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Forbes
10 hours ago
- Lifestyle
- Forbes
4 Ways To Downsize After Retirement
Reading, PA - March 26: Jessica Tait, general manager of U-Haul, 1647 N. Fifth Street, Reading, Pa., ... More disinfects the handles and doors of a returned U-Haul truck to help fight the spread of the coronavirus Thursday, March 26, 2020.(Photo by Bill Uhrich/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images) Most of our life is spent accumulating material items. We may be collectors, or it may be that after time we have ended up with possessions passed down to us. Regardless, once we have lived in a house for decades stuff just adds up. After people retire, they often think about downsizing—moving to a smaller place. This involves disposing, selling, or donating household items. Since accumulation can be a burden, engaging in downsizing requires us to do the work so that others (often adult children) don't have to do it later. Another way to view downsizing is to edit or curate. This is an intentional practice of deciding what to keep and what to let go of. In other words, a cleaning of our internal inventory, which can include curating our relationships, practices and habits, activities and involvement, and beliefs. This process can be as challenging as letting go of physical items because our internal inventory is embedded into our lives. While downsizing your possessions is important, these are four areas to consider downsizing after retirement. Relationships Long-term relationships (of all types) can be tremendously fulfilling and true gifts (as I've written before, connection is protection). However, many people keep up relationships due to inertia rather than conscious choice. One of the great gifts of getting older is discernment. We can decide our level of engagement and with whom we associate. In my coaching practice, I advocate how important it is to make intentional choices and decisions—particularly about how you spend your time and with whom. Think about each of the relationships you have with your family and friends. Do you feel as though the relationship adds something positive to your life? Do you feel as though it's more or less an even give and take? If not, then it may be time to scale back or let the relationship go. Practices And Habits And with age comes some health challenges. Many people by 65 have had knees and hips replaced and some have even had shoulder replacements. Health issues can change your physical activity, and I know from personal experience. While I used to play tennis and jog, I've had my ACL in both knees repaired. As a result, I do a lot of walking and hiking, biking, and yoga. Pickleball makes me nervous. I have known several people younger than me who had serious injuries from playing pickleball. Regardless of our issues, we must be careful about mixing alcohol with medications. One study found adults aged 50-59 to be the largest age group in opioid treatment programs. Activities And Involvement Since we are no longer climbing the ladder and adding to our resumes, this may be the time to curate how we spend our time and energy. We may want to learn some new activities such as chess or bridge which can be a social activity with others. We might also want to change our involvement with the local community or our faith community. In retirement workshops, I've had participants say, 'I am burned out from volunteering,' and I understand that feeling. This may be the time to get involved in some different groups or causes where you would be energized by meeting some new people and contributing in new ways. Maybe you want to learn some new skills and take some classes. Since I was a bad church organist in my past life (high school), I started taking piano lessons after I left my full-time professorship. I know I have benefited from these lessons in several ways. I have taken several art classes at our local art center. We still only have 24 hours in a day. You will likely need to downsize other activities to make time for new activities and involvement. Limiting Beliefs Our society rewards productivity. The focus is on doing rather than on our being. We are human beings buttrained to be human doings. It is hard to break out of this mindset without intentional work. When the ego gets involved, it is hard to let go of identifying ourselves by what we do. After all, what's the first question we often ask others when we first meet them? 'What do you do?' This becomes an even harder question after we have left our careers. If we answer, 'I am retired,' the conversation stops. It can be a conversation killer. I have started to ask new people, 'What are you interested or involved in?' This is a conversation starter. Almost everyone can provide a response that leads to a conversation. Becca Levy, in her book 'Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long & Well You Live,' concluded 'Age beliefs, it turns out, can steal or add nearly eight years to your life.' But our society makes it easier to have negative and limiting beliefs about getting older such as: 'I don't deserve to focus on myself.' 'At my age, it's too late to find love.' 'I can't learn new things at my age.' Now is the time to edit these negative thoughts out of your life. We deserve to focus on our self to maintain our mental and physical health. It is not too late to find love. One of my professional mentors lost his wife in her 70s. But he found love again, married at 88, and lived to be 93. And if you have a strong desire to learn new things, you can do it. Ashton Applewhite, author of 'This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism,' believes we are all ageist and it is time to edit these negative beliefs out of our lives. 'We olders can be the most ageist of all because we have had a lifetime of hearing those messages and internalizing them, where they become part of our identity.' However, even if you've held limiting beliefs all your life, it's never too late to let them go. Take Action It may be time to think about a smaller place to live and decide what to do with some of your possessions. But is also might be time to remove "weeds" that threaten to harm your garden. Ask yourself:
Yahoo
a day ago
- Yahoo
Here are the 5 biggest US cities where the most Oklahomans are moving, according to U-Haul
A new analysis from U-Haul found the five biggest US cities where the most Oklahomans are moving. The moving truck rental company looked at its one-way customer transactions between January and July 2025, for moving containers bound for the 35 metro areas with populations greater than 2 million. It then determined the most common state and metro-area origins for those trucks. Folks from Oklahoma and the OKC metro area were in the top lists for five US cities. Here's what we know. 5 biggest US cities Oklahomans moved to in 2025 As it turns out, Oklahomans that are moving to large cities are most commonly staying in the region. Four out of the five cities for which Oklahoma or Oklahoma City was a top origin area were in Texas, while the fifth is the bi-state metropolitan area of Kansas City, which straddles Missouri and Kansas. Here's which big metropolitan areas Oklahomans were moving so far in 2025: Austin Oklahoma was the sixth-most common origin state, excluding Texas, for people moving to Austin. Dallas Oklahoma was the top most common origin state, excluding Texas, for people moving to Dallas. Oklahoma City was the top most common origin metro area, outside of Texas, for people moving to Dallas. Houston Oklahoma was the fifth-most common origin state, excluding Texas, for people moving to Houston. Oklahoma City was the fifth-most common origin metro area, outside of Texas, for people moving to Houston. Kansas City Oklahoma was the third-most common origin state, excluding Missouri and Kansas, for people moving to Kansas City. San Antonio Oklahoma was the eighth-most common origin state, excluding Texas, for people moving to San Antonio. This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: U-Haul: The 5 biggest US cities Oklahomans are moving to in 2025 Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Automotive
- Yahoo
U-Haul Closes Repair Shop in San Bernardino After 54 Years
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., July 23, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U-Haul® repair shop at 891 S. Arrowhead Ave. has closed after servicing regional moving equipment since 1971. Repair operations and routine maintenance at the facility ceased in late June. As a result of the repair shop closing, 37 Team Members were let go. U-Haul will maintain ownership of its S. Arrowhead property, which houses the U-Haul Company of San Bernardino regional offices. The repair shop will be repurposed as U-Box® of San Bernardino, a 30,000-square-foot warehouse that can store up to 2,500 of the Company's popular portable moving containers. U-Haul rental equipment in the region will soon be serviced at 1235 E. Baseline St. in San Bernardino, site of a new repair shop that is set to begin operations on July 28. Local U-Haul Companies are always exploring opportunities for growth as they pursue means to better serve the needs of customers, but sometimes find it necessary to close or relocate stores, shops, offices and services. Reasons for closures can include: long-term strategic plans; safety and security concerns; physical site conditions and limitations; shifts in demographics; availability of local Team Members; trends in migration; expansion of the U-Haul neighborhood dealer network; proximity to other new or existing Company locations; and external factors. About U-HAUL Celebrating our 80th anniversary in 2025, U-Haul is the No. 1 choice of do-it-yourself movers with more than 24,000 rental locations across all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces. The U-Haul app makes it easy for customers to use U-Haul Truck Share 24/7 to access trucks anytime through the self-dispatch and -return options on their smartphones with our patented Live Verify technology. Our customers' patronage has enabled the U-Haul fleet to grow to 193,900 trucks, 138,200 trailers and 40,300 towing devices. U-Haul is the third largest self-storage operator in North America and offers 1,060,000 rentable storage units and 92.0 million square feet of self-storage space at owned and managed facilities. U-Haul is the top retailer of propane in the U.S. and the largest installer of permanent trailer hitches in the automotive aftermarket industry. Get the U-Haul app from the App Store or Google Play. View source version on Contacts Sydney EllisJeff LockridgeE-mail: publicrelations@ Phone: 602-263-6981Website: Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Portland-area residents flock from Washington, California
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Nearly half of all residential moves in the U.S. happen during the summer, between Memorial Day and Labor Day, according to U-Haul's report on midyear migration trends. New data shows that for the first time since the pandemic, major U.S. cities could be starting to grow again. Most of the U-Haul customers arriving in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro metro area so far in 2025 have come from Washington, with movers from California coming in second place, followed by Arizona. Idahoans and Texans came in fourth and fifth place. Portland settles lawsuit after Irving Park light pole falls on boy, babysitter The other most common origin states in order were Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Florida and Montana. New Portland-area residents from within the state are coming most frequently from Salem, Eugene, Bend, Medford and Corvallis, according to the report. Portlanders who left Oregon moved most frequently to Seattle, followed by San Francisco and Los Angeles. Phoenix and Spokane, Wash., were fourth and fifth-place destinations. As previously reported by KOIN, Portland's population is slowly beginning to increase according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. Vancouver, Wash., which is considered part of the Portland Metro, has grown consistently in recent years. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
21-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
When people move out of Tennessee, this is where they're headed, survey shows
A new analysis found the cities where Tennesseans most frequently move when they're leaving the state and the data shows many relocators stick to the region. U-Haul released its data on the metropolitan areas to which people in the United States are moving the most in 2025. To find this data, U-Haul recorded all one-way U-Haul rentals and the cities to which these rentals were primarily going. As a result, the study identified the most common cities for people to relocate to in the first half of 2025. For the 35 cities listed, Tennessee was listed as a top origin state in over a dozen of them. While Tennessee's population has been on the rise for the past few years, these numbers slowed in 2024 and are expected to continue this trend in 2025. Here are the cities Tennesseans are leaving for. Where are Tennessee residents moving to? In U-Haul's analysis, it listed the top states and metropolitan areas from which each city was receiving new residents. Tennessee ranks among the top 10 states where new residents are moving from, as evidenced by 16 urban areas that see more people relocating to them from Tennessee than from other states. Of these 16 cities, nine are located in the south, with the rest being in the Midwest. Tennessee was listed as a top 5 origin state for eight cities and a top 10 state for 16. Cities where Tennessee is in the top five states supplying new residents: Atlanta, Georgia: Tennessee is the No. 4 state. Cincinnati, Ohio: Tennessee is the No. 4 state. Miami, Florida: Tennessee is the No. 4 state. Orlando, Florida: Tennessee is the No. 4 state. St. Louis, Missouri: Tennessee is the No. 4 state. Tampa, Florida: Tennessee is the No. 4 state. Charlotte, North Carolina: Tennessee is the No. 5 state. Indianapolis, Indiana: Tennessee is the No. 5 state. Cities where Tennessee is in the top 10 states supplying new residents: Detroit, Michigan: Tennessee is the No. 6 state. Chicago, Illinois: Tennessee is the No. 8 state. Houston, Texas: Tennessee is the No. 8 state. Austin, Texas: Tennessee is the No. 9 state. Kansas City, Missouri: Tennessee is the No. 9 state. Columbus, Ohio: Tennessee is the No. 10 state. Dallas, Texas: Tennessee is the No. 10 state. San Antonio, Texas: Tennessee is the No. 10 state. Where are new Nashville residents coming from? U-Haul reported that in the first half of 2025, most of Nashville's new residents have been coming from other southern states, with a few exceptions. The top states from which new Nashville residents are coming, outside of Tennessee, are: Florida, Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, California, Illinois and Indiana. The most prominent metros for new Nashville residents to move from are Atlanta, Georgia; Dallas, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles, California; and Miami, Florida. Within Tennessee, most new residents are coming from Knoxville, Memphis, Clarksville, Chattanooga and Cookeville. Is Tennessee's population growing? In short, Tennessee's population has been increasing steadily over the past few years, according to data from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Since 2020, there have been 325,319 more people who have moved into the state than out of it. Between July 1, 2023, and July 1, 2024, 79,446 more people were living in Tennessee than the previous year, marking the smallest population increase since 2022. Here are the recorded population increases by the year: 2020-2021: 37,836 people 2021-2022: 96,477 people 2022-2023: 86,087 people 2023-2024: 79,446 people A 2024 report from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, shows that Tennessee is projected to continue on its upward population growth over the next 45 years. Currently, Tennessee is in the midst of the largest projected decade of development through the year 2070. Between 2020 and 2030, the state's population is expected to increase by 602,917, reaching a total population of 7,513,757 by the end of 2030. Jordan Green covers trending news for The Commercial Appeal. She can be reached at This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Where Tennesseans move when they leave the state for others in US Solve the daily Crossword
