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Gary and Pat: These Former Educators Give a Master’s Class on Retirement Planning

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Editor’s note. This is another in our continuing series of articles exploring actual people’s retirement stories. Thanks so much to Gary and Pat for sharing theirs. See bottom of article for more baby boomer retirement articles. September 1, 2017 — When it comes to planning out a retirement and then…

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Published on August 31, 2017
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Retirement Planning: Our Members Are on the Move!

Category: Retirement Planning

August 23, 2017 — There is one very clear conclusion from our latest Member survey, “Selling Your Home and Retirement Planning” – our Members overwhelmingly plan on moving to a different home when they retire. And, they plan on moving on in much greater numbers than does the general population.

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Published on August 23, 2017
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Latest Survey: Do You Plan on Selling Your Home, Downsize, and Move?

Category: Retirement Planning

August 14, 2017 — Whenever baby boomers get together there is always one guaranteed topic of conversation – what are your retirement plans? Here is your chance to share your plans (and actions!) and compare them with what others in the Topretirements.com community are thinking about. Our latest survey is…

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Published on August 14, 2017
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What the Retirement Experts Should Have Said About Retirement Planning

Category: Retirement Planning

July 31, 2017 — Just like the childless doctor that gives parenting advice, almost every “expert” has a few things to learn once they actually experience what they have been advising on. Retirement experts are no different. We recently read a great article by Paul Brown, who co-authored several books…

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Published on July 30, 2017
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Retirement Lessons Learned: A Former Retirement Community Chaplain Shares

Category: Retirement Planning

March 8, 2017 — In this article we hear from Bill Painter, who served for over 30 years as Chaplain/Spiritual Director at Judson Park, a Seattle area Continuing  Care Retirement Community (CCRC), before retiring. Bill is an ordained American Baptist minister, clinically trained for health care ministry. He offers…

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Published on March 7, 2017
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Breaking Away – When the Rubber Hit the Road in Jeff’s Retirement

Category: Retirement Planning

February 27, 2016 — Editor’s Note: This is part 2 of Jeff’s retirement saga. Last month we published his account of How a Minnesota Boy Came to be Retired in the Heart of the South. This installment provides more of the decisions made and surprises encountered when he actually…

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Published on February 26, 2017
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Take This Quiz: Are You Ready to Retire – Or Not?

Category: Retirement Planning

January 15, 2017 — Not everybody wants to retire, even if that is the popular expectation. Many more people, even though they are old enough, aren’t ready to retire yet. This article will help you determine if retirement is right for you, and if this is a good time to…

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Published on January 14, 2017
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My Big Southern Retirement Adventure

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Editor’s note: Over a period of years we watched our friends Jeff and Paulette get ready for retirement. They thought about it a lot, made field trips, and discussed it thoroughly. Not without a little trepidation, their careful plans to retire to Greenville, SC came to pass this last summer.

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Published on January 5, 2017
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10 Years Later – What We’ve Learned About Retirement

Category: Retirement Planning

Nov. 29, 2016 — Your editor has been retired 10 years now. And over that time he has written hundreds of articles that freely dispensed advice about retirement to tens of thousands of people. So what, if anything, has he learned during this decade, and what advice would he give…

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Published on November 29, 2016
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