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Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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of Paradise. Everything grows,especially the weeds and poison oak,and there is plenty of cheap water. You would think that we, of allpeople, who had spent years counsel-ing with retired and about-to-retirepeople, would have been sensible Inacquiring a place. But no—what didwe do ? We went hog wiki andbought two acres, thickly covered tally, physically, and financially If wehad given more serious considerationto our physical limitations. If one isto build a retirement home, it is bestto complete the home before retire-ment and thus avoid getting in be-yond ones depth, unless, of course,there is plenty of money! Make Your PlansFit Your Incotne Regardless of how well you plan,It will probably cost you more to liveafter retirement than you think. ItIs like planning a vacation. You esti-mate very carefully what it will cost,then add 50 per cent, and If you arelucky you dont have to wire homefor more money. Most of us in ourplan for retirement figure prettyclose on the money we will have
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Pioneers of both sexes and various ages are shown completing a course in furnitureupholstery which was sponsored by a Pioneer Chapter 256 Bell Telephorje Magazine WINTER available, giving consideration to liv-ing cost (and who can estimate thatcorrectly today?), medical and hos-pital insurance, trips, etc., but wedont leave much margin for emer-gencies. We are then faced with two al-ternatives, either cutting out some ofthe things we planned to do, or sup-plementing our income. There is another angle to makingyour plans fit your income. Do yourplans permit you to continue yourpresent standard of living? Through-out our working lives we have gradu-ally raised our standard of living inaccordance with increased earnings.At retirement most of us face a re-duced income. This problem presents probablythe greatest single difficulty duringthe adjustment period. It is veryeasy to raise our standard of livingbut very difficult to reduce it andstay happy. Too often in our planning we de-duct all

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