This is a YouTube video titled "You Retire on Memories, Not Money | Bill Perkins" containing a monologue or talk recorded in June 2024. The speaker reflects on the value of investing in experiences and memories rather than just money for retirement, emphasizing the importance of time spent with loved ones over passive activities like watching TV.
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You don't retire on money, you retire on memories. Wow. That's your retirement, right? At that age, you know, depending on your health. And so I'm like, am I investing enough in experiences right now for my retirement? You know, just like Warren Buffett says, you know, to make money, the goal is to make more money early, early, early, early, early and often. Right. I say invest in memory dividends to get memory dividends, invest in experiences early and often. and those investments doesn't need to be a lot of money. No, they can be zero money. Zero money. So sometimes the decisions, you know, a lot of people like, oh, it's easy to say you have money or whatever. I'm like, what about the person who's sitting there and is like, I can watch TV or watch Jeopardy, or I can go walk with my daughter over to grandma's house and have a visit, or I can go teach how to ride a bike. That's an allocation of time decisions. It's like, wait a minute, Jeopardy reruns will be on to the day you die. Rides. your daughter won't be this age where she wants to hang out with you for long. Trust me, I have teenagers. You know what I mean? Trust me, I know.
