Archive for August, 2008

National Park Service’s America the Beautiful Pass

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RETIREMENT LIVING – FIXED VS VARIABLE RATE WITHDRAWALS

Hello,

My wife and I just returned from visiting our daughter and son-in-law in Pennsylvania where we celebrated our daughter’s birthday. I’m not going to tell you how old she is but I will tell you that her birthday reminded me of just how old I am.

One of us retiree’s most pressing concerns is outliving our retirement savings. Just how should we manage our retirement nest egg so that we don’t have to depend on someone else to support us later in life? Chuck Gibson, today’s guest writer, discusses one aspect of this question.

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SAVING MONEY ON TRAVEL

My wife and I love to travel. So far this year we have been to Orlando, FL, Myrtle Beach, SC, and Branson, MO.

Travel and “get-aways” are a real luxury when you’re living on a tight budget so to be able to take nice trips, ”Travel Expenses” is an important catagory in our annual budget (yup, we budget for everything). 

We will have lots of future posts on traveling for less so I would like to request your input on your travel experiences. Please share with the readers of this blog ways that you save on travel and get-aways. We will never publish your email address.   Read more…

COMPACT FLUORESCENT LIGHT BULBS

Well, I had so much to chat about today that it was really difficult to pick a topic but I finely decided to talk about Compact Fluorscent Light (CFL) bulbs.We have been hearing a lot about CFL bulbs lately but I’m wonder just how much attention us seniors are paying to all this talk. 

I have changed out most of the incandesent bulbs in our home for fluorescent bulbs. I did change two reading lamps back to incandesent bulbs because I think they give better light to read by and I left the decoarative bulbs in the chandelier in the dining room. But we use the dining room light so rarely that any savings would be negligible. 

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