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Are You Saving Enough Money For Retirement?

by: MarkNelson
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Are you worried about having enough money for your retirement? Financially are you putting enough aside? Do you know where you are saving your money?

Many people are not putting enough money away so the can retire comfortably. In most major cities if you are 65 and single and living in a one bedroom apartment it would cost you around $20,000.00 a year for food, housing, transportation, and health care.

If you are single and live in a house free and clear from a mortgage, it would run you almost $19,000.00. If you still have a mortgage that would run you $26,000.00.

If you are a couple all of those numbers would be higher. Owning your own home and having it free and clear of a mortgage the numbers are $29,000.00. Without having your house free and clear from a mortgage it would $36,000.00 annually and if you by chance rented it would run you $30,000.00.

Social Security does not cut it anymore. Please look at those numbers again. Hopefully if you read this it is a wake-up call for you. Somehow need to build up a retirement fund.

What are you going to do if you aren't saving money? How are you going to survive?

You need to take the first step. Create a budget and see where all your money is going. Once you have your budget now you need to work with it every month. At the beginning of every month you need to find out how much you spent and where.

From your budget you need to find a way to start putting some money aside and creating a habit of saving.

You can do this, you just have to find a way to reduce how much you are spending or find a way to increase you income.

This is your future and only you are in control.

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