👴👵 How to Start Your First Month of Retirement (AARP Article)

[Winter2025VA]

FROM THE ARTICLE.

Get accustomed to living on a fixed income, meet with a financial adviser, and other key steps to take.

By Bruce Horovitz, AARP. Published October 06, 2025.

After working for a lifetime, perhaps no month in retirement matters more than your first. It sets the tone for the decades ahead. It acts as a critical transition from your working years to your golden years. And it’s where you establish financial habits that can strengthen — or crack — your nest egg.

“This is when you start structuring the rest of your life,” says Jody D’Agostini, a certified financial planner in Morristown, New Jersey. Even something simple, like waking up and making your bed every day, can help provide structure to your days, she says.

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https://www.aarp.org/money/retirement/how-to-spend-first-month-retired/

[Winter2025VA]

[Saturday 11/8/25]

We would luv to hear about YOUR 1st month!!!

And maybe READ what OTHERS have posted.

Take care,

Nicole  👴👵  (Retirement Forum)

[Winter2025VA]

[10/7/25]

Oh yes, that 1st month. I was ready "financially" but NOT for COVID.

Sure put my moving back to Florida in 2020 on hold when I "retired". Prices went up on everything there and still is. So for now, my old a.s is still in Virginia missing my only child. Told her, IF I am still alive when they take my Driver's License away - I will move then. Meanwhile, CONTINUING to enjoy Virginia.

Take care,

Nicole. 👴👵  (Retirement Forum)