Mini-Retirement Testing
Posted on March 8, 2008 – 4:15 am Please comment below
Hello friends! Sorry I have been so quiet lately but I decided to take a little sabbatical down to Florida for a couple weeks. I thought I would try to test out the whole “Life by Design” Mini-Retirement and Location Independent Living type thing.
Although I didn’t go anywhere too exciting, I have to say that being able to taste what it’s like to be out of the rat race has given me some new found energy in pursuit of SlugMoney!
My Mini-Retirement was a 50% Success
Why only 50% success? Well…the travel, beach, golf, tennis, margaritas part of it was great! I mean I could really get used to it. Really.
“So what was the down side?” you ask curiously. Basically, I spent a shit load of money (even with a free place to stay).
Mini-Retirement(3 weeks)
Income: $127
Expenses: $2,134
Total: - $2,007
What Did I Learn
- I am not financially ready to retire.
- If I had to pay for housing, I would probably need a net income of about $4000 to live happily ever after (about $6000 gross).
- Never eat the oysters at Jimmy’s Fish Shack!
