Quick question: How long is the average length of retirement? None of us know for certain, but some are surprised to learn it’s almost 20 years. The U.S. Census Bureau says the average length of retirement is 18 years. But that’s just an average. An increasing number of Americans are living to age 100, which […]
Spoiler alert: you won’t be young forever. Some day you will retire. Everyone. Now what that looks like is up to you. Will you be knitting and porch sitting? Or more likely starting your own side hustle and traveling the world? Either way – you want to enjoy it, and the happiness odds increase if […]
When you hit your 40s and 50s no one wants to talk about retirement. Retirement once felt like it was a long way off … now it feels like a cop car zooming up behind you in your rear view mirror with its lights flashing. We hate to state the obvious, but retirement is coming. […]
This last week, we lost some tulips (thank you, hail) and enjoyed some track meets (thank you, sunshine), and now we’re back to talk about retirement, specifically for entrepreneurs. More and more people are joining the ranks of entrepreneurs these days. Technology and even crowdfunding is making it easier for anyone to launch a product […]
Saving for retirement sounds a little like eating kale. They say we “should” do both, but nobody really wants to. It’s hard to clearly see today what retirement might look like in the future. So who else needs some motivation to save for retirement? If the research is accurate two-thirds of us need to get […]
There is no debating that things have been tough for kids graduating from college the past 8 years. Here is a statistic we recently stumbled across: “One in five people in their 20s and early 30s is currently living with his or her parents. And 60 percent of all young adults receive financial support from […]
Does an “empty nest” equal an empty bank account? It doesn’t have to. But a nationwide trend shows over two-thirds of parents over the age of 50 financially supported a child older than 21 in the last five years. The practice is so common psychologists named this period of extended child dependency “emerging adulthood.” This […]
