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My wife and I are in our early to mid fifties and currently embracing our prime time. We have a good balance between living now and saving for the future. In the past twelve months we changed to a 9 day fortnight at work. Bought a camper trailer for long weekends and extended road trips away. Traveled to Europe last year and this month we’ll head off on another European vacation with my extended family. Sure we could reach retirement sooner if we didn’t buy the camper or travel to Europe but we appreciate the value our health fitness and mobility adds to these experiences. Workplace burnout and recent loss of good friends in their prime time motivated us to take action and stop dreaming. All going well our financial trajectory will allow us more choice before we hit sixty. Looking forward to your next book Bec.

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We are 62 and 68 and retired with approximately $500k between us in super, own our home and no debt. The interest we earn in less than we draw per annum but will most likely go the distance. We are living comfortably on $6k per month made up of $4k draw and my husbands part pension.

I feel alot of articles, comments and questions focus on living off your interest. I wonder why? Are people too focussed on leaving behind a big lump of cash in their estate? I don’t see an issue in using the money you have in super wisely over the years and not stressing about it. We travel alot while we can! Who knows what’s ahead? If super gets low there is still the option to downsize.

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