Retirement Yenta

Tip #162: Build Muscle Tone NOW!

Robin Murray — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:05:19 +0000

Retirement Yenta has been doing a not-so-scientific study among her father and members of her father’s generation. Papa RY is 85 and he goes to the gym every day, where he works hard to keep his muscle tone. Members of his generation are always telling your dear Yenta that, had they known better, they would have taken better care of themselves when they were young. This little Yenta recently read an article in the NY Times about how keeping muscle tone is the new buzz in the medical community. With this in mind, Retirement Yenta strongly recommends you start building muscle tone now, so you are nice and strong when you start getting a little older. The more you have now, the less muscle loss will effect you when you are old.

Tip #161: Re-educate Yourself

Robin Murray — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:08:57 +0000

Retirement Yenta loves a good party! AND, because Retirement Yenta loves a good party, she has forgotten a few things over the course of her years. With this in mind, your dear Yenta wants to suggests that you RE-educate yourself. Read your kid’s required text books, especially those of works of great literature! Not only does it give your noggin a workout, it will give you something for you to discuss with your kids (besides how they shouldn’t party so much). If your kids are grown, never fear, you can read along with your grand kids. If there are no grand kids in sight, get a neighbor’s kid to give your their reading list. OR, simply take a class all your own. Retirement Yenta says: RE-educate yourself. Maybe this time some of it will stick!

Tip #160: Consider Partial Retirement

Robin Murray — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:11:44 +0000

That’s right, Retirement Yenta is not yet ready to retire. She’s been “trying it on” for a while now…a week or two here and there. What your dear Yenta has noticed is that she enjoys having projects and work to do. By the end of a second week of “practice retirement,” this little Yenta is chomping at the bit to get back to work. Retirement Yenta has a friend who says “idle hands are the devil’s playground”–and she knows how easy it is to get bored and stir up some trouble. SO, dear Readers, with this in mind, Retirement Yenta urges you to consider stepping into the Retirement Pool slowly–one toe at a time. Consider backing off your hours at your job and starting to find your way around life with free time…this way it won’t come as a shock to your system when you go “full time retiree status.”

Tip #159: Get Fit

Robin Murray — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:44:39 +0000

Retirement Yenta, as you may well know, believes in a fit body and a fit mind. With the High Holy Days (the High Ho’s) rapidly approaching, your dear Yenta has turned her mind to spiritual matters. Like all good Yentas, this Yenta wants to share some good advice that she received from her friend, Adena Brenner: Dedicate each day to working on one aspect in our lives that needs improving and re-tooling. It might be reaching out to someone we may have offended. It might mean setting aside part of everyday to daven, whether the daily prayers or tehillim and to work on having greater kavannah. It might mean volunteering at a homeless shelter. It might just be a daily self accounting, a two minute a day cheshbon hanefesh.

Tip #158: Save Your Soles

Robin Murray — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:07:50 +0000

Retirement Yenta loves a cute pair of shoes. She especially loves to have her feet in something cute, functional, and fashion forward. In Miami Beach, this little Yenta likes to go to Shoe Freak. She especially likes to go to Sigi, who knows her Miami shoes! Sigi is a masterful sales person who knows how to fit your feet. Now, while they have crazy 6 ” heels, they have great shoes that a Yenta can wear to the beach or on a night out on the town. You can find the Shoe Freak at 610 Collins Ave. in Miami Beach.

Tip #157: Moisturize!

Robin Murray — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:28:03 +0000

Oy Veh! The sun in Miami Beach can make a Yenta’s face feel like a tanned piece of leather. You have seen this look, dear Readers. Older Yenta’s that have spent too much time in the sun are not a pretty sight. With this in mind, this little Yenta is trying to take care of her face. Retirement Yenta knows that a smooth face is the success of moisturizing. Retirement Yenta recommends the Tight, Firm, and Fill line from Beauticontrol. They also have a great neck firming serum that will help reduce the signs of the turkey gobbler that can occasionally start to sag from a Yenta’s chin and neck. Retirement Yenta says: moisturize, moisturize, moisturize. It will keep you from looking like someone’s dried-up crocodile handbag.

Tip #156: Go to the Spa!

Robin Murray — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:24:58 +0000

As you may well know, Retirement Yenta loves a good party and it is rare that this little Yenta will pass one up. Your dear Yenta also knows this: too much partying is not good for the skin. With this in mind, Retirement Yenta would like to advise you to walk past the bar, do not pass go, do not collect $200, just go straight to the spa and pamper your skin with a facial and pamper your mood with a massage. It will help take a wrinkle or two off of your brow and a kink out of your back.

Tip #155: Try on the Shoes of a Simple Life

Robin Murray — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:40:05 +0000

Retirement Yenta loves her shoes–maybe not as much as Carrie Bradshaw, but she does love a good pair of Sperry Top-siders. But, my dear Readers, it is not shoes for your feet that your dear Yenta is discussing today. Retirement Yenta is speaking to you about the shoes for your soul (not soles). As this little Yenta sits on her balcony in Miami Beach, during a day or two of vacation, she is enjoying the sun rise, and is realizing how simple a retired life could really be. She also is realizing how much she loves the hustle and bustle of busting her tuchas for her clients. Leaving the workforce is going to be difficult and this little Yenta needs to practice for it (that’s what vacations are for, right?)…but, she knows when the time comes, that comfy pair of Top-siders will look good sitting in the sand beside her feet.

Tip #154: Get Billed

Robin Murray — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:32:04 +0000

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

Robin Murray — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:34:05 +0000

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!