The final years of work and the first few
years of retirement tend to have increased variability of either income, deductions, or both.
Not exact matches
She explained that retirees
tend to be more active in their early
retirement years, and the upkeep
of a larger house might pose no problem.
For example, she said, if a new roof lasts 20 to 30
years, living until 90 instead
of 80 means budgeting for one new roof at age 60 won't cut it; if they
tend to keep cars for 10
years, their
retirement might entail an extra purchase.
Both studies found that until Americans hit the latter
retirement years, when health care expenses
tend to scale up, they're spending far less than 85 %
of their pre-
retirement income, on average.
But in David's research, he shows that spending
tends to dip, expenses
tend to dip in kind
of those middle
retirement years where maybe the idea
of heavy travel isn't super appealing.
The time will come when time will run out for us too, and once we see that, we see also that for the 18 -
year - old at McDonald's as well as for the old crock in the
retirement - home cafeteria, every one
of our suppers points to the preciousness
of life and also to the certainty
of death, which makes life even more precious still and is precious in itself because under its shadow we
tend to search harder and harder for light.
We generally
tend to save more for goals such as Kid's education or a home purchase and less for
retirement, may be because we are more likely to expect our
retirement years to be financed by income
of other family members (children).
Then there's the fact that these costs arise many
years from
retirement: parents in their 30s and 40s usually can't afford to put away much for
retirement, so the bulk
of their saving
tends to come after the kids have left home and the mortgage is paid off.
While most
of us scramble to make last - minute RRSP contributions or start wondering how to reduce taxes in
retirement the
year we retire, the wealthy
tend to realize that building wealth and reducing taxes requires a plan that allows you to see decades into the future.
The word «
retirement»
tends to conjure up a certain set
of buzzwords: pension plan, 401 (k), Social Security, golden
years.
(Indeed, in a follow - up report Sibears examines the notion
of whether retirees even need to boost withdrawals for inflation every
year in
retirement, given evidence that spending
tends to decline as retirees age.)