Every day, about 8,000 baby-boomers celebrate their 65th birthday. That’s the age Americans have been retiring at for decades. But baby boomers, the largest American age group so far, are changing retirement just as they’ve affected the country’s institutions and social systems since they burst on the scene. Here are... Read more →
Looking for a last-minute Labor Day trip? Or, if you live near one of these cities, want to join in the celebrations at a top, fun spot? Here’s my list of America’s top 10 travel destinations for Labor Day 2013: Las Vegas New York City Chicago Orlando San Francisco Los... Read more →
What are your plans for Labor Day? Will you be visiting family or friends? Going to a great, new vacation spot? Hosting a barbecue? Just relaxing at home? Or, unfortunately, working? Here’s what’s going on around America this year: Travel About 34.1 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more... Read more →
Tom Sightings of Sightings Over Sixty is the host for this week’s Best of Boomer Blogs #322. The boomer blog roundup is a collection of like-minded blogs cooperating to share their best stories of interest to the Baby Boomer Generation. As Labor Day approaches and we, unfortunately, prepare to put... Read more →
Wilton Industries is recalling about 716,000 Chefmate 2-quart tea kettles in the United States and 1,400 in Canada. Steam can travel up the handle, or water can spill from the spout, posing a burn hazard to the consumer, said Wilton Industries and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. In addition,... Read more →
It’s good news for consumers that President Obama is holding discussions about stepping up enforcement of new rules to carry out Wall Street regulations. Obama urged regulators on Monday to act swiftly and finish writing rules designed to prevent a recurrence of the 2008 financial crisis that helped bring about... Read more →
After spending most of four days organizing two large boxes of printed photos from years ago, I realized that I haven’t been regularly printing out my digital photos recently. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? While spending days working on this set of photos, I did think... Read more →
In many homes, accumulating printed photos are a problem. They’re stuck here and there, while consumers think they’ll organize them later. My advice is to pick out a system and start organizing your photos today. Then, keep up with new photos as they come in. When I was organizing my... Read more →
Photo: IFCAR General Motors is recalling nearly 293,000 Chevrolet Cruze compact cars in the United States from model years 2011 and 2012 because the power-assisted brakes can fail. In Cruzes with six-speed automatic transmissions and 1.4 liter turbo engines, intermittent loss of brake could force drivers to apply extra pressure... Read more →
The Orlando Sentinel Thursday reported that a 7-month-old boy died after eating a laundry detergent packet in Kissimmee, Fla., last week The Sentinel said that an investigation into the incident is underway to confirm the cause of death. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a warning about these... Read more →