Retirement on a shoestring

Applied for Social Security benefits. It was supposed to take 15-30 mins if you have all your information available. I did. It took 2 hours, mainly due to dial-up slowness. I sure hope I did everything correctly. I can sure use the income.

Interesting side effect-- I had to begin going through my dusty clutter to get to old files. What do people do when they throw out all their old paperwork? Probably live in nice clean spaces.