After you\u2019ve worked for over 50 years and you think you\u2019ve made the right plans for your retirement, COVID comes along and changes everything. At least that\u2019s what I\u2019m blaming the higher prices we\u2019re paying for nearly everything.<\/p>\n
As with the rest of your life, you find ways to adapt. You watch for sales of the things you need, and you find ways to cut your expenses. You might even go out and find some part-time work to help with the added costs.<\/p>\n
Then trouble starts overseas, and the cost of gasoline doubles (yes, our gasoline is now $4.49 per gallon). You can\u2019t help but be shocked when it costs you over $70 to fill your tank at the pump. If you\u2019ve already curtailed driving to places you don\u2019t really need to go, you\u2019re stuck paying the price to get to the places you have to go.<\/p>\n
There are a lot of people who rely on their Social Security checks to pay their expenses, and when groceries, doctors, dentists, medicines, gasoline, and nearly all other costs rise as they have, there will be people who are forced to make very difficult decisions \u2013 forget going out to eat, it\u2019s become expensive to go through a fast-food restaurant drive-thru.<\/p>\n
What can you do? Hope something changes in your favor? Work more hours, if you can work at all? Try to cut your expenses? Change what you purchase?<\/p>\n
Personally, I\u2019m hoping some of President Trump\u2019s promises start to come true \u2013 like no tax on Social Security. It wouldn\u2019t add much, but everything counts.<\/p>\n
Have A Good Week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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