What do you enjoy/hate about retirement

seven-day-weekend

>>seven day week-end best of all<<
Well, thanks for the compliment!

>>He can afford to retire a bit earlier than some people, but he's just going on and on and on ...<<
He might do well to remember that nobody's 'famous last words' have ever been 'I wish I'd spent more time at work',

seven-day-weekend

Hi there!

My husband took early retirement due to health reasons in 2004 when he was 55 and I was 54. We also moved to to a tiny village in the mountains in Spain at the same time.

I LOVE

having no deadlines
having holidays in term time (my husband was a teacher)
staying up late if I want to
staying in bed if I want to
watching the world go by
seeing my husband take up the painting and other art work that he never had time for before
having friends to stay
Not having to have 'business' clothes
simplifying my life : we no longer have a microwave, a hairdryer or an iron!

I HATE

Nothing!

I'm looking forward to getting my State Pension in 2010, and then when we have this extra amount of money, we'll downsize our Spanish assets, release some capital and then we'd like to travel a bit more. We still have our house in the UK, so we will have the choice to base ourselves in either country whenever we like (We can't afford to live in the UK at the moment).

Great!

pennineman

Another big plus of retirement (maybe) is being able to shred all of the paper I've accumulated over the years as a teacher. Now I don't need it.

Trouble is there're walls full of the stuff and at the rate I'm going it's going to take several lifetimes I think.

. . . and then I'll find I've shredded the one piece of paper I really should have kept . . .

djohn2002uk

Ooooh pennineman........1000 posts............congrats! :T

pennineman

djohn2002uk wrote:

Ooooh pennineman........1000 posts............congrats! :T

Big thanks djohn2002uk :T - don't think anyone else noticed . . .sob. :sad:

djohn2002uk

No probs, but 17 more posts in 22 hrs, and 8 of those being asleep, you must have too much time on your hands....:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

kenshaz

seven-day-weekend wrote:

Hi there!

My husband took early retirement due to health reasons in 2004 when he was 55 and I was 54. We also moved to to a tiny village in the mountains in Spain at the same time.

I LOVE

having no deadlines
having holidays in term time (my husband was a teacher)
staying up late if I want to
staying in bed if I want to
watching the world go by
seeing my husband take up the painting and other art work that he never had time for before
having friends to stay
Not having to have 'business' clothes
simplifying my life : we no longer have a microwave, a hairdryer or an iron!

I HATE

Nothing!

I'm looking forward to getting my State Pension in 2010, and then when we have this extra amount of money, we'll downsize our Spanish assets, release some capital and then we'd like to travel a bit more. We still have our house in the UK, so we will have the choice to base ourselves in either country whenever we like (We can't afford to live in the UK at the moment).

Great!

Wonderful,but do not wish your life away,who cares about the state pension,

kenshaz

Why am I keeping my fire service uniform,fancy dress parties or am I sad,please do not answer that.

al_yrpal

I love the summer, but hate the winter, thats because I love to be outdoors, especially in the early evening.

Too many things in our world are too regulated. To get away from all that I enjoy sailing (almost completely not regulated, but 'they' and the French are trying), and the allotment. http://alyrpal.blogspot.com/ . Here you can carry out simple manual tasks confident that some jobsworth is not going to turn up to enforce some politically correct rule or other. Pigeons ate my cabbages, we ate the pigeons!

seven-day-weekend

kenshaz wrote:

Wonderful,but do not wish your life away,who cares about the state pension,

I'm not wishing my life away.....I'm just looking forward!