Ready Set Retire

Ready Set Retire

Retirement – embracing the unavoidable

WELCOME to Ready, Set, Retire. As those of us born anywhere between 1946 and 1964 have started, are starting, are thinking about starting or trying hard not to think about it at all, retirement has become an unavoidable reality for we Baby Boomers...

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Any colour will be fine — so long as it’s silver

By Steve ‘Sheds’ Bain BEFORE I go on, a few of my known associates opine the shed I call orange is actually a shade of red. I’ve pointed out to them it might not be manly to know the various hues from pastel pink through to hot chilli scorcher...

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Take some smart steps along the way to the wide open road

Being a grey nomad is not simply a case of becoming a senior citizen, retiring (in either order), hitching up the van and heading north.

Andrew Mole

Ready Set Retire

Take some smart steps along the way to the wide open road

Being a grey nomad is not simply a case of becoming a senior citizen, retiring (in either order), hitching up the van and heading north.

Andrew Mole

Ready Set Retire

We are well on our way to stocking those sheds

STEVE ‘SHEDS’ BAIN takes a deeper look into the 3/8” range of basic socket types that are available in common kits

Michael Von Güttner

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Grandmas had me eating out of both their (apron) pockets

WARMING to my subject of last week, as a child I genuinely believed the homes of my two grandmothers were magical places (don’t laugh, but I still do).

Andrew Mole

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Step right in, sit right down

Ready, Set, Retire takes a look at choosing the retirement car.

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Be really common? Try a 12 pointer

STEVE ‘SHEDS’ BAIN concludes his inside look at sockets. Next week the accumulation for your shed goes on TWELVE point sockets (AKA double-hex sockets) are probably the most common type in our socket kits. They work with a very wide variety of...

Michael Von Güttner

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I was as thick as two planks

By Andrew Mole I WALKED into John Raccanello’s backyard with plans to produce a slab redgum dining table – complete with chairs – and was in no rush to get things finished. So fully expected to have that project in the ute and headed home in...

Andrew Mole

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You have to trust some good advice

By Andrew Zbik, Creation Wealth IN 2019, the University of Melbourne completed some research on how Australians feel about their finances and financial services providers. The findings were both sad and damning. What was sad? â– 1 in 3...

Michael Von Güttner

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Boom, boom baby, it is all the kid’s fault—absolutely

SUNDAY is Father’s Day. Woohoo. Once upon a time it was breakfast in bed, then it turned into interesting primary school artwork masquerading as cards, evolved into pre-teens and their take on tacky trinkets they were sure I would love. It...

Andrew Mole

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Radio? Sounds like an idea

Retirement unleashes opportunity; the chance to try those things you had put off for all sorts of reasons. This week if you fancied yourself as a shock jock or spinning some golden oldies, why not think about radio? Ready, Set, Retire checks out the...

Andrew Mole

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My dear old grandma was no material girl

LET me tell you a funny story about how I nearly killed my saintly old grandma. Accidentally, of course. It came about because I was charged with taking the matriarch into the city as she wanted a new dress for her 80th birthday party. As I recall...

Andrew Mole

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Don’t just socket and see, take the good oil from Steve

STEVE ‘SHEDS’ BAIN takes the natural progression from spanners to sockets as he continues putting his ideal armoury together to take on any task, big or small, in his backyard workshop. LIKE most of us, I’ve been using sockets all of my adult...

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It really was the good old days

AS A youngster I’m not sure I understood the benefits of vaccination – and if any of you can remember getting your first polio vaccination I doubt you wanted to hear about any others. Because my only recollection of my relationship with Jonas...

Andrew Mole

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COVID-19 has turned Alan’s world around

ALAN Williams is a dab hand when it comes to all sorts of bits and pieces, odds and ends – and anything else he can dig up. The shed out the back of his property is an Aladdin’s cave of, well, of every sort of bits and pieces and odds and ends...

Andrew Mole

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Something imperial about metric

We are still battling our way through the subtle complexities of spanners – in the old language and new – and fortunately STEVE ‘SHEDS’ BAIN has done all the hard legwork for you as he has compiled a collection to rival any backyard odd...

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It might not be raining here but it really is pouring hard

NSW artist and teacher Sue Raccanello had planned a series of dirty pouring workshops across northern Victoria but COVID-19 got here faster than anyone could have expected, putting her program on the backburner – indefinitely. She has multiple...

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Looking ahead, get set for deals of the century

TOD COLLINS has been a travel agent in Echuca-Moama for 44 years, sat on national boards for travel and tourism—and the Echuca-Moama Tourism board. He owned and operated the Paddlesteamer Canberra for 12 years as well as Echuca Sunshine Holiday...

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