Posted on 12/16/2017 7:02:48 PM PST by mdittmar
What did you do when you retired?
Getting close to the point that I may be able to retire.
Thinking about reselling,yard sales,goodwills,estates sales.
Always enjoyed junking,antiquing.
Gotta stay busy.
I eventually bought a wrist watch that told me what day of the week it is.
Fix, repair, nap, day trader, clean, improve (not much room for improvement of course :o), organize, learned a new language, hunt, fish, drive a few hundred miles to have lunch with friends and family, etcetera .......
Take care with etcetera as it will bite ya in the butt if yer not careful.
Have a happy retirement !
I’m helping this guy in Nigeria out.
Finally had time to answer his emails.
Kinda scary,been working since I was 16,always loved junking.
Tomorrow is Sunday ... the next day is Saturday.
I’m a long way off from retirement.
I would spend some time on figuring out how to get new members to join on Freerepublic.
Still the best algorithm chat, can actually be followed.
God Bless.
My retirement plan is to not retire. “They call me old Hugh but I doubt I’m 80.”
Is she worth it ?
dunno I aint there yet, you look forward to it, vacation time off but after 2 weeks off yer ready to go back to work
EVERY Day is Saturday, except Sunday.
I have to warn you that the market for that stuff has collapsed. Hoping to make some money while downsizing, I spent a lot of the last year going to auctions to see if it would be worth it to sell stuff instead of giving it to Salvation Army—and watching beautiful furniture and antiques going unsold, or sold for pennies on the dollar. Even eBay is not doing well with older and antique furniture, unless it is bona fide colonial era, or an outstanding maker from before WWI.
The only things doing well are small things and rugs. The "collectible" stuff many of our mothers amassed, like Hummel figurines, etc., is not selling, either. I've seen service for 12 of Depression glassware—water, wine and sherbet times 12—sell for $20. I've also seen sets like that go unsold. My auctioneer friends are tearing their hair out.
I got back into woodworking. I absolutely love creating different things from wood.
I paint houses by myself. Good $$$. Easy. Work as I feel like it.
I retired early and went into “semi-retirement”.
I cleaned up my tools and starting working on bikes and cars again. But I still work occasionally to pay the bills.
The big thing is.. I moved. To a more rural place where my bills were 1/4 what they used to be.
Now I cook all the time, make my own bread / butter / ice cream / everything and volunteer to many things - but not too much of one thing. Sometimes for the historical society, sometimes I teach classes at the annex.
Basically, I do whatever I want. But I haven’t even had an alarm clock in my bedroom, or clock for that matter, in 7 years.
Doing “work” for yourself, fam, friends and any orgs is totally tax free.
“Free at Last, Free at Last, good Lord Almighty, Free at Last.”
Just sayin’.
Retired for the second or third time five years ago. Wife and I bounced around Hawaii and had fun for a couple weeks.
I returned to phone calls asking where I could supply a heavy variety of petroleum in tank cars.
I do five or six cars each month, mostly tracing RR reports.
This takes about two hours each month.
I recommend finding something related to what you’ve been doing in your career, only without the stress.
It USED TO READ; Monday, Tuesday etc.
Not no mo.
I was pretty tired and worn out when I retired.
Pretty much just keep up with family and watch TV and check computer.
My wife died quite a few years ago and I had no desire to marry again. Wish I could spend more time with my Grandchildren but they live a thousand miles away.
One word that's not in the Bible... retirement. The only place where the concept comes in perhaps was for the Levite priests for which the age where they could be a priest was from 25 to 50. Otherwise, the message is to "occupy til I come."
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