Rita, the downsizing designer, continues to inspire communities around downsizing, decluttering, and minimalist lifestyles.

How to Emotionally Prepare for a Move from a House to an Apartment

My in-laws are now at the age where they're ready to sell their large family home to purchase something smaller and are considering moving into a condo or apartment.  It's tough for sure. All their memories are contained within that house and after decades of living in the same place, they've collected a lot of [...]

By |2016-08-07T01:04:55+00:00August 7th, 2016|A Peek into Your Good Life, Baby Boomers, bucket list, community, downsizing, lifestyle, living in smaller spaces, minimalism, Renting Trend, retirement, simplify your life, Start Your Good Life, Starting the Good Life|Comments Off on How to Emotionally Prepare for a Move from a House to an Apartment
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Reverse Migration: How Baby Boomers Are Transforming City Living

It’s the traditional migratory circle of life: Young folks flock to the blazingly bright cities to make their careers and have their kicks; middle-aged peeps move to the burbs, buy homes, and raise their broods; older Americans search out warmer, cheaper, and more water-aerobic-centric climes to make their retirement nests. End of story, right? But hold on. Baby [...]

By |2016-08-04T00:54:02+00:00August 4th, 2016|A Peek into Your Good Life, Baby Boomers, bucket list, community, downsizing, lifestyle, living in smaller spaces, Renting Trend, retirement, simplify your life, Start Your Good Life, Starting the Good Life, travel|Comments Off on Reverse Migration: How Baby Boomers Are Transforming City Living
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Vacations For Traveling Boomers: 10 Best Spots

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that today’s 50+ generation — which is notoriously outspoken and influential — likes to rewrite the book. From parenting to marriage to retirement, boomers have found and continue to find new ways of separating their values from those of their parents. One of the clearest examples of [...]

By |2016-08-03T12:59:18+00:00August 3rd, 2016|A Peek into Your Good Life, Baby Boomers, bucket list, community, lifestyle, retirement, simplify your life, Start Your Good Life, Starting the Good Life, travel|Comments Off on Vacations For Traveling Boomers: 10 Best Spots
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For Baby Boomers, Apartments are the New American Dream

Years ago, the so called “Baby Boomer” generation defined the American Dream as having a house with a white picket fence. But now as this generation begins to age, retire, and downsize, the American dream has changed. It is now apartments that the Baby Boomers are moving to in droves. Baby Boomers (those born between [...]

By |2016-08-03T12:42:06+00:00August 3rd, 2016|A Peek into Your Good Life, Baby Boomers, bucket list, community, downsizing, lifestyle, living in smaller spaces, minimalism, Renting Trend, retirement, simplify your life, Start Your Good Life, Starting the Good Life, travel|Comments Off on For Baby Boomers, Apartments are the New American Dream
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Baby Boomer Travel: Why and Where They Go

The top priority of baby boomers is traveling the world, and they’re turning traditional ideas of retirement on its head as they do so. That’s what Virtuoso Chairman and CEO Matthew Upchurch told CNBC viewers July 10, in an interview on Squawk Box focusing on baby boomer travel priorities. Baby Boomer Travel Booming “The number one [...]

By |2016-08-01T23:41:28+00:00August 1st, 2016|A Peek into Your Good Life, Baby Boomers, bucket list, community, downsizing, lifestyle, retirement, simplify your life, Start Your Good Life, Starting the Good Life, travel|Comments Off on Baby Boomer Travel: Why and Where They Go
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Best Outdoor Retirement Towns in America

If you have been hankering to retire to a place where the great out of doors is, well, right out your door, there is a new book you might want to pick up.  “Best Outdoor Towns” by Sarah Tuff & Greg Melville. The authors researched the best outdoor towns by looking at access to state [...]

By |2016-07-29T21:22:15+00:00July 29th, 2016|A Peek into Your Good Life, Baby Boomers, bucket list, community, downsizing, lifestyle, living in smaller spaces, retirement, simplify your life, Start Your Good Life, Starting the Good Life, travel|Comments Off on Best Outdoor Retirement Towns in America
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Where to Go for the Best Retirement Lifestyles

A few baby boomers know exactly what they want to do when they retire. These folks are lucky in many ways, because they have probably been busy planning where and when they are going to achieve all of their plans. But far more boomers probably only have a loose idea, at best, for how they [...]

By |2016-07-29T00:25:32+00:00July 29th, 2016|A Peek into Your Good Life, Baby Boomers, bucket list, community, downsizing, lifestyle, retirement, simplify your life, Start Your Good Life, Starting the Good Life, travel|Comments Off on Where to Go for the Best Retirement Lifestyles
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How To Follow Your Dream And Spend Your Retirement Traveling The World

Many avid travelers fantasize about ditching all their possessions and hitting the road during retirement. Lynne and Tim Martin have actually done it. Three years ago they sold their house in California, gave away any belongings that wouldn’t fit in a 10 foot by 15 foot storage locker and declared themselves “home free.” Her memoir, [...]

By |2016-07-29T00:15:38+00:00July 29th, 2016|A Peek into Your Good Life, Baby Boomers, bucket list, community, downsizing, lifestyle, living in smaller spaces, Renting Trend, retirement, simplify your life, Start Your Good Life, Starting the Good Life, travel|Comments Off on How To Follow Your Dream And Spend Your Retirement Traveling The World
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America’s Best Cities for Fall Travel

Even bears prefer Chicago during the autumn. “It's cooler, the trees on Michigan Avenue are 
turning colors, and it's a great time to visit Brookfield and Lincoln Park zoos," says Lillian Polz, the head of a Chicago marketing firm. "The animals that were lethargic
 during the summer—like the bears and big cats—are all in their [...]

By |2016-07-28T13:29:43+00:00July 28th, 2016|A Peek into Your Good Life, Baby Boomers, bucket list, community, lifestyle, retirement, simplify your life, Start Your Good Life, Starting the Good Life, travel|Comments Off on America’s Best Cities for Fall Travel
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7 Benefits of Immersive Travel Experiences

We travel to discover new things — about ourselves and about the world around us. Immersive travel allows us to dive headfirst into the experiences that allow us to do just that, and so much more. While some travel styles involve dipping a toe in the pool of a new culture, immersive travel means just what [...]

By |2016-07-25T01:45:44+00:00July 25th, 2016|A Peek into Your Good Life, Baby Boomers, bucket list, community, lifestyle, retirement, simplify your life, Start Your Good Life, Starting the Good Life, travel|Comments Off on 7 Benefits of Immersive Travel Experiences
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