{"id":211682,"date":"2025-04-28T23:47:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T23:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/investing\/retirement-investing-today-merry-christmas\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T23:47:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T23:47:35","slug":"retirement-investing-today-merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=211682","title":{"rendered":"Retirement Investing Today: Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-5448982360920384290\" itemprop=\"description articleBody\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\nThe organisation I up until recently worked for closes its year at the end of December.\u00a0 With shutdowns between Christmas and New Year it meant that the run in to the Christmas bank holidays were always absolutely manic.\u00a0 It meant long hours and little time to soak up the Christmas spirit until the physical bank holidays were upon us.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas 2018 is my first FIRE Christmas and things have changed somewhat.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retirementinvestingtoday.com\/2018\/12\/moving-to-cyprus-from-uk-part-1.html\">We\u2019re already reasonably settled in the Med<\/a>\u00a0with our rental home for the next 6-12 months.\u00a0 All our possessions have now arrived so there was only one thing for it.\u00a0 We put up the Christmas tree and spent a couple of hours decorating it.\u00a0 Then I felt inspired&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In years gone past we\u2019ve always bought a Christmas Cake and \/ or Christmas Pudding from the supermarket.\u00a0 Not so this year.\u00a0 I attempted to make a Christmas fruit cake from scratch.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg_A4L-ioIhp3Kplp0b2hTbqZmxzQc4YdgNfixR2QYCH_OHFhRkSsWCgl_VnL2hsGqAlzZQtD3hYOUUiEIJVrGXolzEgt9pznC4OGtIfTcRD4pXPw1VrttA4Tw0Jsx2hkSJChVAaziZzBPp\/s1600\/181223-1.png\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"One dodgy looking fruit cake\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg_A4L-ioIhp3Kplp0b2hTbqZmxzQc4YdgNfixR2QYCH_OHFhRkSsWCgl_VnL2hsGqAlzZQtD3hYOUUiEIJVrGXolzEgt9pznC4OGtIfTcRD4pXPw1VrttA4Tw0Jsx2hkSJChVAaziZzBPp\/s320\/181223-1.png\" title=\"One dodgy looking fruit cake\" width=\"320\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n<i>Click to enlarge, One dodgy looking fruit cake<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\n<a name=\"more\"\/>Looks decidedly average but the next day I cut it open and it revealed this.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiRdErZzA4Oapg0rK92P6k4zfQwiXaQqjq5xN5dcnt7bZeDGVQCgKGnYmeiGY55lBkZURZekN9dgyIFqhAjHIwi40ogGyEtbSFH_wGCQvg47l0XI4Nfv-7nk8fFdLNwgW1P4BVlAWWFpHVI\/s1600\/181223-2.png\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tastes absolutely fantastic\" border=\"0\" height=\"175\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiRdErZzA4Oapg0rK92P6k4zfQwiXaQqjq5xN5dcnt7bZeDGVQCgKGnYmeiGY55lBkZURZekN9dgyIFqhAjHIwi40ogGyEtbSFH_wGCQvg47l0XI4Nfv-7nk8fFdLNwgW1P4BVlAWWFpHVI\/s320\/181223-2.png\" title=\"Tastes absolutely fantastic\" width=\"320\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n<i>Click to enlarge, Tastes absolutely fantastic<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\nI get the feeling that 2019 is going to be very different to 2018&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I\u2019d just like to take this opportunity to wish all readers a fantastic Christmas plus if I don\u2019t post before a very prosperous and happy New Year!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organisation I up until recently worked for closes its year at the end of December.\u00a0 With shutdowns between Christmas and New Year it meant that the run in to the Christmas bank holidays were always absolutely manic.\u00a0 It meant long hours and little time to soak up the Christmas spirit until the physical bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[336,10906,362,11077,1513],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-211682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investing","tag-christmas","tag-investing","tag-merry","tag-retirement","tag-today"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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