Recent content by Myquest55

That is a huge issue! The husband of a friend of mine retired a few years back and they moved to western PA to be near a new grandchild. Turns out they never discussed retirement. She expected to live in downtown Pittsburgh and take advantage of the culture, museums, theater, music, etc. HE...

When we lived in Scotland, Morag was a popular name. I always thought that there were much prettier names for a girl.

We have Delta Dental through DH's employer in Tenn. It is cheaper than the Delta Dental plan in Maine. As long as they keep sending me a bill for the annual, I'll keep it. My Dentist always gets "Pre-Approval" before any procedure.

You don't have to be retired to need help. Our next door, single mom neighbor has 3 teens. In 2024, the boys had mowed our lawn for two years but last summer I realized that the Mom was doing it and I paid her the same. She looked so exhausted and knew she might be struggling as her divorce...

Having grown up in the "too big to fail" debacle and hearing about local financial "advisors" disappearing with everyone's money, I have always split our money between two separate groups - just in case. We have half with Thrivent and half with Prudential. Both were started with just a little...

My DH, a USNavy Submarine Vet, has always worked for an hourly wage. We moved around a lot, even after the military, for work and managed to upgrade our house a little bit at time so that when, we sold to move for retirement, we were in a comfortable spot. I handled the finances and invested...

I have a friend in Connecticut on MediCAID who gets a card for groceries every month. I'll have to ask her where it comes from. I would call the number and see what they tell you - ask them some questions. I suspect that you would have to be on some other assistance to qualify.

Just chiming in to offer my support! I was given a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer on June 1st. My second chemo treatment is this Thursday - I go every 2 weeks for 4 months, followed by 6 weeks of radiation. The nausea has been the worst symptom so far. Dr. told us that the average age for...

We tried to change over months ago but somehow our accounts became crossed (their instructions were less than clear) and we could not complete the transition. When I called Soc. Sec. they could not fix it and said that Tech. Svc. would call us back OR we could go in person to the local office...

I too probably misread my parents situations. I can only hope that we all can learn from that and take the time to actually EXPLAIN to our offspring and family, what is going on with us. DH has Parkinsons and his anxiety has ramped up to where he no longer wants to travel - anywhere! We have...

Good to hear! We tried to create our new sign-ins last fall but the website totally screwed up our attempts and no one from Soc. Sec. Tech Service every called us back. IF we want to access Soc. Sec. online we will have to go to the local office (which, I have heard, has moved 4 times with no...

I do both. I am currently a member of an amazing local group that meets at the town Recreation Dept. every Friday morning. It is the most welcoming group and we always find something to laugh about. Our membership list says about 28 gals and we regularly have between 18 - 22 every week. I...

I want to point out that all this fuss isn't just about the stock/bond markets. We have pissed off EVERYONE and it is affecting people's livelihoods. Our state of Maine relies heavily on the tourist industry. There have been several local news articles here about how so many people (mostly...

OMGosh, yet another dark and cloudy day! We could really use some sunshine....and NOW it is snowing again. But, once the coffee kicks in my plan is to continue with my phase one Swedish Death Cleaning as we get ourselves ready to move into the ultimate Retirement Castle :-) It takes us a...

I haven't changed a thing - yet. I also dabble - some stocks are actually up a few cents and some down a few cents so overall, things are holding fairly steady. We're just not sure what is in the future.