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Site title: Design Services LTD – Rita Wilkins, The Downsizing Designer, is a nationally recognized interior design and lifestyle design expert. Through her best-selling book, speaking engagments, and design insight, Rita has changed the lives of thousands of people throughout the United States.

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If you are an empty nester, or you will soon become one, there is a question about empty nest downsizing that no one really wants to ask.

Your last child may have moved out. The graduation photos are framed. Their bedroom door is closed, not because they are sleeping late, but because no one lives there anymore.

So, who are you keeping that room for?

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The best time to begin your next chapter may be before you think you’re ready to start living now retirement.

For many years, we’ve been taught to follow a familiar formula:

Today, focus on building your earnings and skills, because steady effort today shapes your future. By preparing for the day you retire, you can start living now retirement with intenti...


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Sometimes it takes another person—and a new perspective—to help us imagine what’s possible.

One of the greatest compliments my sons ever gave me wasn’t really intended as a compliment.

As a single mother raising two teenage boys, whenever we walked into a restaurant or someone’s home, they would tease me and say: “Our mom can see through walls.”


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Should you downsize before retirement, or could waiting be the wiser decision?

After discussing the benefits of downsizing before retirement, you may assume that I believe everyone should move sooner rather than later.

I do not.

In fact, I become uncomfortable whenever someone says that every empty nester or retiree should downsize. Really, every...


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Should you downsize before retirement or wait until after you retire?

It is one of the questions I hear almost every week.

Recently, someone asked me, “Rita, if you were me, would you move now or wait until after retirement?

I understand why so ...


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