Comments on: Retirement Envy http://harvestingdollars.com/2008/11/03/retirement-envy/ Plant Knowledge. Reap Financial Gain. Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:51:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: The Struwwelpeter Edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance http://harvestingdollars.com/2008/11/03/retirement-envy/comment-page-1/#comment-1317 The Struwwelpeter Edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:48:21 +0000 http://harvestingdollars.com/?p=821#comment-1317 [...] Harvesting Dollars: When his coworker proclaimed that he was going for early retirement at the age of 56, Todd couldn’t help but feel envious. Have you been hit by retirement envy before? If you love what you do, it’s less likely that you would. [...] [...] Harvesting Dollars: When his coworker proclaimed that he was going for early retirement at the age of 56, Todd couldn’t help but feel envious. Have you been hit by retirement envy before? If you love what you do, it’s less likely that you would. [...]

]]> By: todd http://harvestingdollars.com/2008/11/03/retirement-envy/comment-page-1/#comment-1274 todd Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:53:50 +0000 http://harvestingdollars.com/?p=821#comment-1274 Thanks for the encouragement and advice. Perhaps this post cast me is more of a depressed light than I expected. :-) I am very excited to see what happens and the family size doubles, and I'm sure it's a gift from God! Thanks for the encouragement and advice. Perhaps this post cast me is more of a depressed light than I expected. :-)

I am very excited to see what happens and the family size doubles, and I’m sure it’s a gift from God!

]]> By: Justin "TheNightTrader" http://harvestingdollars.com/2008/11/03/retirement-envy/comment-page-1/#comment-1250 Justin "TheNightTrader" Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:59:38 +0000 http://harvestingdollars.com/?p=821#comment-1250 Dude, don't get so down :-)! Kids on the way is awesome, and by no means a reason to be down about retiring early. I think rather than saying kids will "replace" your plans for early retirement, you should say "delay". And yes, that early retirement means giving up a lot of fun stuff now :-(. Believe me, I'm about as selfish as they come, and it hurts to give up all the cool stuff my other friends are doing. But it's motivating to see that they're all now in debt that they will be paying off <b>way</b> into the future, while I plan to live debt free with no payments. What has really helped me and my wife is sticking to a written, cash-flow budget and using <b>cash</b> for all but bills and gas. Helps keep the spending down, which means more money to save away. If you need a financial boost go to a <a href="http://www.daveramsey.com/" rel="nofollow">Dave Ramsey</a> LIVE! event. I <b>HIGHLY</b> recommend his stuff! If you're not motivated after listening to him, you have some issues ;-)! My wife and I went through is Financial Peace University class as part of our pre-marital counseling and it definitely changed our lives for the better. Now I'm not saying I agree 100% with everything he teaches, but pretty darn close. Dude, don’t get so down :-) ! Kids on the way is awesome, and by no means a reason to be down about retiring early. I think rather than saying kids will “replace” your plans for early retirement, you should say “delay”. And yes, that early retirement means giving up a lot of fun stuff now :-( .

Believe me, I’m about as selfish as they come, and it hurts to give up all the cool stuff my other friends are doing. But it’s motivating to see that they’re all now in debt that they will be paying off way into the future, while I plan to live debt free with no payments. What has really helped me and my wife is sticking to a written, cash-flow budget and using cash for all but bills and gas. Helps keep the spending down, which means more money to save away.

If you need a financial boost go to a Dave Ramsey LIVE! event. I HIGHLY recommend his stuff! If you’re not motivated after listening to him, you have some issues ;-) ! My wife and I went through is Financial Peace University class as part of our pre-marital counseling and it definitely changed our lives for the better. Now I’m not saying I agree 100% with everything he teaches, but pretty darn close.

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