Reply #10: I'll be turning 70. [View All]

[vixengrl]

And I'll be *sooooo* ready to retire by then, as if I'm not *now*. But I'm so used to people saying "No Social Security by such-and-such" that I'm like my grandparents' generation, ready to save every paper bag, twist-tie, and free restaurant sugar. If I don't *know* the benefits with be there for me--what can I do? Save. But the idea of investing in the stock market? This is why my grandparents' generation learned to save every paper bag and restaurant sugar. Because investing only pays off if it doesn't lose money. And if it lost the nestegg somoeone wanted to retire on? And they were left with the benefits' equivalent of minimum wage or even nothing?

:shrug: You can only save so much and work so long.