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How to Catch Up on Retirement When You Start at Fifty

GuideRetirementRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

How to Catch Up on Retirement When You Start at Fifty

Seventeen working years is a long runway. The math is less forgiving than it was at thirty, but it still works if you stop apologizing and start moving.

How to decide whether your next dollar goes Roth or traditional

GuideRetirementRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

How to decide whether your next dollar goes Roth or traditional

One question settles most of it, and almost everybody gets the math backwards the first time they try.

Build me a revision plan that I will actually stick to

How Much You Actually Need to Retire, in Real Numbers

GuideRetirementRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

How Much You Actually Need to Retire, in Real Numbers

Forget the million-dollar headline figure. The number you need comes out of your own checking account, and you can work it out this weekend.

Delicious.com — Nine thousand recipes and a plan for tonight

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The doorbell that talks back, and the mailman who saw through it

Gadgets6 min read

The doorbell that talks back, and the mailman who saw through it

A smart doorbell can greet the mail carrier from your phone. Grandpa tried it from the garage, with the garage door wide open.

Poll

Where does your phone charge overnight?

Read Your Social Security Statement Backward

GuideBRO SeniorsRay Okonkwo27 Sept 20267 min

Read Your Social Security Statement Backward

Everyone looks at the monthly number first. The page that decides that number is the one most people skip.

Money in the first ninety days after your husband dies

GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

Money in the first ninety days after your husband dies

Ten death certificates, one frozen checking account, and the decisions you should refuse to make until next year.

Names.com — The name is the first thing you sell

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Buy the safe for its steel, then decide where it lives

GuideGearWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Buy the safe for its steel, then decide where it lives

Most of what's printed on a gun safe box is marketing. Two or three numbers actually matter, and where you bolt it matters as much as what you bought.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

When to start your pension, and what waiting really pays

GuideBRO SeniorsRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

When to start your pension, and what waiting really pays

Delaying pays about 8 percent a year, guaranteed and indexed to inflation. There are still four good reasons to take the money early.

Lock down your accounts and your location in one afternoon

GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

Lock down your accounts and your location in one afternoon

The carrier PIN, the recovery email, the photo metadata and the data brokers — the boring fixes that actually stop someone from finding you.

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Home Defense Starts at the Porch Light, Not the Gun Safe

GuideSurvival & Self-DefenseMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

Home Defense Starts at the Porch Light, Not the Gun Safe

Most break-ins end at a locked door and a bright yard. Build the layers in order, and the last one almost never gets used.

Dude.com — 16 advisers who listen, talk and pray with you

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Car seats, strollers and TSA with a baby in your arms

GuideTravelNina Castellan23 Sept 20265 min

Car seats, strollers and TSA with a baby in your arms

The red sticker on your car seat, the free gate check nobody tells you about, and how to get formula through security without a lecture.

Poll

How often do you see your closest friends?

How to scam-proof your parents without insulting them

GuideMedia LiteracyRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

How to scam-proof your parents without insulting them

A callback rule, a family password, and the payment types no real agency ever asks for, plus how to bring it up without sounding condescending.

How to Report a Scam Call or Text and Protect Your Parents

GuideHow ToRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

How to Report a Scam Call or Text and Protect Your Parents

Forward the text to 7726, file at reportfraud.ftc.gov, and then do the five things that actually stop the next one.

Shirts.com — Design it with AI. Wear it this week.

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What to Do Before the Power Goes Out When You Live Alone

GuidePreparednessNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

What to Do Before the Power Goes Out When You Live Alone

One pair of hands changes the math on every emergency plan. Here's the version that actually works for a household of one.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

Light Your Yard So It Looks Good and Nobody Tries the Door

Garden & Yard5 min

Light Your Yard So It Looks Good and Nobody Tries the Door

How to Freeze Your Credit After a Data Breach

How to Freeze Your Credit After a Data Breach

Pressure-test my business idea

Locks, Lights and Cameras That Actually Do Something

GuidePreparednessDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

Locks, Lights and Cameras That Actually Do Something

Start with the three-inch screws in your strike plate, then work outward. Most of what makes a house hard to break into costs less than dinner out.

CancerDefying.com — The research, protocols and reading in one place

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Wipe a device in the right order before you sell it

Gadgets5 min read

Wipe a device in the right order before you sell it

Sign out first, erase second. Get that backwards on an iPhone or a MacBook and the buyer gets a locked brick and you get a refund request.

Poll

How often do you see your closest friends?