Are you one of those people who, as you entered your tween years, began thinking about retirement planning, or even went so far as to formulate and implement a retirement savings plan? If so, you might think that this post probably isn’t going to be your cup of tea. To put it bluntly, however, you would be wrong. You see, good retirement plans are not
This is not a post about how to recession proof your investments. That’s a different blog post. So. Retirement planning. Yeah. I really need to get on that. Don’t get me wrong, I have a defined benefit pension plan that will happily pay out a percentage of my yearly working wage until the day I die. The only thing I have to do is work
Do you plan on saving for your retirement one day? Do you want to go on that vacation first? Do you think you it’s too expensive? People have a lot of reasons for wanting to focus on their finances right here and now – and a lot of them of very good reasons. According to a 2012 Deloitte retirement survey, 58% of Americans do not
Spending Update: Need Improvements Here is my spending update for last week, unfortunately it wasn’t a great week for spending. I went $30 over budget in my entertainment category ($128.31) largely due to being too busy and too frenetic – I wrote a post about it, read more here for “a day in the life of Lindsey”. In personal care, I spent $65.00 for a physical
