Monthly Archives: January 2025
Downsizing Your Home For Retirement
If you have always had misgivings about the McMansion life, retirement is the ideal time to break free from it. Depending on your work situation, you might even be able to ditch your McMansion while you are still in the workforce, as long as your children have grown up and moved out of the… Read More »
Getting Real About Credit Card Debt And Your Estate Plan
Young people love to remind you that your generation had a lot of things easier than they will ever have. Homeownership was more affordable in your day, and so was everything else. Job stability and retirement pensions were easier to find. This does not mean that seniors are immune to financial hardships, though. Years… Read More »
Estate Planning New Year’s Resolutions For 2025
Congratulations on making it through 2024. Even if you still feel young, you are old enough that living to see another year counts as a victory. You are too old for unrealistic New Year’s resolutions like eliminating all enjoyable foods from your diet or becoming fabulously wealthy, but you are just the right age… Read More »
Your Estate Planning Hurricane Box
In Florida, no one has a basement; it is simply not possible to build a basement into the limestone. Likewise, most people do not have a proper attic. Every Florida household has a hurricane box, however; depending on how much space you have in your house or apartment, you might keep it in your… Read More »