The Joy of Being Retired
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Retirment Planning for Retirees and the Soon-to-Be Retired Who Do Not Know How to Spell Retirement

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Did you know that the word "Retirement" is often spelled as "Retirment" in search engines?

In fact, the search word retirment appears in 4,588 searches per month versus 381,480 for the correct spelling. Someone even uses the domain name www (dot) retirment (dot) com.

Bad Spellers of the World - Untie!
- Graffiti from the Sixties

I don't give a damn for any man who can spell any word [including retirment] only one way.
- Mark Twain

The purpose of this website is to provide some retirment information for the retirees and the soon-to-be retired who prefer to see retirement spelled as retirment.

An Important Retirment Book That

Has Already Sold Over 125,000 Copies

(Excerpt from a review of The World's Best Retirement Book on November 8, 2008 in the Financial Post)

To be sure, retirement books are a glutted field, but most focus on money and financial planning. They view the finish line as the last day of employment. That’s where Ernie Zelinski’s How to Retire Happy, Wild, & Free begins.
- Jonathan Chevreau, retirement columnist with the National Post

Retirment Quotes to Help You

with Your Retirment Planning

A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to do. Why? It figures! In order to afford the sort of existence we don't care to live.
- Bradford Angier

Men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau

To fear retirement is to fear life.
- from How to Retire Happy, Wild and Free

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
- Michael Pritchard

I have retired, un retired, and retired again all in the past 10 years. I find the biggest trouble with having NOTHING to do is . . . you can't tell when you are done.
- Author Unknown

One week into retirement, you'll be so damned bored that you'll want to stick bicycle spokes into your eyes. You'll probably opt to look for another job or start another company. Kinda defeats the purpose of waiting [for retirement], doesn't it.
- Timothy Ferris in The 4-Hour Workweek

In retirement, every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day.
- Author Unknown

Retirement: A Time to Become Much More than You Have Ever Been
- from How to Retire Happy, Wild and Free

If you aren’t living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.
- Author Unknown

When money is lost, a little is lost. When time is lost, much more is lost. When health is lost, practically everything is lost. And when creative spirit is lost, there is nothing left."
- from The Lazy Person's Guide to Happiness

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.
- Gene Perret

If you don't plan for retirement you shouldn't be able to steal from others who did.
- Comment to Want to Talk Retirement

Retirment: When you quit working just before your heart does. - Author Unknown