Originally Posted by
alabam49
Did any of you worry about making ends meet without your income from your job? Thats what keeps me from retiring. I keep thinking how my income will be cut in half (SS doesn't pay much when you retire before 66!!) But I want to retire NOW!!
I understand your worry. For about a year before I retired, I had dreams in which I was a bag lady. I'm lucky because I have a pension. I had to move out of the state I lived in because retirement money wouldn't have stretched enough to live there at the same level as when I was working. Life is good. I'm careful with my money and am able to take a vacation once a year and also visit my family.