Baby Boomer Exercise: Comfort Bikes

I spent some money this week on a “comfort bike.” This was an exercise and baby boomer lifestyle decision that needed to be made. I will explain my logic. Read more

A Vacation as a Mini-Retirement

I have been quiet on the blogs for over a week. Since last Friday we have been hosting 30 family members (four generations) at our lake house which we bought in 2003. This has been our 7th “family at the lake” event. Each has been great fun and a blessing. is year has been no exception so I deliberately dialed back the blogging and work activities to almost zero. I could easily have made it absolute zero as an experiment in full retirement mode. But I was concerned I would enjoy it too much!

For some other reading until I return, you might be interested in my most recent posts for the On Retirement blog at U.S. News and World Report: Three Steps for Easing into Retirement and Five Attitude Adjustments Needed for Retirement Success.

I will crank things back up next week with some interesting things to report.

Thanks for reading.

Baby Boomer and Genealogy Records

I’ve been interested in family history and genealogy for about ten years. With some gaps in between, I’ve been reviewing and identifying old family photos and entering family history data into a genealogy program on my PC and on a genealogy wiki called We Relate. This being Memorial Day Weekend, it is an opportune time to write briefly about researching family history. Read more

Facebook and Twitter for the Baby Boomer Generation

Last year I became active in both Twitter and Facebook. There were many reports that baby boomers had become a fast-growing segment in social media. I joined up for both personal and business (blogging) reasons. Read more

Technology Upgrades for a Simpler and Lower Cost Boomer Lifestyle

I’ve written a number of times about exploring strategies for lowering our cost of living as we move closer to retirement. Some of these strategies are also intended to simplify our lives in the process. While it may seem counter-intuitive that using more technology can do either of these things, we are trying to show that it can. This week we took additional technology steps to implement our cost reduction and life simplification strategies. Read more

Green Building for Retirement Living

This past Saturday my wife and I made our first return visit to Long Branch Lakes where we are buying a condo for weekend/retirement living. The building finally reached a point in its construction where we could confirm the views of the woods and water we anticipated from the living room, solarium, and deck. We were quite satisfied so told the developer that we were sticking with our initial unit selection. I was also interested in seeing and talking about the green construction methods that are being used. Read more

Reduce Retirement Expenses by Using Free Time

When a baby boomer transitions from full-time employment to full-time retirement, many hours of free time suddenly become available. If you work 40 hours per week for 50 weeks each year, and commute one hour per day for 190 days worked, that’s 2,190 extra hours of free time that retirement will make available to you. Some of that free time can now be used to take steps that will actually lower your retirement expenses. Read more

Squandering the Kids’ Inheritance

Are you planning on leaving an estate to your children? Are you hoping for an inheritance from your own family to help fund your retirement? Let’s talk about this for a minute. Read more

Another Step Toward Lowering Recurring Expenses

Regular readers know that we are working to reduce recurring costs in our household budget. Aren’t all baby boomers doing this to financially prepare for a more predictable retirement? We took another expense reduction step this week. Read more

Using Time Wisely – Baby Boomer Edition

We are reminded periodically by others to “use our time wisely.” We’ve told our children that many times. This nugget of advice takes on more significance to baby boomers because we appreciate that a huge chunk of our earthly time has come and gone. Today I received another admonition on this very topic. It hit me hard and reinforced some of the decisions I have made in recent years. Read more

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