Tip #154: Get Billed
Retirement Yenta is on a Save-a-Buck Campaign! She has recently found out that she can request an itemized hospital bill. This will keep the hoodlum’s in charge of billing at the hospital honest. You can bet your Tuchas that this little Yenta will be checking on every cotton swab she is charged for, if…G-d forbid, she ends up in a hospital. Retirement Yenta says: Save a Buck if you are down in the hospital, with no luck. Get your bill itemized!
Tip #153: Clean Your Bookshelves
Retirement Yenta is all about becoming more Zen and living with fewer possessions. Books have a tendency to collect on your bookshelves and then, once read, they begin to collect dust. Your dear Yenta has a new solution for you! Sell your books at www.cash4books.net or www.sellbackyourbook.com. It’s simple enough–all you have to do is type in ISBN numbers and they will give you an offer. This little Yenta says: Sell ya books, not only will you sell a book, you will make a buck!
Tip #152: Learn Something New
Retirement Yenta believes that learning is a life-long process. She also believes that learning new things will keep the ol’noggin working like a well-oiled machine. This is why your dear Yenta is trying her best to learn to speak the language of Espagna! AND, as you know, dear Readers, this little Yenta likes to save a buck. So, with this in mind, Retirement Yenta would like to recommend free college classes to you. You can take classes from Yale, MIT, and other schools. Visit www.education-portal.com and click on “Open Course Ware” for a list of offerings!
Tip #151: Look Up and Let Go!
Retirement Yenta’s little boychik (son) is taking a trip to Israel and is heading out tomorrow. Her sweet tokhter (daughter) is off at summer camp. Seeing her kinderlekh (children) growing up gives this little Yenta some anxiety. Oy Veh! What’s a Yenta to do? Well, dear Readers, Retirment Yenta has the solution: Look Up and Let Go! Your dear Yenta knows that anxiety is a self-defeating attitude and is now thinking about the good time her kids are going to have! This alleviates her fears. Plus, she knows that if all else fails, don’t worry, she’ll have a cocktail and just let everything go in one ear and out her liver.
Tip #150: Congratulate Yourself (Mazel Tov, Retirement Yenta!)
Here at the Retirement Yenta Home, we are raising a glass of the Yenta’s favorite Baron Herzog not mevushal wine and shouting “L’chayim” to the mountain tops! (We all know how this Yenta loves a good party.) Yes, that’s right, dear Readers, Retirement Yenta has made it to another milestone. No, she has not retired. Nooooo, her children are not out of the house–Oy Gevalt, will summer camp ever begin?!?! This little Yenta is wishing herself a big fat Mazel Tov for sharing 150 retirement tips. Today, like every day, Retirement Yenta has some advice for you: Dearest Readers, celebrate every milestone, no matter how small. Enjoy your life. Celebrate! Celebrate! Celebrate! L’chayim to all!
Tip #149: Delay Retirement
Retirement Yenta realizes that she has given advice to retire sooner rather than later. Well, this little Yenta (like any other sheine Maidel) has the right to change her mind. Recently, Retirement Yenta has enjoyed her work so much, she doesn’t know what she would do without it. Every project that crosses her desk is better than the last. Oy Gevalt! What’s a Yenta to do? This little Yenta has decided to enjoy herself in her work and stay in the race a little longer. Retirement Yenta says: If you love your work (and only if you do), stay on the job. It’s better than the flu.
Tip #148: Don’t Disconnect
Retirement Yenta occasionally misplaces her things. That happens when you are as busy as a beaver giving advice and preparing for your impending retirement. Once, your dear Yenta searched for hours and hours for her readers, only to find them atop her own head. The one thing this little Yenta cannot go without is her phone–AND, it is one of the easiest things for her to misplace. With this in mind, your dear Yenta suggests you keep a landline or another cell close by for those times when you lose your cell phone. Retirement Yenta says: Keep your land line wired for the times when you are tired and can’t find your phone. You can call yourself–like ET: Phone Home.
Tip #147: Save a Buck, Go on Vacation
Oy, Gevalt! The heat we’ve been having! Retirement Yenta loves warm weather, but the global warming we’re having can make a hot flash seem even hotter. I’m shvitzing here. This reminds your dear Yenta of a groys shmir (big deal) she thought she would pass along to you, her dear Readers. Go on vacation in June–the prices, how cheap they are. Retirement Yenta says: With the weather changing and heating up, go on vacation early and save a buck.
Tip #145: Pick A “Puzzle”– Solve It!
Retirement Yenta believes in a good challenge. She also believes that learning to do new things will keep your brain active and thus keep it from developing Senior Amnesic Syndrom (a.k.a SASs). Yep, that’s a fancy way of saying “becoming forgetful.” (Retirement Yenta feels fancy today.) Recently, your dear Yenta set a challenge for herself. She took on a work related puzzle and really had to dig around to solve it. Let me tell you, Missy, this Yenta learned a lot and has benefited from that challenge. She also feels revived and excited to do more work like this. Retirement Yenta says: “be like Peter Piper, Pick a Peck of Pickled Peppers and Puzzles…and solve it!”
