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• For #6, "enough" vs. "more" is true wisdom. I learned that the hard way. But I now know "more" isn't always better. And #8 is spot-on. Retirement hasn't meant idleness for me. If anything, I have never been more active. And, when I want to, it's wonderful to be idle any time and for as long as I like. By the way, thank you, Jonathan! I have been reading your work for decades and I have internalized many of your lessons. Thanks to you, I am on a better path than I would have otherwise been.

  Post: What We Believed

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• I have been a longtime reader of Jonathan Clements and owe much of my present-day solid financial footing to his many WSJ columns that I internalized starting in the mid 90’s. (Thank you, Jon!) When my kids were young and they claimed they witnessed wealth when they saw a fancy car or house, I would paraphrase Jon by saying that you can easily see what someone spent, but what they saved was invisible. That was painfully clear when many mansions in my neighborhood went into foreclosure around 2009. Separately, and not to be looking for nits, but there are more than 22 millionaires in the United States. Dropped word?

  Post: Who wants to be a millionaire?

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