Comments on: Your biggest retirement expense (and how to get rid of it) https://intentionalretirement.com/2014/10/biggest-retirement-expense/ Life is short. Be intentional. Mon, 09 Jul 2018 05:09:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Joe Hearn https://intentionalretirement.com/2014/10/biggest-retirement-expense/#comment-334 Fri, 06 May 2016 14:21:52 +0000 http://intentionalretirement.com/?p=3291#comment-334 In reply to Kathy @ SMART Living 365.com.

Thanks Kathy! Great point on the rightsizing. It’s really easy in America to just go with the flow and tie up an enormous chunk of money in a big house that you’re not really utilizing. Better to rightsize and free up some of that money to invest in things like lifestyle that bring a bigger “return on investment” than square footage that you’re not using. Thanks for following along. -Joe

]]> By: Kathy @ SMART Living 365.com https://intentionalretirement.com/2014/10/biggest-retirement-expense/#comment-333 Wed, 04 May 2016 15:40:19 +0000 http://intentionalretirement.com/?p=3291#comment-333 Hi Joe! This is a great article even though it seems so obvious. I completely agree that people don’t seem to want to face the fact that their housing can suck up so much of their retirement resources if not thought out and planned for in advance. My husband and I worked to simply and scale our housing back several years ago so that it is both completely debt free AND we have solar with all our utilities coming in at less than $50 per month. That’s a good feeling. And we don’t call it downsizing because that sounds like a person has to sacrifice. Instead we call it “rightsizing” and I’ve written about it quite a bit. Thanks so much for reminding me and us all that reducing and/or eliminating housing costs is a good way to go. ~Kathy

]]> By: Sam Pittsburgh https://intentionalretirement.com/2014/10/biggest-retirement-expense/#comment-332 Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:59:13 +0000 http://intentionalretirement.com/?p=3291#comment-332 Great read….good points!

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