BS: When I retire

Subject: BS: When I retire
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 09 Aug 12 - 05:46 PM

I have something on my computer that says 10+ months...I won't do it unless I have to because I really need more years in the system..but at least I have some..

But here is what I would do..

1. Travel all over the place
2. Go to lots of music festivals.
3. Volunteer work in orphanages, or children's hospital
4. Continue to work on-call for state so I can add to retirement
5. Looking for absolutely free housing..in exchange for housework, work in parks or whatever.
6. Not work until after I have had lunch every day and work into the evening if possible.
7. Photograph old graveyards for find a grave.
8. Visit relatives I haven't seen in years.
9. Visit everyone on mudcat who wants me to
10. Do genealogy of my ancestors' town in Iowa..Clermont..I have a big collection of family trees on all the Irish there
11. Well..that is enough for now..maybe read some library books..

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Deckman
Date: 09 Aug 12 - 05:51 PM

Hmmmm ... ever thought about writing some songs? bad bad bob

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Elmore
Date: 09 Aug 12 - 07:54 PM

Yeah, cut that in half.

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Aug 12 - 08:29 PM

You don't have to look for things to do. Believe, they'll find you!

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Midchuck
Date: 09 Aug 12 - 09:04 PM

I'm still figuring out retirement.

I like 1, 2, 4 (deleting "for State"), and 9. I would exactly reverse 6.

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Janie
Date: 09 Aug 12 - 09:46 PM

Hard to imagine doing if I don't want to live on catfood and under a bridge, but as I count down toward age 66 I mostly focus on not ending up out of work before then. I've been luckier than many these past several years - many job changes as companies went down the tubes, but so far have managed to jump to another boat in the nick of time. Plan on working full + time as long as someone will have me and I don't completely wear out. No joy in that but much acceptance.

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Amos
Date: 10 Aug 12 - 01:24 AM

I am about to. One month more. I have a similar list with a bunch of other projects on it. The prospect of not having to drive to an office every morning makes me a little nervous, just because it has been many years since I defined my own activities all the time. What if I turn out to be a ne'er-do-well lazy bum? Gahhh! :D I am starting my visits and other deferred pleasures shortly thereafter. Fingers crossed for luck and new and different adventures.


A

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 10 Aug 12 - 01:35 AM

I will definitely be a lazy bum..already am...I want to sit on a porch and rock for a very long time. I never want to cook, garden, clean,iron, file, scrub. I want to procrastinate. I want to sleep in every day and never wear pantyhose..well I don't have to now..I could be persuaded to rock babies on my porch but that is it.

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 10 Aug 12 - 05:03 AM

Phew Guest mg! You make me feel very tired just reading your list! My advice to you (I've been retired for donkey's years) is:- Don't forget to do absolutely nothing sometimes. It will be a real luxury to be able to just sit and think (or even just sit!)

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 10 Aug 12 - 08:00 AM

I AM retired but I still work 4 days each week!

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Gurney
Date: 10 Aug 12 - 08:29 PM

I find it too easy to do nothing but read and do crosswords and watch television. Not that there's much on. But your muscles soften VERY quickly, which doesn't help your sleeping position, which makes you tired....which makes you lazy.

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Aug 12 - 08:36 PM

I've been retired for several years now and what I have found is that...

...retirement is hard work... Real hard...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 11 Aug 12 - 11:56 AM

I'd wanted to hold out another three years until I was 66, but necessity (and the fact I can collect as much as my job of the past 4 years paid me -- without the aggro or worrying about having my hours cut even more) made me sign up in June. I retired to be full-time caregiver for Tom (Curmudgeon), but should be able at some point to scare up some proofreading/copyediting work or maybe part-time administrative assistant in a real estate office (but only if it's closeby) or maybe eBay can help me bring in enough supplemental cash to live on.

Plenty of projects planned, including reclaiming the yard which has reverted to jungle in the past 8 years. Finishing some of the writing projects and getting them published, maybe starting a blog if I can figure out how to monetize it. Doing some needlepoint which I haven't had time for in years. Not only repairing a bunch of jewelry, but actually creating more necklaces and earrings. Learning to play mountain dulcimer and relearning guitar (with Tom teaching me the Anglo-Saxon crash thud method). Practicing my slate cutting and maybe turning that into a paying business. Oh, and finishing the t-shirt quilt I started a few years ago and then Tom's vocal cord cancer (and my work schedule) got in the way.

I find I'm doing more housework now than I've ever done in my LIFE...but nothing really shows as it's just the kind (the usual kind) that has to be done again, and again, and again. Unfortunately, all the household projects and house fix-ups seem to require money...and we just don't have any. Or else they require the kind of agility and physical strength I no longer have (and Tom's lacking those, too, plus he can't see well enough to do any of the things he used to).

I feel guilty if I take a day off, as I did this past week to recover from the effects of wasp sting, the nasty allergic reaction to antibiotic and then the nasty side-effects of prednisone. It worked, but I still feel guilty that I accomplished nothing except finishing a book.

I'll get the hang of retirement some day...meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out how I ever had the time to work. It's amazing I had time for anything else...like a life.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 11 Aug 12 - 01:43 PM

Sorry to hear about the nasty wasp sting, Linn. I reckon many newly-retired have these guilt feelings if they spend some time just resting. The thing is, your body benefits no end from rest and relaxation. Your planned projects sound super. We don't have much money either, but there are things which don't cost a lot, such as your patchwork. I was doing patchwork today in the Vicar's garden. (a craft open day where we ladies took anything along to make or paint etc and we had soup and a roll at half time) Housework isn't that important. I've learned to do the minimum for 'fairly clean and tidy'. Good luck with your retirement! Eliza x

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 12 Aug 12 - 07:50 AM

The other thing that needs to take a higher priority than I've been able to give it recently are my 30+ 3-inch 3-ring binder scrapbooks of (mostly) our musical history of the past 32 years, which, in a lot of ways, is also a history of the weekly Press Room trad session (and the younger sea music singaround and the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival plus a lot of clippings, etc. about our friends). They are mostly chronological accumulations of newspaper clippings, gig posters, Bob Nilson drawings, Press Room and Stone Church (when I find them...) schedules, etcet etcet. About five or eight years ago I started collating photographs with the rest of the stuff, but then I got sidetracked with scrambling for enough money to keep body and soul together and dealing with Tom's health issues.

And we're not enough mentioning all of the tapes I've made over the years of Tom, the sessions, and stuff, most of which are at least catalogued.

The scrapbook could be a full time job in itself.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 12 Aug 12 - 10:03 AM

I think alcohol may figure in the plan...

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 12 Aug 12 - 03:22 PM

As someone who has retired at least three times, I can only say that it can be fun. It can be boring. It's up to you.

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Aug 12 - 05:00 PM

At 73, and 'technically' retired for 10 years, I find that my plans to supplement my SS by doing woodturning are slowly being supplanted by cutting up limbs brought down by storms.... and generally fighting entropy on several other fronts.

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 12 Aug 12 - 05:07 PM

Yeah, entropy, Bill. Here, too. And I discovered from the first season of "The Big Bang Theory" that our house is a "swirling vortex of entropy"...

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Aug 12 - 07:49 PM

LOL... my favorite law of nature:

"Entropy Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out"

   In fact, entropy will you if you DO watch out!

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Aug 12 - 11:05 PM

I'd go with Michelins.....................


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Amos
Date: 12 Aug 12 - 11:31 PM

Entropy can be countered by creativity; put out the sparks and watch the system's energy increase and become orderly!

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 13 Aug 12 - 03:06 AM

If you had two cats, Enthalpy (male) and Entropy (female) then Entropy would at best stay constant but tend to increase.

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Aug 12 - 08:30 AM

If you're looking more for performance in retiring, Bridgestone would be better.....................


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 13 Aug 12 - 01:13 PM

One thing I won't do is join the Red Hat Society...but more power to them that does. mg

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Aug 12 - 03:59 PM

I used to belong to the Red Head Society.... but that was then.

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: JennieG
Date: 13 Aug 12 - 05:56 PM

mg, it might be possible to achieve #5! Earlier this year we joined a house sitting web site, and in October when we head off on our holiday to Canada we will be having a couple sit for us. In return for looking after our house, garden and cats they get accommodation. Things like sharing payment of utility bills are mutually worked out. Our couple are Kiwis who lost their home in the Christchurch earthquake and are travelling in Oz while re-building is sorted out. When we talked on skype the other night they said they are looking forward to spending time here, our cats will be much happier in their own home than in a boarding cattery, and the garden won't get overgrown while we are away.

So now we are retired we can travel, knowing our house and pets are being looked after......until either our health or money runs out!

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Bobert
Date: 13 Aug 12 - 08:34 PM

Lemme tell ya'll what retirement is really like...

Today is just an average retirement day:

8:00- drive to Lowes for 8 fluorescent bulbs, 4 electrical lugs and a roll of hardware cloth

9:00- fix service wire to Spartan trailer (studio)

10:00- fertilize and water all the vegetables

11:00- dig out old de-humidifier and put in trailer, hook up hose, route to outside

12:00- lunch and nap

1:00- finish wiring the light and fans in P-Vine's garden house

4:00- dip in pool to cool down and 2nd nap (tired)

5:00- tended fire on my tractor for the trees I have been cleaning up from last month's storm and mover 16 railroad ties to veggie garden for raised beds

6:00- punched the clock

Lets see??? 8:00 - 6:00 minus 1.5 hours for lunch and naps = 8.5 hours of hard work...

Don't retire!!!

B;~(

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Acorn4
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 06:06 AM

Doesn't the word "retirement" have a lovely ring to it?

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 10:44 AM

I took early retirement in 2004. Had to on health grounds. Very distressing at the time, but as the years have passed, turned out to be the best deal for me. I have time to do my Music & it's my own time; I'm not at the beck & call of some pushy publisher or agent. I get to spend a lot of time with my wife...we don't 'get under each other's feet', like me, she has her hobbies to pursue. First thing I did when I retired was cut up my credit cards & close all the accounts. As soon as I could, I paid off the mortgage...don't owe anyone a brass farthing. Retirement works well as long as the bills get paid. There is a beautiful Greek word: 'Eleftheria'...literally translates as:'Freedom' (the actual meaning is more complex, but 'freedom' serves my purpose well enough), that's what retirement means to Ann & myself.
                                  Nigel & Ann Paterson.

Subject: RE: BS: When I retire
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 11:11 AM

"Doesn't the word 'retirement' have a lovely ring to it?"

Used to...

B;~(