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How to Plan The Ultimate Early Retirement Bucket List
With all these geopolitical and societal changes, time to share my early retirement bucket list plan. The future is not the same as the past. In 1935, the US Social Security Administration (SSA) was founded. On January 31, 1940, the first monthly retirement check was issued to Ida May Full in the amount of $22.54. Today, that’s an inflation adjusted price of $529. She died January 31, 1975. Before SSA benefits, most Americans faced financial destitution until death. Ida lived until the age of 101. After three months on the job (2014), I knew working until death wasn’t for me. If I stuck to the normal age of 67, I’d…