Category: Retirement
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Little Hiccups
Just when you think you have everything taken care of, you find you really don’t. As I mentioned in a previous post, insurance was one of my biggest pains upon retirement. I decided to go with my TRS (Teacher Retirement System) Medicare Advantage plan (TRS Advantage). In order to make that happen, I had to… Read more
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Decisions, decisions…
I’m sure that everyone has many decisions to make once they have pulled the trigger and decided to retire. For me, the toughest decision I’ve had to make so far is health insurance. Hands down. My situation, though not the norm for everyone, may be similar to what many people have to navigate so I… Read more
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Pulling the Trigger:
I’ll be honest. I did a really terrible job of planning for retirement. Partly because of life choices, circumstances, and happenstance; and partly because I just wasn’t very educated about what I needed to do to retire comfortably. So, there I was in 2017 at the age of 60, beginning to think about retirement (yeah,… Read more