Early Retirement Blog

It’s the end of week 2, of how to retire in San Francisco with less than a million dollars, let’s take a look at the budget and see how we are doing: Uh Oh! Still a thousand dollars left in our budget, with our two major expenses (housing and health-care), out of the way. It’s [...]

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In an interview done by AFP titled, “Lifestyle changes can curb climate change”, the winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Mr. Rajendra Pachauri made an important admission. From the article: The 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), issued last year, highlights “the importance of lifestyle changes,” said Rajendra Pachauri at [...]

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You may think that with less than a million dollars, to retire in San Francisco, you’ll have to live in a crime and drug infested neighborhood. Wrong, wrong, wrong! With less than a million dollars, you can retire in the nicest neighborhood in San Francisco, perhaps one of the nicest in the nation – Telegraph [...]

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Green Retirement   A new approach to saving your retirement and the planet.   San Francisco, CA, January 15, 2008– Falling house prices, a sinking stock market, and an economy in danger of entering into a recession, all may have a negative affect on the net worth of the nearly 80 million American baby boomers [...]

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According to the U.S. State Department, 6.6 million U.S. citizens (about 2% of the population), live outside the United States.  Some are in the military, others are students, employees of foreign and domestic companies, retirees, spouses of foreigners, and escaped felons, amongst many other reasons Americans live abroad. Retiring Overseas Before I started Green Retirement, [...]

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My first Retirement Ad on YouTube. I know it’s not very exciting, but it makes the point, and will only waste 30 seconds of your life. If you want to see an exciting video – check out my surf video – I produced that video in another life. This Retirement Ad is meant to get [...]

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Using the Green Retirement method of retirement planning, is simple and easy, and allows you to retire early with less savings. I have created a 12-step program for over-coming over consumption, which is essential, if you want to take advantage of this new retirement planning method. However, there are a few more things you will [...]

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The easiest part of this experiment, retiring in San Francisco with less than a million dollars, is calculating the maximum monthly budget. Using the Green retirement formula,  I know that a million dollars gives me a monthly budget of $3,333.  So now, we are going to find out, not only if it is possible to [...]

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If retirement means – to no longer work. Then let’s retire Christmas. It no longer works. These last few days, I have been stepping over countless Christmas trees, strewn along the streets and sidewalks of San Francisco. Where only a month ago, they were adored and adorned, they now lie in the gutter. Nothing symbolizes, [...]

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If you are retired – are you fed-up with the Federal Reserve? Many retirees are invested in, U.S Treasury bonds and bills, and are watching their incomes drop. Since the credit crisis began, in August 2007 , the Federal Reserve has been lowering the interest rates on treasury securities. At the same time, inflation especially [...]

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