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Over 50 and embarking on a five year plan to retirement - debt reduction, savings and getting rid of years accumulation of stuff. Can it be done in 5 years? Goal: to move to Nova Scotia and become a bee-keeper, raise alpacas? Life begins at Retirement!
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Weekly Wrap & Other Crap (How to get Great Stuff for FREE!!)
From Life Begins at Retirement, 4 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Only one week left of October - that's CRAZY!! Where did the month go'? Well, I slept the last week away in a kind of daze, that's why I've been MIA for the last few days. (daze - days - I'm a poet!!) I have been feeling VERY TIRED, can't get rid of my cold, and work has been crazy-busy what with progress reports, IEPs, parent/teacher interviews, meetings......so for a few nights I was going to bed at 8 or 9pm.
"Ok - Exhibit A" (maybe I missed a career as a rapper!)
The Good News: I did NOT...
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Making a Dent
From Life Begins at Retirement, 4 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
No photos, fridge looks about the same. Kazi and I have eaten 3 containers of soup, the leftover pad thai is gone and a salad container is almost empty. So there has been a bit of space created but it's hardly noticeable at this point. That's ok though, nothing NEW is going in there for at least two more weeks! Well, Michael hard-boiled half a dozen eggs but that doesn't count...they are the same eggs that were already in the fridge - they've just changed from liquid to solid.
This Saturday,...
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Looks Like It's a Challenge!
From Life Begins at Retirement, 4 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Before I get to the CHALLENGE I'd like to show you what I bought from Novica. Yes, I'm a WINNER, but then you already knew that! Recently Judy had a give away on her blog which was a gift certificate for Novica and I WON! Let me just say that I have worn "le scarfe" every day since it came in the mail (Friday).
It is drop dead gorgeous!! (I call it "le scarfe" because a friend of mine a while back spelled scarf with an "e" by mistake and it became quite the inside joke...personally I...
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RERUN! Ratatouille Part Two!!
From Life Begins at Retirement, 4 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Today was pretty cold and rainy, only 7c when I took Michael to work at 8:30am. It was a really really good day anyways though because the cold reminded me of all the things I enjoy about winter! I bought BOTH the Globe and Mail and the National Post newspapers early this morning and enjoyed a nice cozy read INSIDE in my lazyboy! Lest you think that's all I did today I also did the laundry and made my first pot of Ratatouille of the cold season. Nothing better than reading the paper with...
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GOALS 2011-2012
From Life Begins at Retirement, 4 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
One thing I noticed about my 2010-2011 goals review was that I had too many of them - some of them I had forgotten about so I'm going for simplicity this year. I do better when I keep things streamlined, when they get too complex I totally tune out. So here goes.
Financial Goals:
Increase total savings from $56,398 to $67,000 over the next 12 months (this is long-term savings only: RSPs (interest only) and TFSA (Tax Free Savings Account)
Save $600 towards the purchase of a new camera
Save...
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GOAL SETTING: PART ONE - YEAR IN REVIEW
From Life Begins at Retirement, 4 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
You'll never reach a financial goal you never set.
How profound! Wish I'd said it. But no, I snagged it from "We the Savers - The Official Blog of Savers".
Here are the goals I set last October...I wonder how I did!
Financial Goals 2010:
I'll start with the goals that are easy to measure (with a calculator in hand).Save another $5000 for my TFSA (at $650 savings/month this should by attained by August, 2010) - Will be achieved TOMORROW!! Late but I will still count as a...
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Lesson Learned
From Life Begins at Retirement, 4 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I had a pretty tough holiday weekend as you can see...
My nephew and his partner invited us to their cottage for Thanksgiving. The sun was shining, the temperature in the mid 20's (celcius!) Lake Erie was calm and soothing...
The martinis flowed...
So did the wine...
After a wonderful dinner of roast turkey, stuffing, carrots, mashed potatoes and gravy, pumpkin pie and whipped cream we sat outside and listened to the waves...they have a chiminea so we sat...
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Lost and Found
From Life Begins at Retirement, 4 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Tuesday - No Spend Day! I made myself a tea at school, grabbed a free newspaper from the office and sat outside in the sun at Starbucks - the one whose patio gets the afternoon sun. As I sat there I swear I could hear the birds going "cheap cheap!"
I have "lost and found" the same two pounds for the last two weeks!! I've been falling off the wagon...a lot! Very frustrating - I don't think I'm going to hit my goal of another 10 pounds off by November! My rate when I was just losing was about...
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999 Days to Go til Retirement
From Life Begins at Retirement, 4 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Just a quickie post to point out that my countdown widget has finally dropped to below 1000 days until retirement. When I started my financial retirement plan I had a SEVEN year plan and 2555 days to go! This is all contingent upon having enough $$ to retire on but things look good as of today!!
Woo hoo - 999 days to go!!
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No Spend Days
From Life Begins at Retirement, 4 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
How's THAT for motivation' My plan this week is to have 5 No Spend days, including today. And gathering from the way I'm feeling it shouldn't be too difficult. My cold symptoms went underground yesterday and I thought I had really evaded the bullet. Ha ha on me. So I stopped taking oil of oregano thinking smugly that I had pulled a fast one on these puppies:
Yes, today I started having symptoms again so it's back on the oil of oregano though I think I'm past the point of no return....
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