THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

cornishchick

John just graduated from clinical psychology and opens his first office. After some successful advertising he is astounded to have nearly 300 people wanting to be in group therapy. John decides to rent a big hall and invite the entire group. To break the ice, and to get the therapy started, John decides to ask a show of hands how often the attendees had sex. He first asks for a show of hands of all the people who had sex almost every night. A modest number of hands were raised. He then asks, how many had sex once a week? This time a larger number of hands were raised. John then asks how many had sex once or twice a month? Again a few hands were raised. After John polled his group several more times he noticed one guy sitting off to the side with this huge beaming grin on his face. John noticed that the guy never raised his hand, so he asked him how often he had sex. The guy said, “Once a year!” To John's dismay, he responds, “Why are you so happy getting sex only once a year?” The grinning guy responds, "Tonight’s the night!"

cornishchick

On a serious note, my health is declining, my back is dodgy and I can't retire for 20 years, there's no why I can continue to work in care till then.. So , plans are made, I've cut my hours, stepped back from management and I've started to train as a counsellor, it will take 3 years but with luck I can then do some extra training to build on my current knowledge of learning disabilities and combine the two. , I have paid of huge chunks of the mortgage mans I'll continue to pay extra. Plan to be mortgage free in 3 ish years. Lol , worst case I could , at a pinch then live on my widows pension ... But I'll have other options...

milasavesmoney

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I am a bit confused by this?? I'm not sure why loneliness is being mentioned - as that's something unrelated to whether people have or have not had children???

I was referring to all women without children - and we know that a lot of single women have children too these days.

I'm not sure whether you're saying things are the other way round to what I would expect? I've read of a lot of women getting health problems from having children. I've not read of any women having health problems from not having children. The body is put under quite a strain having pregnancies, further strain in giving birth and more strain again from sleepless nights from babies waking frequently - so I would expect women who've gone through that to steadily be at higher and higher risk with each stage of that process of getting permanent health problems. The more children then the higher the risk of permanent health problems.

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On a different topic - it would be interesting to know what the health record of people generally of some other countries is (I'm thinking of Germany, Holland and the Scandinavian countries - ie similar lifestyles to our own, but where I would expect people to be healthier than here - courtesy of better healthcare than Britain has and their slightly different way of life/eating to ours). Distinct envy/feeling the Germans have got things right recently when I saw that the Germans can get 3 weeks for free in a spa if they need it...

In reverse - I would expect Americans to be unhealthier than British - courtesy of their diet and only 0-2 weeks paid holiday per year.

https://www.ssa.gov/planners/lifeexpectancy.html
Here is information provided by Dept of Social Security, the agency that all working Americans pay into for retirement benefits.

milasavesmoney

greenbee wrote: »

Oh - and the US holiday thing is not universal. My US colleagues get 35 days 'paid time off'. If they don't take any sick leave that's all holiday... However, they don't get sick leave separately like we do until ther insurance kicks in with short term disability, so time off for minor ailments has to come out of their annual leave.

Sick leave is generally separate from vacation time. This is fairly standard.

moneyistooshorttomention

milasavesmoney wrote: »

https://www.ssa.gov/planners/lifeexpectancy.html
Here is information provided by Dept of Social Security, the agency that all working Americans pay into for retirement benefits.

Very similar life expectancy to the British.

...and there's my depressing thought for the day imo - a 1 in 4 chance of living past 90:eek:. That's rather too high odds for my liking personally - and almost an excuse to head for the junk food/give up exercising/etc just in case I'm headed towards being that 1 out of 4:(.

Yep..my jaw dropped in astonishment when someone told me once that they hoped to live to 100! Oh well - each to their own on that I guess...though that would be "nightmare scenario" to me personally.

greenbee

milasavesmoney wrote: »

Sick leave is generally separate from vacation time. This is fairly standard.

So my employers are odd in their US employment practices as well as over here? I guess it's reassuring that they are consistent in their failure to follow normal employment practices!

thriftwizard

I actually don't think life over 90 needs to be an unendurable burden. When I worked in social housing, one day I found one of my tenants with her wrist in plaster and a wry grin on her face. Turned out she'd fallen off the table she was dancing on to celebrate her 94th birthday... she also used to trot off weekly to the market with her shopping trolley to pick up stuff for the "old dears" who were 30 years younger than herself! There are at least two bellydance teachers still working in the States who are older than my mother, one very glamorous & accomplished high-level teacher over here who's 75 and only started 20 years ago, and here's a bit of inspiration for anyone worrying about getting older!

moneyistooshorttomention

Good for her Thriftwizard - always nice to see any times where there is "life in the old dog yet":beer:. Personally - I'm still collating YouTube videos on new-style-of-dance-to-me - as it looks like fun.

A long life is not for me personally though....

frosty

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Very similar life expectancy to the British.

...and there's my depressing thought for the day imo - a 1 in 4 chance of living past 90:eek:. That's rather too high odds for my liking personally - and almost an excuse to head for the junk food/give up exercising/etc just in case I'm headed towards being that 1 out of 4:(.

Yep..my jaw dropped in astonishment when someone told me once that they hoped to live to 100! Oh well - each to their own on that I guess...though that would be "nightmare scenario" to me personally.

I have my own cleaning business and I clean for a number of older people,many who are well into their nineties.When I am cleaning their fridges out or sorting their food cupboards I am always amazed at the junk food they eat.:eek:.......cakes,biscuits,chocolate,crisps,ready meals everyday and endless processed foods.Very little fruit and veg many of them never touch it.When we start talking about diet they say they have eaten this way for most of their life.:eek:

fuddle

I remember a customer of mine when I was caring. She was a sprightly 104 year old and had no intention of giving in to old age. Her memory was top notch, conversational skills were fab and suffered no fools.

She once told me to light the gas oven by sticking my head in with a match. Like I said, suffered no fools!