Retirees what is your typical day

sgx2000

fly-catchers said:

Currently with a newly adopted rescue cat it is cat on lap! 

Hard day then....  lol

bluenose1

fly-catchers said:

Currently with a newly adopted rescue cat it is cat on lap! 

My Cavapoo who thinks she is a cat is snoozing partly lying on the top of the sofa in the sun and  partly on my shoulder. 
Going to have to disturb her soon unfortunately as time to do some mobility stretches….

My official 3 month mark of being retired today. Absolutely loving it and all my financial anxieties about giving up work totally gone. Looking back I had nowt to fear and possibly should have gone sooner. Would rather cut my cloth than have work anxiety again.

Been for a 90 minute walk in woods this morning, will now do some exercises, then off for a coffee to a nearby village this afternoon. Tomorrow similar with gym and sauna thrown in, and visit to friends. 

Need to fit in some tidying up and reading, it’s a hard life.

sgx2000

Love it Bluenose...

I am 64... still working... But there is a current round of redundancies in the offing...

So fingers crossed....

Would love to retire this year

The reason I started this thread was to give inspiration to all of us who are really close but not quite there yet....

Love the comments...  Love the insights

ex-pat_scot

Univ friend, turned 55 a couple of months ago, announced last week that he'd been offered a redundancy package.
Yesterday is his first day of retirement!
33 years of FS pension no doubt will be very lucrative.

Bostonerimus1

sgx2000 said:

Bostonerimus1 said:

8:00 am telecon with folks who employ me to do some some contract engineering.
Then 25 mile bike ride to a cafe (coffee, beef-jalepeno and horseradish cream sandwich, raspberry square) and 25 miles back home. Listened to "The Rest is History" podcasts on Martin Luther.
Afternoon spent re seeding bare spots on the lawn and sat down and drank two beers while I admired my work.

Apart from the bike rides & contract work
It sounds marvelous 

I will charge 1hr for the telecon and I think I said two sentences. Enjoying the bike ride or not depends on how much you like cycling. It's a great low impact way to keep fit so ideal for older folks as it's easy on the joints.

Rich1976

sgx2000 said:

Love it Bluenose...

I am 64... still working... But there is a current round of redundancies in the offing...

So fingers crossed....

Would love to retire this year

The reason I started this thread was to give inspiration to all of us who are really close but not quite there yet....

Love the comments...  Love the insights

It’s also an inspiration to those of us with quite a way to go and always wondering are we saving enough, will we be able to. 

katejo

ex-pat_scot said:

Univ friend, turned 55 a couple of months ago, announced last week that he'd been offered a redundancy package.
Yesterday is his first day of retirement!
33 years of FS pension no doubt will be very lucrative.

Their Uni pension is still FS? I had FS from 1990 to 2016 but then it stopped and was replaced by Career average. I do have nearly 34 years in total. At least the FS part won't be affected if I retire before 67.

Hal17

sgx2000 said:

Got any plans for today?

Do nothing

But you did that yesterday

Didn't finish

Hilarious comment.......

Totally agree that made me laugh out loud. My wife is always using line 1 and line 3 when starting the day. My normal reply is line 2. Never consider using line 4 .... I'm going to try that tomorrow - brilliant. 

Ganga

Bostonerimus1 said:

sgx2000 said:

Bostonerimus1 said:

8:00 am telecon with folks who employ me to do some some contract engineering.
Then 25 mile bike ride to a cafe (coffee, beef-jalepeno and horseradish cream sandwich, raspberry square) and 25 miles back home. Listened to "The Rest is History" podcasts on Martin Luther.
Afternoon spent re seeding bare spots on the lawn and sat down and drank two beers while I admired my work.

Apart from the bike rides & contract work
It sounds marvelous 

I will charge 1hr for the telecon and I think I said two sentences. Enjoying the bike ride or not depends on how much you like cycling. It's a great low impact way to keep fit so ideal for older folks as it's easy on the joints.

But i always find it hard on my bum 

cfw1994

20th day of actual skiing here in Les Arcs (French Alps)….350km done so far 💪
I can thoroughly recommend it ⛷️
3 pals joined us for a week each, & our son is here now, plus some other pals own their own apartment and are here to ski & socialise with: great fun 👍
Some fresh snow and blue skies this week (& ferocious gales at one point…)….trying hard to keep going!

I was inspired by a work friend who took a sabbatical some years ago & did a full season in the mountains.  We had only ever done a week, & are not massively good skiers, but we figured out 4 weeks only costs a little more than 2, so we have factored it into retired life (until we are too decrepit, of course….or the ice melts 😱).

Back to reality at the weekend 😳