{"id":847185,"date":"2026-09-14T06:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847185\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T06:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:40:08","slug":"wsj-readers-share-the-life-lessons-learned-from-saving-for-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847185\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ Readers Share the Life Lessons Learned From Saving for Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1qg6i2u e1hwu21o0\">A Wall Street Journal article earlier this week described a <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/personal-finance\/retirement\/young-people-are-obsessed-with-this-simple-retirement-savings-formula-d54f80b6?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new retirement formula<\/a> that younger people are using to game out when they have enough savings to start coasting.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1qg6i2u e1hwu21o0\">The intense focus on building a nest egg is nothing new for many retirees. We asked a few of them to share the lessons they learned from saving and juggling money priorities, and the surprises they encountered along the way. Here is a selection of their stories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-16aepit e1jdulti0\">Copyright \u00a92026 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Wall Street Journal article earlier this week described a new retirement formula that younger people are using&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,161350,161232,161233,160855,793,161352,358398,358399,147,530,358396,20724,20716,732,20719,358397,20720],"class_list":["post-847185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ce-exclusion-filter","tag-content-types","tag-factiva-filters","tag-gcapi","tag-general-news","tag-iwe-filter","tag-linkendrnrealtime-linkedarticle-dnco20260914000500","tag-linki1-wp-wsj-0003879618","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-personaljournal","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-retirement-planning","tag-synd","tag-tables","tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}