One reason I wanted to purchase a small modest house, was basically for retirement. As I don't expect to strike it particularly rich in my lifetime, and since social security won't be around much longer, I have to figure eventually my health will fail and I'll have to hang it up. I have a little money going into a 401k, that in combination with a paid for house that will hopefully be updated enough to carry us to death, and maybe a little part time job to fill in the financial gaps is my "senior plan"....
That's all I really want to say about "social security", as much as people in my parents age group like to complain about my generation, and the millennials, I can honestly say they really f___ed us with this one... They'll never "cancel" social security, because that would mean they'd have to stop taking the money out of our paychecks. They'll just raise the eligibility age to where few people will live long enough to draw it.
Hope ya'll baby boomers enjoy it... and you're welcome by the way....

Meanwhile, myself, my sister, my daughter, etc get to work until the day we die. #MAGA! WHOOHOO!!!
Anyway, enough of that....
Hopefully, in the coming weeks I'll receive news that will relieve my worry that I might have had another one of my famed financial "epic fails". Hopefully the soil engineer will come up with a septic system that we can afford... or guess what... BACK TO RENTING! Oh and we get to pay a mortgage too! HOORAY!
Sorry... it's been a taxing several weeks, and I've had about all the "thoughts and prayers" I can handle....
