How Are Today's Markets Affecting Your Lifestyle?
Just curious "if" and how the current economic climates that are affecting the stock markets and more, might be affecting one's travels/FT lifestyle?
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- Red70... said..."Our kids may not inherit as large a sum as we may like, but some is better than none"//// no we are going to spend every dime of it before we go.
Wild.... said... " I'll get a nice raise in October once my DW qualifies for Medicare"////// We lost money when that happened... went from $24 a month Tricare for her to $104. - Market conditions have not changed what we do, when we do it, or how we pay for it. Unless you have to sell stocks to fund your lifestyle you should be sleeping well at night. Still buying a brand spanking new Bay Star Sport in a couple weeks. I'll get a nice raise in October once my DW qualifies for Medicare.
- No change. The markets have been bouncing around ever since they have existed. Just take them with a grain of salt.
Ivylog wrote:
Thanks for the tip. You better start shorting.
2oldman, in a year you will regret thinking the market has turned around.- OP, at 60 and 53 I question how far out on the aggressive stock limb you have your assets? Once retired it's too late to try and grow your investments... it's time to protect them. If anything, mine have gone up in value, not down.
2oldman, in a year you will regret thinking the market has turned around. 2oldman wrote:
Might wanna turn the TV back on....
Looks like the market is turning around as we speak.- Not affecting ours. After experiencing the extreme gyrations in the markets doing my working days, when I retired several years ago, I resigned myself not to be dependent on financial markets during our retirement years. Thirteen years retired and all is well. :)
- When the bankruptcy laws were abrogated, we were devastated. I was supposed to be comfortably retired instead of skimping and scrounging for small jobs to get the cash to maintain the coach. The changes in the actual market are just not even an interest now.
Matt - Looks like the market is turning around as we speak.
- Not affecting it at all, so far... :R We are both retired, no debit just current monthly expenses and we have a fairly good monthly income from retirements, SS, and VA disability. We both have small investment accounts at Wells Fargo and we have been able to ride the market ups and downs through the years. Our kids may not inherit as large a sum as we may like, but some is better than none.....:B
