Green Retirement Blog

The August 8th edition of Business Week, has an article titled “25 Ways To Save More Each Month” link, by Ben Steverman. Number 1 on the list of 25 ways to save more each month is to - Track Every Expense. Not only is tracking your expenses important, in helping you to save more […]

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Can a person retire on just their Social Security payments? Yes!
For whatever reason, if you have reached the age when you can collect Social Security, and have not been able to save for retirement you don’t need to delay your retirement. You can retire on only your Social Security payments.
If you and your spouse, collect […]

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Want to spend less for gas? Retire. When you retire your work commute ends. You automatically use less gas. How much can you save? If you have a 20 gallon tank, and fill up once a week at $3.75 a gallon, you are spending $300 a month or $3600 per year. If you are a […]

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Dear Class of 2008:
Today you graduate, leaving your college or university lives behind, and enter the world of wage slavery. Too be sure, some of you will have fulfilling and rewarding careers, that will bring you personal satisfaction and happiness. Careers that will help others, help your family, help save the planet. However, […]

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Pre-Historic Retirement Planning
What is the natural age to retire? The government tells you that 59 1/2, 62, 65, 72, are years in which you can retire. Those are the ages at which you are eligible to receive benefits from your 401k, Social Security, and Medicare. But I believe that somewhere between 50 and […]

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The I.R.S Doesn’t Want You To Read This…
By retiring, you can significantly lower your taxes, both in total amount and percentage. As you struggle to find ways of lowering your taxes, and try to file before the April 15th, 2008 deadline, consider retirement as your tax cutting strategy for 2009.
When you retire, you no longer […]

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Green Retirement Planning claims that you are wealthier than you realize. When most people think of their wealth - they think of their net worth. Net worth is traditionally calculated as the total value of your assets i.e, house, investments, cars, cash etc. Your effective net worth may be much higher, even double, because the […]

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Top 2 Retirement Myths
You need to be rich to retire
You don’t need to be rich to retire. You see the word “Rich” on the covers personal finance magazines, Money Magazine has the headline “Retire Rich” on it’s cover, and you assume that you have to be rich to retire. First of all, what does […]

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For most Americans, their house, is their largest retirement asset. One of the biggest questions in retirement planning involves - “What to do about the house?” If you live in your house, it is an asset, that produces negative income. Besides the place where you live, a house is also an investment, […]

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You are in love - you are planning to get married. You have discussed children, where you want to live, religion, your honeymoon, and many other subjects regarding your future lives together. Have you talked about retirement? Do you, and your soon to be spouse, share the same retirement goals?
In romance opposites may attract, when […]

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