I have a question for all of us retirees, a simple one. If, in our retirement, we find ourselves with money in the bank, what should we do with it? Simple enough. A number of options present themselves – give it to a deserving cause; leave it to the children or spend it on ourselves…
Category: Finances and retirement
Spend it to help
Those of you who have been reading these retirement blogs since the beginning (over 12 years, yes, really) might remember that perhaps my main mantra in terms of a successful retirement has been the idea of balance. Check out my early thoughts on the matter. In summary the components have been – outdoor activity /…
Spend or Save?
Social media, the newspapers and the rest are full of stories about punishing pensioners, financially that is. So that would be us then. Taking money from our savings accounts, taking away our heating allowances, increasing our taxes, getting rid of our triple lock arrangements, blah, blah. If we weren’t in the habit of ignoring, as…
De-cluttering my retirement
I’ve given you a couple of links in my last blog to the idea of de-cluttering in retirement well here’s one more from July 2018, just nearly four years ago, for this week’s retro retirement blog. I know for a certain fact that I have already written a blog about de-cluttering in retirement yet when…
A brief retirement blog about books and their role in my retirement
The message for this retirement blog is clear whether you’re a retired person or not. You can’t have too many books. Except perhaps under one set of circumstances – when you’re thinking about moving house. This probably at our age involves down-sizing but even if it’s simply moving from one property to another, it does…
A Friday retirement blog – doing the right thing?
Just a brief Friday retirement blog to ask the question – should I offer, even contrive, work to offer my neighbour because I think he might be struggling financially throughout the lockdown? And before you think I might be writing this blog to put myself in the best possible light, let me tell you, I…
A short retirement blog for Friday about spending
If you’ve read these retirement blogs over the last 6 years you will be aware that I often quote my grandma and her little ‘sayings’. She was a mine of ‘expressions’ that, at the time, seemed totally nonsensical to me as a child. Over the years I’ve come to treasure them to the point of…
Retirement blog about spending money – wisely?
Even though I’ve got a section of this retirement blog entitled Finances and retirement, I rarely write a retirement blog about this, all too important, aspect of retirement. Only three blogs in fact in the six years I’ve been writing. I’m not quite sure what this tells me. What it doesn’t tell me is that…
Bonus Blog : Financial Report, Part 2
If this blog makes me feel better, then writing as therapy really does have something going for it. I’ll let you know if it works. On with the story. You know in some ways retirement is much like the rest of life only maybe a bit more so. Every time I bury my head in…
Financial advice in retirement
I thought if I put in the above keywords I would be sure to move up the Google rankings. So here goes. “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.” Oh dear, Mr Micawber would not predict…