Nothing like the middle of the semester to get me mired in thought. I'm thinking about good students, bad students, disappearing students, and fraught committee work. I'm also thinking about retirement. I posted a question on the forums after learning some of my friends are either already taking Social Security or planning on taking it early. Has the advice changed on that?
Other things on my mind are the tuition bill juggling for DD's fabulous Scotland education. She's having a grand time after a few blips. But DH and I need to make some decisions about whether and when we might move to the UK.
And then I think about mundane things like food budgets and decluttering and whether we should redo a bathroom here. I should think about cleaning the house, but just thinking about that was made me decide to go for a walk in the wondrous autumn weather while it lasts.
October 21st, 2021 at 12:21 am 1634772071
October 21st, 2021 at 12:39 am 1634773164
You don't want to pay extra taxes or lose out on the best strategy for your particular situation, from not investigating and reading up.
Good luck!
October 21st, 2021 at 02:18 am 1634779139
The forums suggested that perhaps my friends' advisor wanted the fund under their management, earning the advisor a !% commission.
I try not to get into my friends' financial lives, so may shut up about it. But I'm waiting as long as we can.
I hear you, Wink. We may be a little less flush than I'd like the first years of retirement, and I know many people need the income sooner.
October 24th, 2021 at 08:18 pm 1635103083