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Retirement hobbies

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  • GrateEggspectations
    GrateEggspectations Posts: 11,564
    If your wife doesn’t like you golfing, you can suggest an alternative hobby: chasing a younger, prettier and more tolerant wife. 😊
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  • Tailgate215
    Tailgate215 Posts: 17
    Guns, Golf, Guitars and Green Egg... never enough time.  Retired in 2014. If your young or if you're just about to retire, I highly recommend spending beaucoup time on the Early Retirement Forum.  You will learn all you need to know about Life 2.0   Also check out the FireCalc retirement calculator.  It's free and will help more than I can explain.  Cheers!
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,354
    Tailgate215 said:
    I highly recommend spending beaucoup time on the Early Retirement Forum.  You will learn all you need to know about Life 2.0   
    "Page Not Found"?  

    “I'll have what she's having."  

        -Rob Reiner's mother!   

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • Gulfcoastguy
    Gulfcoastguy Posts: 7,331
    Botch said:
    Tailgate215 said:
    I highly recommend spending beaucoup time on the Early Retirement Forum.  You will learn all you need to know about Life 2.0   
    "Page Not Found"?  
    Searching for it is one way to occupy your retirement hours? 

    There are some expenses that people don’t consider in retirement. Today I went and paid my house property tax. It included $650.00 in school tax though I have no kids ( that I know of though 23andme could always surprise me) Car insurance is in February. It has been creeping up every year since I turned 55 even though I haven’t had any accidents in 20 years. Health insurance went up $13 a month on the premiums but the real money grabber is increased copays . 
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,453
    I baled out of the rat race at age 60. That was some 15 years ago. I hope everyone can do the same or even better! 
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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  • littlerascal56
    littlerascal56 Posts: 2,110
    Not sure why this thread got resurrected by Nola (check out the time stamps 2:30-3:00 am), but judging by his abusive posts, I am assuming alcohol was involved.  I have been a member since 2015, with lots of cooks and pictures.  Have even sold some of you guys my custom egg tables, cutting boards, etc.  

    Just not sure what all his hostility is about?  I have discussed this with others via private messages, and several agree with me.  Not a good thing for the forum for sure!
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    littlerascal56 said:
    Not sure why this thread got resurrected by Nola (check out the time stamps 2:30-3:00 am), but judging by his abusive posts, I am assuming alcohol was involved.  I have been a member since 2015, with lots of cooks and pictures.  Have even sold some of you guys my custom egg tables, cutting boards, etc.  

    Just not sure what all his hostility is about?  I have discussed this with others via private messages, and several agree with me.  Not a good thing for the forum for sure!
    Yeah, I read your PMs.  (html loophole)

    I guess I can be misinterpereted as mean.  Just internet hijinks. Sorry for hurting your feelings, man!  Not a good thing for the forum for sure!  I want this place to be a safe place for you!!!

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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    PS just kidding about the loophole
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  • Legume
    Legume Posts: 15,936

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    I didn't realize I was so mean and hostile.  The masses are after me.....  Ho-Lee-Fook!

    "I have discussed this with others via private messages, and several agree with me.  Not a good thing for the forum for sure!"
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    I read this: 

     "What else is a old retired Utility Manager living in Kansas got to do with his time in the middle of winter?  Watch FOX News, and “stir the pot” on the forum.  By spring, I can get back in the “7 days a week on golf  course” mode, and all us retired guys get to hash out the worlds problems at the 19th hole with adult beverages. Cheers!!!"

    I figured, this guy is game.  But NOOOOOO, I'VE INVADED HIS SAFE SPACE!  

    So very sorry.  Really.

    Proclimation to dish it out, then PM-ing others when realizing, can't take it.  None of your charges at the Utility Manager office did this!  Horrific!  He is soooo mean.  

    If you know anything about me, you will...nevermind.  That "whooshing" sound.  

    Carry on, and 

    Cheers!
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    And you have posted plenty of buffalo'd troll threads, and zero cook threads, btw, your thread history is under your home page.
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109

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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    can't fault a fun-lovin guy for "stirring the pot", right?
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  • YukonRon
    YukonRon Posts: 17,261
    Those guys that post between 2:30 and 3:00 A.M. are nothing but ässholes. 

    They have done nothing but incite alcohol soaked arguments based on left wing propaganda.

    That is exactly what happens when you watch CNN and other socialist agenda television shows, 24/7, instead of getting out to get exercise and fresh air on the golf course.

    They need to watch Fox News, quit thinking so much, and save their drinking to proper times, such as around the 19th hole with their buddies, before getting in their cars and driving home.
    "Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber

    XL and MM
    Louisville, Kentucky
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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,709
    edited January 2020
    nolaegghead said:
    And you have posted plenty of buffalo'd troll threads, and zero cook threads, btw, your thread history is under your home page.
    LOL I just checked this out and you're right.  Member for 4+ years, and zero cook threads.  A gigantic goose egg!  Geez.  I guess all of the golfing and Fox News watching and stirring of the pot gets in the way.  

    I would love to know which forum members he PMd about your "abusive" behavior and alcohol-induced posts.  
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
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  • Acn
    Acn Posts: 4,490
    Y'all can flame me all you want, but I don't understand the retirement fetishism.  I've got probably 25ish years, until I'm 67, and I may go longer.  I know I could cut 7 or so years off that if I jacked up my contributions and have much less disposable income now, but why?  We're taking 3 trips this year, and if we waited until retirement 1 wouldn't be possible at all and another may not be possible and/or we may not be physically able to do what we want to do.

    LBGE

    Pikesville, MD

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  • CPFC1905
    CPFC1905 Posts: 2,126
    Acn said:
    Y'all can flame me all you want, but I don't understand the retirement fetishism.  I've got probably 25ish years, until I'm 67, and I may go longer.  I know I could cut 7 or so years off that if I jacked up my contributions and have much less disposable income now, but why?  We're taking 3 trips this year, and if we waited until retirement 1 wouldn't be possible at all and another may not be possible and/or we may not be physically able to do what we want to do.
    You're right about the balance.  Pensions and savings are an 'outgoing' or expenditure and should be scrutinised as such.  The only difference is that you can recall savings.

    In your position there's way too many variables to start making solid plans for retirement - other than having some sort of pension.  Everyones circumstances are different, ie. kids, divorces, habits & hobbies, other investments or debts - known and unknown.       

    Best advice I ever got was; don't make long term plans, but be organised instead.    So I aim to keep on top of personal admin and keep an eye on what's looming.  
    Other girls may try to take me away 
    But you know, it's by your side I will stay
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  • Tailgate215
    Tailgate215 Posts: 17
    hope this link works for the Early Retirement Forum  http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/


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  • YEMTrey
    YEMTrey Posts: 6,835
    Tailgate215 said:
    hope this link works for the Early Retirement Forum  http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/


    @T@Tailgate215 I've been on that site for years.  Read it constantly.  Great site!
    Steve 
    XL, Mini Max, and a 22" Blackstone in Cincinnati, Ohio
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  • YEMTrey
    YEMTrey Posts: 6,835
    edited January 2020
    Acn said:
    Y'all can flame me all you want, but I don't understand the retirement fetishism.  I've got probably 25ish years, until I'm 67, and I may go longer.  I know I could cut 7 or so years off that if I jacked up my contributions and have much less disposable income now, but why?  We're taking 3 trips this year, and if we waited until retirement 1 wouldn't be possible at all and another may not be possible and/or we may not be physically able to do what we want to do.


     There's definitely a balance to it.  You still have to live while saving for retirement.  I'm like @DoubleEgger, ready to control my life right now.
    Steve 
    XL, Mini Max, and a 22" Blackstone in Cincinnati, Ohio
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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,709
    Acn said:
    Y'all can flame me all you want, but I don't understand the retirement fetishism.  I've got probably 25ish years, until I'm 67, and I may go longer.  I know I could cut 7 or so years off that if I jacked up my contributions and have much less disposable income now, but why?  We're taking 3 trips this year, and if we waited until retirement 1 wouldn't be possible at all and another may not be possible and/or we may not be physically able to do what we want to do.
    I think a lot of it for folks is how much they hate their current job, or how stressful it is.   For some jobs I can totally understand how people can't wait to be done.  I travel plenty but there are people that are in planes twice a week or more.  I would hate my job if I had to travel that often, and be eager to get to retirement.

    But one point your post reminded me of is that if people can manage it, they definitely shouldn't put off doing lots of fun things until retirement.   Take the time to do some cool stuff now when you're relatively young and healthy, and it's not painful to say walk around several miles in a cool city on a nice day.  
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,354
    RRP said:
    I baled out of the rat race at age 60. That was some 15 years ago. I hope everyone can do the same or even better! 
    I've got three more Working Mondays to go, and turn 60 in mid-February, so I did better!
    By two weeks.  :lol:
     
    Lots of good points about "wanting" vs "having" to work, that makes a big difference.  I've been the Military Construction POC for Hill AFB for four years now; we have about a dozen projects that really need to get funded, but in that time Congress only funded one, last year, and those funds were usurped for somebody's wall at the southern border.  :angry:
    So, no, I have no fulfillment and its not worth going to work anymore.  If I do get bored (and this is a strong possibility) the on-base contractors for the "Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent" (replacement for the Minuteman III ICBM) are hurting for engineers, and that's the field I'd spent most of my career in (I've had a couple nibbles already, even though I haven't advertised yet).  We'll see.
     
    What's been said about health, and being able to do the things you want, is also high in my consideration.  I've had two DVTs and two PEs (blood clots to the legs and lungs) and if the next one hits the ticker or my thick skull, that's "lights-out".  I don't want to die a year before my retirement, like my Dad did...  :|

    “I'll have what she's having."  

        -Rob Reiner's mother!   

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • TigerTony
    TigerTony Posts: 1,078
    edited January 2020
    @DoubleEgger   You nailed it.  
    "Personally, I’ve been looking to retire since Day 1. I can always find something better to do than go to work." 
    Love his wisdom!
    "I'm stupidest when I try to be funny" 
    New Orleans

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  • Wolfpack
    Wolfpack Posts: 3,552
    @botch the GBSD should be awarded around Aug/Sept depending on the protest. That one should last decades- although not as long as the D5 program. Ready for that one to award- should be a good annuity for me. 
    Greensboro, NC
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    One of my pre-retirement hobbies is to cook and post on this forum.
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