Choose Your Own Retirement Adventure


















It’s morning and you’re out the door. Immediately your home’s smart devices take over, dialing down the heat, turning off the coffeemaker, and arming surveillance inside and out. In the car, rain-sensing wipers activate at the first drops; adaptive cruise control maintains a steady pace; and upon arrival, parking assist gets you into a tight space, no problem.
The goal for most, when planning for retirement, is to ensure financial independence and never run out of money.
In her virtual manifesto on the spending fast, “My Year of No Shopping,” author Ann Patchett discovered that, “The unspoken question of shopping is ‘What do I need?’ What I needed was less.”