Great Fashion for Great Retirement Living

For living smart in retirement, I believe that fashion should consist mainly of T-shirts and Blue Jeans.

I don't sell T-shirts but I have designed a few for myself and had them printed by Zazzle.com.

Some of these T-shirts are displayed along with some of my favorite retirement T-shirt sayings at:

Retirement T-shirts

Also, I have posted at least 100 quotes relating to clothing, dress, and fashion on

Sensational Quotes about Fashion

My two favorites are:

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
— Oscar Wilde

"I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity — all I hope for in my clothes."
— Yves Saint Laurent

Of course, the natural companion of the blue jean is the T-shirt — the only two items you need to make a fashion statement in retirement.

What's more, style will last for decades whereas today's fashion is designed to be unfashionable tomorrow.

This means that fashion and money are companions only if you are the fashion designer and not when you are the one purchasing fashion.

Here are a few more quotes to place fashion and money and retirement in perspective:

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
— Margaret Oliphant

Nobody is so miserable as the person who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.
- Angelo Patri

An empty head leads to an empty pocket.
— B.C. Forbes

The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste.
— M.W. Harrison

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
— Coco Chanel

Reasons Why You Will Love Retirement

Here are some entries from 365 Reasons Why You Will Love Retirement

You get to fill your days with healthy retirement activities — such as swimming, bicycling, excerciing, and yoga — instead of unhealthy, stress-filled work activities such as meetings, boring tasks, and commuting.

If you don't feel like doing anything at all except lounging around your apartment — that's exactly what you get to do.

You no longer have to be nice to all those ex-coworkers who you didn't like all that much. Better still, you can send them anonymous nasty e-mails every day.

Here are some retirement quotes for retirees that will help them retire happy, wild, and free:

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
— Oscar Wilde

Webster’s Dictionary defines retirement as “withdrawal from active engagement in one’s occupation or profession.” It is in fact much more.
— Lynn Anderson

Retirement is a process, not an event.
— Unknown wise person

If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from men who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.
— Joseph Marshall Wade

7 Money Myths by Joe Vitale

Where are you financially today?

We are hearing a lot about a recession and how many people are having money problems. The key is to see opportunity in financial adversity.

Here are 7 Money Myths as provided by Joe Vitale in one of his recent blog entry.

1. Saving is not as powerful in attracting money as giving. The more money you give, from a heart of love and to wherever you feel inspired, the more you will receive.
2. Stocks are not as secure as acting on ideas. Money making ideas are gifts from the Universe; act fast on them and you can prosper fast.
3. Planning for your retirement isn’t as powerful as living now with an awareness of your future. Putting off your enjoyment of life is pushing away your current prosperity.
4. Investing in real estate isn’t as rewarding as investing in yourself. The more you expand your awareness and education, the more you can see the opportunities to make more money.
5. Beliefs such as money is the root of all evil block prosperity. The lack of money is actually the root of all evil. Being detached but respectful toward money will help you attract it.
6. Scarcity is a function of the mind; so is abundance. Human creativity can solve any problem and find ways to profit along the way.
7. Practical spending isn’t as wise as enthusiastic spending. When you buy something that helps you feel good, you increase your energy vibration, feel better about yourself, and tend to do more things to make more money.

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Retirement Living - Achieving Financial Abundance

Based on income levels, most Canadians are maintaining their lifestyles during retirement years, according to figures released by Statistics Canada in early March 2008.

Statistics Canada found that on average, a Canadian at the age of 75 received 80 per cent of the income they were earning at the working age of 55.

The study also found that retire income varied based on level of income during the individual's working years.

The lowest income individuals maintained nearly 100 per cent of their disposable income in their retirement years, mostly because of income from government programs.

"Lower income workers (those in the bottom 20 per cent of the income distribution) experienced little change in income as they moved from the age of 55 through the retirement years. This was largely because of the income maintenance impact of the public pension system," said the study.

"Better-off workers in the top 20 per cent of the income distribution experienced substantial declines in income by time they were 75."

The figures showed that on average, the more disposable income a person had at 55, the lower the portion of income that was replaced in retirement. For those in the top 20 per cent of income distribution at 55, on average, 70 per cent of their income was replaced during their 70s.

Retirement Quotes and Retirement Sayings That Come from How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free