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The Retirement Newsletter: Happy Third Anniversary
Welcome
Welcome to issue number 164 (17) of the Retirement Newsletter.
This week, I was going to discuss decluttering, a chore that many newly retired people undertake. I planned to discuss how I have been battling decluttering (and cleaning) for over three months, during which time I have learned much and read a lot about the subject. However, when decluttering my hard drive last week, I realised I had missed The Retirement Newsletter’s third birthday. How could I have missed such a thing?
The answer to how I missed the third birthday was pretty simple: it was down to my crazy issue numbering system.
Time to change the numbers?
If you have read any of my earlier newsletters, you will know that when I started, I used a slightly crazy issue number system — the issues had negative numbers.
The negative numbers were a countdown in weeks to my planned retirement — I started at issue -135. Yes, minus one hundred and thirty-five. I was 135 weeks away from retiring.
This all worked well, and I happily counted down the weeks until I got to issue -10 (ten weeks to go). Ten weeks from my planned retirement date…
