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$5million & your piggy bank: financial planners’ standard target for retirement
January 14, 2008

“Mrs. Foster, you & your husband should save at least $5million for retirement…at least!”

[THUNK]
That’s my psychological (& literal) piggy bank passing out from that advice. Most all financial planners I met with last year suggested $5million be our retirement savings target (east coast).
What the SAM HECK do we need to save [...]

new book … rich and thin: slim down, shrink debt, & turn calories into cash
September 6, 2007

I’ve only read excerpts from this book, plus a book review by Michelle Singletary.
Singletary cites major statistics on obesity within the book’s context: better eating means good news for your health physically & financially.
It’s a familiar theory. But Singletary describes a financial tool from the book called the Money Calorie Counter. [...]