{"id":102468,"date":"2025-11-25T07:36:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/25\/at-44-i-was-broke-and-scared-at-63-i-retired-early-heres-exactly-what-i-did\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T07:36:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:36:56","slug":"at-44-i-was-broke-and-scared-at-63-i-retired-early-heres-exactly-what-i-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/25\/at-44-i-was-broke-and-scared-at-63-i-retired-early-heres-exactly-what-i-did\/","title":{"rendered":"At 44, I Was Broke and Scared\u2014At 63 I Retired Early. Here\u2019s Exactly What I Did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moneytalksnews.com\/workers\/images\/width=1920\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/04154642\/shutterstock_2228875949-scaled.jpg?s=3958211fdc766dff6f8970250821a4bb53e43b253607d3337a1c593ad9b9cea2\" alt=\"Happy smiling senior couple enjoying an outdoor sauna in winter\"><figcaption>Halfpoint \/ Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Advertising Disclosure: When you buy something by clicking links within this article, we may earn a small commission, but it never affects the products or services we recommend. At 44, Tom Weber&rsquo;s credit card statement made him physically sick. Between the divorce, his daughter&rsquo;s college bills, and years of just &ldquo;getting by,&rdquo; he had nothing saved and $11,000 in high&#x2d;interest debt.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneytalksnews.com\/at-i-was-broke-and-scared-at-i-retired-early-heres-exactly-what-i-did\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halfpoint \/ Shutterstock.com Advertising Disclosure: When you buy something by clicking links within this article, we may earn a small commission, but it never affects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-money"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}