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The Retirement Newsletter: Happy Birthday! The Retirement Newsletter is 2!
Welcome
The Past Two Years
Over the last two years, I have written 104 newsletters containing 62,441 words, and it would take a person with an average reading speed, 4 hours and 20 minutes to read all the past newsletters.
This works out to about 600 words per newsletter, with an average read time of 2 minutes and 30 seconds. (Please excuse all the stats, I can’t help it, it’s my scientific training.)
So, what have I learnt across the last 104 newsletters?
What have I learnt?
Well, looking back through the archive, there is one reoccurring theme, and that is Money. And when isn’t it?
Money — types of retirement
Way back in issue -127 (How much do I need to retire?), I introduced the three standard types of retirement:
- Essential — what is the least amount you need to survive? To live? To get by? Admittedly, not the most comfortable way to be retired, but you can at least be retired and have some freedom, albeit limited by money. Being retired…
