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Why Your Retirement Savings Should Be On Lockdown

As a young writer, the author received this piece of advice:  “Listen to me,” she said. “The one thing you don’t want to do is treat your retirement accounts like an emergency fund. Once you put the money in there, pretend it doesn’t exist until you’re ready to stop working.” Read why it changed the way the author viewed and treated her 401(k) savings plan, from Tara Mastroeni, here.