Tax Day in the U.S.

If you’re still plugging away at your taxes, you might consider TurboTax if for no other reason than they give you this little "Retirement Distributions" icon:

Yet it still feels so far away.
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Prudential Rock Solid Retirement

If you’re a company, do you think it would be in your best interest to advertise that you want your customers to walk all over you on their way to the beach?  Prudential said just that in this ad on the back cover of the January issue of Smithsonian magazine:

Ah, yes, Prudential is your stepping [...]

Retirement ~ the beach allusion and illusion

Paradise retirement images range from the literal beach ads, like this T. Rowe Price one, to this very subtle Charles Schwab colors-only ad:

You have the beach, ocean, and clouds here — all in one otherwise hidden image.  The same colors were later adapted and added to other ads.  For example, there is this one for [...]

T. Rowe Price Beach

Hours of conversation are possible on the topic of retirement, especially where images of paradise are concerned.  We are programmed throughout life by images that tell us that at some point in our lives we’re supposed to stop working and start relaxing, and if we can start relaxing on the beach, we’ll be more fulfilled.
This [...]

Amazon.com Retirement Center ~ because books are needed while you slowly die on a sand bar

I hate ideal beach pictures that represent what we’re supposed to do at the end of our lives.  If you look at this one from the "Retirement Center" at Amazon.com, you’ll notice that this retired person didn’t even think to actually use the umbrella for shade:
It’s just a prop.  All of these images are just [...]

Humanity’s ultimate earthly goal?

Please please please tell me that this greeting card does not represent everything that we are all working for day in and day out. Please?

At least there’s some kind of foreign travel involved given the architecture serving as a foreground frame.
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