03Mar 2017 by The Roamer No Comments
My one goal this year

My one goal this year

Family, Mini Retirement series, Retirement, Travel
Yearly goals are a thing for me. They have been since I got pregnant with my son in college. I really do attribute my success in finishing school, after having a kid, to the focus that goal setting gives me. Back then I used to do it every semester, but now I set yearly goals. I have a tendency to over do it, but this year I am not. This year I have ONE goal. Usually I separate goals into categories: family, money, work, travel. Then I choose 3 or 4 or more for each category. ( If you don't believe me, check out my goals for 2015) This year just ONE. The goal: (more…)
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14Aug 2015 by The Roamer 4 Comments
Shooting for Early Retirement

Shooting for Early Retirement

Finance, Retirement, Saving
I don't remember and don't want to go back and look at all the previous Traveling Wallet posts. But......Do you even know what our retirement goal is? I don't think that I have shared it with you. I guess in a way I always wanted  to retire early but that to me meant at 50. I first started thinking about retirement because at my new full time job I had to decide what to do about this 401k thing. As I learned I thought 65 just sounded wrong specially with the acceptable retirement age getting older and older. It almost seemed like it was just out of my control. So I started reading about retirement, a lot of it was very negative but I also discovered retirement calculators.  I got…
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