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Hello everyone. I retired June 1, at age 65+8 months. I know, that's a year ahead of 'full retirement age'. Fact is, I was tired. I'd been working full time for 44 years, that felt long enough. My wif...
My friend said it was the hardest thing she's ever done in her life. She moved from Illinois to one of the Carolinas when she retired. She had a pretty nice little rural homestead. I'd love to move bu...
I have been retired for two years. I am very blessed financially. Not to the level of having that beach house but we don’t have any worries for our needs. We use debit card for everyday purchase...
Retirement means different things to different people. This can range from opening up a new business to "if you're working at all, you're not retired". It can mean devoting yourself to unpaid service ...
Well, I made it exactly one year in retirement. Retired at 62, no financial or health worries, but basically got bored. The highlight of my first year, other than an Awsome one month trip to Japan and...
I retired on Monday and no longer have access to my calendar, which admittedly I wasn’t enamored with (Outlook & Teams). I’m looking for something to track travel plans, doctor appoint...
My net worth (total assets minus total liabilities) today is 6.3% higher than it was when I retired in 2019. This is in no small part thanks to stellar returns delivered by the financial markets since...
Im not realy looking for advice, know I'm a part of the problem....Just wonder if any else has dealt with these feelings? I really crave alone time, at home. The peace and quiet. I tried to be mentall...
I’ve been retired for three years now. I recently took a vacation and was talking to my mom about it. She’s been retired for 20 years and has gone on many trips. She was joking with me, sa...
So I retired over a year ago. At that time I declined a couple of job offers. The 5 years prior to retirement were a bit hectic due to 3 cross country moves, several different jobs, losing a parent, e...
I've been retired 3 years. Truthfully, I feel useless at times. Some of the most rewarding experiences I've had since retiring have been troubleshooting and fixing our dryer, and doing the transmissio...
So i m retiring soon, my wife is already retired. As far as pension, healthcare, social security, 401K, taxes…. I m fine with these important aspects of retirement What i want to look at now is...
I've only been retired for about 3 weeks but I left a job I loved because of a new CEO that I couldn't work with or for, and because my partner retired a year ago and has been enjoying it. I guess you...
Hey y’all. I started drawing retirement in October ‘23. Notice I didn’t say I retired in 2023. I was a landscaper. The only work I have continued is taking care of four properties. T...
Been retired close to a year now, and everything is going good health wise and financially, but just missing a little focus. As a engineer working for the government, it never was particularly benefic...
Wife and I struggling over where to retire within 3 years. Me M(64) she F (xx - to protect me from getting stink eye). Leave it to say, she is already retired as is not working and drawing SS. We are ...
I just caught up with an colleague, who retired this year at 68 years old. Community Nurse for the last 30 years and he had a great work ethic. Hence he had over 1000 hours sick leave when he finished...
Has anybody become a better housekeeper in retirement? We had someone come in twice a month to help with cleaning while we worked, but our cleaner retired before we did. I am not adverse to having som...
I retired about a year ago from this workplace, but recently, suddenly out of nowhere, my previous company is asking me if I am available for the next 6 months. I politely declined their initial offer...
I work from home in my partner is hybrid. We've always gotten along very well and this arrangement has not changed that. However when they do go into the office, though I miss having the company since...
Someone once told me that once you get to the age of 55, you have all the clothes you need for the rest of your life. For me, I think that's largely true. This year, I've bought one pair of shorts, on...
Hello! For the retirees out there...were there things you stocked up before you retired because you knew you would have limited funds? I remember my grandmother going to JCP during their big underwear...
I started journaling about the time I retired 8 months ago. (I use the iPhone app Journal.) it was just to make note of unusual things seen or experienced or things accomplished or other satisfying mo...
I fell into the assumption that my daughter would be taking care of all the payments. Well now I'm retired and on SS and a small supplemental income and daughter hasn't made payments in quite awhile. ...
Love my teaching colleagues beyond measure, but it is time. Just turned 63, hubby retired 3 years ago and financially we are set. We are closing on a new house at the end of June in a brand new locati...
Interested to know how you track spending v your budget. We are semi-retired w a variable income that we do not figure into our income so taking withdrawals down savings and not tapping SS until 70 pe...
I am a 70-year-old retired male, single with no children, currently living in the Midwest. I’ve spent most of my life living out West and am used to living single. I moved back to my hometown in...
Today, at age 64, I have been retired for three years after a four-decade career in both the business world ... Read more...
It's a beautiful Monday morning just a little over 4 years since I involuntarily retired. (That turned out to be a good thing). I often reflect, on these weekday mornings, on how incredible it is to h...
In a new survey asking retirees what surprised them about being retired, the big winner – for 43 percent – was how much they’re enjoying it. The rest of the survey indicates that the...
You may feel like a mortgage prisoner, but your options may be more doable than you think....
This is my first Saturday of being retired. I finished my last work project on Wednesday and it's taken me until today to start to feel like maybe it's true. I started to know I needed to retire about...
I retired a couple years ago and have found my groove and hobbies. If anything, I’d say I feel busier than I ever imagined I would be. Unfortunately I feel I have a void that I haven’t fou...
We are so lucky to have a close group of friends for more than 50 years. Now that we are retired, we have been traveling together. Each trip we take, one guy becomes increasingly obnoxious and rude. H...
Meet the schemers and savers obsessed with ending their careers as early as possible....
I decided to do some consulting for my former employer at their request, with guard rails that it be half-time, six months duration, and that it’d be W2 so I don’t have to form an LLC and ...
I've been retired for a good number of years. When I first retired I was nervous about sitting around twiddling my thumbs and doing nothing. So I decided to get back to hobbies I had or get into new h...
I retired at the end of August, after all bonuses and retention incentives had paid out. Because it had been a good year, I knew I was likely to get a hit with IRMAA, both with Medicare B and D. Becau...
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I get tons of ads for remote work but many are just influencers trying to make a buck. I’m a retired teacher, so I could tutor and am also interested in doing research. Does anyone do part time ...
So, two weeks ago retired after working for 50 years in the building and construction industry. I’ve basically been just decompressing since then, even though I still can’t sleep in. I sti...
I retired last year at 60. My wife plans on retiring next April at 60 as well. We’ve done ok in life relatively speaking. We will be able to buy a retirement home and live near our kids fairly c...
Let's share slice of life for this particular day. What do you have going on? What do you plan to do? If the answer is "nothing", then what does nothing look like for you? If you happen to be really b...
Retirement is great but not exactly what I had envisioned. I'm not complaining! I pay all my monthly bills with automatic withdrawals from my brokerage account. I have more than enough money for every...
To avoid lying awake at night once you’re retired, consider having these strategies in place before you take the plunge....
It’s inevitable that one spouse or partner will live alone at some point in their life; plan ahead to make sure the survivor will be OK financially....
I'm 62, and will be "retired" fully within the year (10 more months). My hubby is 53 and will likely retire in a couple years. What bothers both of us is that we feel the word 'retirement' has such a ...
Pets can be expensive in retirement, not retired yet, 8 more months. We have have 4 pets 2 dogs and two cats. One cat is diabetic so we have the insulin cost every 3 months. We have pet insurance on b...
In the last year I left my full time job and began working part time 20 hours/week. I consider myself semi- retired. But since my spouse is still working full time, I've taken on almost all the househ...
I just ended a very high stress job as a clinical supervisor in a rather wild and dysfunctional community mental health setting. After 17 years working in the front lines of trauma, 15 years in educat...