Yes, Grumpypants, You Can Retire Without the Lottery
Motley Fool Answers
The Motley Fool
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
We play Pollyanna to all the negative voices in your head that tell you you'll never have enough money to retire (Yes, even if you don't have a big salary or are getting a late start). We also ask some of our favorite financial advisors for their #1 best way to be better with money in 2016.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Motley Fool Answers. I'm Allison Southwick, joined by Robert Brokamp, personal finance |
| 0:08.0 | expert here at the Motley Fool. He's also too shy to tell you that he's the advisor on Motley |
| 0:13.7 | Fool's Rule Year retirement newsletter. It's pretty good. It's all right. Of all the |
| 0:18.3 | newsletters I write, it's one of the better ones. I can get behind that. |
| 0:21.6 | That's the only one I write. |
| 0:22.6 | When it comes to saving enough for retirement, it can be really easy to let the pessimism |
| 0:26.6 | sink in. |
| 0:27.6 | But today, Bro is the chipper little Pollyanna in Picktales who's here to challenge all those negative thoughts in your head. |
| 0:33.6 | And no, I will not be doing the voices, but Mark Reith will. |
| 0:38.5 | We have a special guest. |
| 0:40.2 | And then I will ask our stable of foolish financial planners to tell me their best tip |
| 0:46.9 | to save more and spend less in 2016. |
| 0:50.2 | All that and more on this week's episode of Motley Fool Answers. |
| 1:02.5 | So when Bro's not busy tweeting, Instagramming, vining, Snapchatting, or whatever else the kids are doing these days, what are the kids doing these days, Mark? |
| 1:04.4 | Tinder. That's what I like to do. |
| 1:05.4 | We've talked about that before. |
| 1:08.1 | I do very few of those things except for maybe Facebook. |
| 1:09.7 | Well, that's right. |
| 1:11.6 | That's right, because... A recent trip to Facebook made Bro very sad. |
| 1:14.6 | And it wasn't because of all of his Farmville crops perishing in a freak nuclear reactor |
| 1:19.6 | incident. |
| 1:20.6 | Bro, tell us what made you sad. |
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