What started out as straightening my desk top has gotten a little out of hand and I am going through the file cabinet. Being retired since October 2006 has brought some changes to our lives. When we were contemplating this new road I collected lots of things to help guide. Scott Burns is a financial columnist and I often follow him. The following is what I saved from the newspaper.
QUESTION: Your recent series on financial planning was interesting, but I still don't know the answer in my own case: "How much is enough?" I'm always trying to find the answer.
BURN'S ANSWER: My all-time favorite answer came from a reader: "You know you are rich when more money won't change where you live, what you eat, what you drive or who you sleep with.. Indeed, if you start thinking about either retirement or being "rich" in terms of dollars, it's very likely you'll never get there, because the dollar target is constantly moving.
This measurement works whatever your station in life is.
Means even more to me today than ever. Wherever you go...there you are.
I love my DG family.
Christi
Thought for the day....
That is a very good philosophy, people who are happy with their station in life and thankful for what they have, are lucky indeed.
Josephine.
LouC ~ thanks for sharing... That one is a "keeper"!!!
That is an excellent philosophy. I feel so rich myself. I have my health back, Jim is retired, we have a beautiful home and great kids and grands and all are in good shape healthwise and moneywise. We don't need for anything and can afford to buy whatever we want - read that word: W A N T . We don't NEED anything but if we did we could buy it. We are happy and well adjusted. There is nothing more.
Ann
That is a very good philosophy!
I don't want for anything and I can afford to buy everything I need.
I don't live in the biggest and most beautiful house on the block nor do I get the "Yard of the Month", ever, but I am the happiest man in the world.
Retired and Loving it,
Jerry
Jerry, having spent more than one vacation in our RV at Mariposa Ranch, aware that you truly live in God's Country. Many evenings we enjoyed the sunset from the top of the dam at Canyon Lake. The fence posts you have fashioned from nature are far more beautiful than most anything I can think of. Please continue to share pictures.
Christi