{"id":552138,"date":"2026-01-29T18:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/552138\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T18:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:30:18","slug":"10-things-to-know-about-early-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/552138\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things To Know About Early Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMany people expect expenses to drop,\u201d warned Julien Brault, founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moosemoney.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MooseMoney<\/a>, \u201cbut early retirees often travel more, eat out more and spend more on hobbies.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Essentially, all the additional free time of an early retirement can lead to a gradual increase to daily spending. <\/p>\n<p>Brault noted that \u201cleaving work early usually means losing employer health coverage,\u201d and health spending can spiral as a result. To protect against excess spending, practice living on your early retirement budget before it actually begins in order to help develop frugal habits. Also, be sure to research insurance costs long before you retire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMany people expect expenses to drop,\u201d warned Julien Brault, founder of MooseMoney, \u201cbut early retirees often travel more,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":552139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,20478,8726,255,615,700,708,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-552138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-early-retirement","10":"tag-gobankingrates","11":"tag-personal-finance","12":"tag-planning","13":"tag-retirement","14":"tag-retirement-planning","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115979814378254193","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}