Your Retirement Guide To Living Cheap…Four Ways To Have It All
Posted by Gary P. Pierce | Under Travel & Leisure Friday Feb 12, 2010The guide to living cheap does not mean sacrifice. If you think you do not have enough money to retire…stop a minute. Here are four different lifestyles which has kept the writer and wife retired for 15 years. They are not only cheap they are fun as well…you can do this too.
1) Our favorite and most adventurous frugal lifestyle was living on a sailboat…we enjoyed sailboat cruising in the Caribbean for eight wonderful years. It was not only fun we only spent around a $1,000 a month once in the islands. Why that cheap? Anchoring is free…no cash registers in sight…and the view was better than people paying $600 a night in a fancy resort 100 yards from our boat.
2) Living on an RV was cheap and also loads of fun. In the summers (that is hurricane season) we left the boat, came back to the states and lived in our RV. Later we full timed on the RV for 2 years straight. Living in an RV is a great way to scout potential retirement locations for when you grow up…ha. For long term stays at beautiful parks, rent is about s450 per month…that is cheap folks. You can do this too.
3) Live overseas…we spent eight years in foreign countries. They are cheap, fun, interesting and safe. For instance one million Americans live in Mexico. For $1500 to $2000 a month you can live very well. Health insurance, many of their doctors trained in the US, is #270 a year. Ladies the above budget includes a maid. You are three times more likely to a victim of violent crime in the US vs Mexico.
4) Downsizing…when we moved from a 1800 square foot home to a 35 foot sailboat…about 50 square feet of space where you can stand up. You quickly find out that you can do without 98% of your stuff…and that is conservative. Downsizing from a big house to a condo is a piece of cake.
Yes you can still retire. We have done so for 15 years…having fun with no regrets. You can too…armed with the right information. You need the guide to living cheap. Interested?
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