I confess. I do not read most of the information I receive from my health insurance companies. Now that I’m on Medicare I am dealing with 3 different plans: Medicare, United Health Care (for my Medicare supplement) and Aetna (for my Medicare Part D drug plan). (For a description of the different types of Medicare…
When it comes to Medicare and Social Security there are some very important ages that we all need to be aware of. Questions about the eligibility age for Medicare and social security are common. There seems to be a lack of awareness and a lot of confusion about these ages. This is probably since they…
So you’ve gone through that closet. Or maybe a whole room. How about your entire home. And now you have a big pile of stuff you no longer want or need. What are you going to do with this unwanted stuff? The easy answer is the trash. And sure, that’s where some of it belongs. Or maybe…
And D. and F and G and K, L, M, and N. Seriously, these are all types of Medicare plans. But let’s start at the beginning. Understanding Medicare was surprisingly difficult. And I have a Master’s in Health Policy and we studied Medicare a lot. But I was in my late 20s then and didn’t…
I’m guessing you do. For me, organizing my home is a continual process. I consider myself an organized person. That doesn’t mean my house is always perfectly neat and everything is in its place. But I do have my systems. And I think once you have those systems it’s easier to keep things organized even if at…
One thing about retirement. You have a lot more time. When I was working I just paid my bills and assumed I couldn’t do much about them. But once I stopped working I started going over everything very carefully and set out to reduce as many as bills as possible. The one bill that stood out was…
Ok I’ll just say it. This crackdown on password sharing by some streaming services really made me mad. I’m talking to you Netflix and Hulu. When I first signed up my daughter was still living at home. But then she went to college and then got a job and her own apartment. We kept sharing the services but…
I have always loved travel which is ironic since my parents were not big travelers (my mother has never even been on an airplane). Growing up we went on one vacation every summer to someplace we could drive to. But I had an aunt who travelled a lot and would bring me back dolls from…
I started Decoding Retirement Life with an aim of sharing information and personal experiences that I hope you will find helpful in building your own post-work lives. Figuring out how to spend your time day after day in retirement is not easy and can be overwhelming. It is also a continual process because the way…
