the winter. To help retirees in that situation with their preparations,…

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Published on September 20, 2020
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The Sweet Joys of Shredding

Category: Downsizing

September 14, 2020 – Downsizing, ridding out, whatever you want to call it, paring down your stuff is an important job in retirement. This past week your Editor and his wife had the pleasure of safely disposing more than a dozen boxes of important papers that were cluttering up their…

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Published on September 14, 2020
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Audiobooks to the Rescue

Category: Home and Garden

September 2, 2020 — Spending more time walking, cooking, taking the dog out, exercising, or gardening during the pandemic? One great way to get double the pleasure out of these activities is to listen to a good book while you are doing them. All you need is your phone and…

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Published on September 2, 2020
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7 Steps on How to Be a Successful Snowbird

Category: Home and Garden

September 24, 2019 — The skies are starting to get busy with birds and butterflies headed south on their winter migrations. And soon Interstates like 25, 75, 95 will be crowded with baby boomers on their way to similar retirement destinations. To help you get ready for those trips we…

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Published on September 24, 2019
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8 Steps to Stop Those Annoying Robocalls

Category: Home and Garden

July 20, 2019 — Here is one thing in this increasingly divided nation that we can agree upon — we all hate Robocalls! These annoying and persistent calls often come right around dinner time from numbers and names that look familiar. If you answer, it is about a scam trying…

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Published on July 19, 2019
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