A new retirement is here.  The retirement landscape has changed!
There.  I said it.  But you already knew that didn’t you?
Things are different than they were three years ago in 2007, when the Dow Jones was above 14,000, your home increased by 15% every year and cats and dogs played nice together!
But now, in 2010, dogs are chasing cats again, your home has dropped by 15% or more and the Dow has woken from the dead of 6,600 but can’t seem to sit above 10k for more than a few weeks.
Things are different.

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Buying food in bulk and freezing for later is a common piece of money saving advice. In fact, I assumed that once we moved out of our tiny townhouse into our much larger house that I would be buying a huge freezer and fill it up with all kinds of goodies. After all we have a family of seven and would surely need that kind of food storage.

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We’re chugging along through 2010, trying to meet our goals for the year. Since we’ve automated much of our finances, we’ve had some extra time to pursue other goals. Something that I’m particularly proud of is our small garden out front. We have a kitchen garden, meaning everything that we’re growing is meant to be used as food.