fortunate for me i paid off our credit card debt when i retired 20 years ago, paid off our mortgage by refinancing and making double payments each month, and have had very few health problems; i continue to live a very simple life, something my husband did throughout our time together before he passed away 16 years ago.
I’m trying to learn a lesson from my deceased father. He saved magazines, and mountains of videos, many books, and parts and tools for projects and new hobbies…and then didn’t do any of it. He just watched TV or maybe read a bit of magazines before falling asleep. The house was stacked full of literally tons upon tons of magazines dated back 15 or more previous years. There were several thousands of VHS video tapes, recorded at such low resolution that they were not playable anymore after 20 years. There were 6 electronic organs of various quality – all still essentially new in their boxes. I kept a few of the tools, those that weren’t cheap junk or old rusty and worn out, but everything else was given or thrown away. There was so much stuff that it would take two full lifetimes, at least, to watch, read, play, make do with all that stuff, let alone one person’s retirement years. My trash bin is now full every week.
Doctor Toon about 3 years ago
Ive got the books
Only about 2 dozen on the shelf that I haven’t read, although I am going book shopping later today
The whole collection is over 300 books and I have edited them down to the point where there are not any of them that I would not reread
Now I just need to make it to retirement
Dani Rice about 3 years ago
Sounds about right.
car2ner about 3 years ago
I’m planning for retirement by getting rid of a lot of that kind of stuff.
Michael G. about 3 years ago
That list of old friends might need revising.
christelisbetty about 3 years ago
Reality came along and defunded a lot of my plans.
cuzinron47 about 3 years ago
Retirement is not for us procrastinators, that’s for sure.
j.l.farmer about 3 years ago
fortunate for me i paid off our credit card debt when i retired 20 years ago, paid off our mortgage by refinancing and making double payments each month, and have had very few health problems; i continue to live a very simple life, something my husband did throughout our time together before he passed away 16 years ago.
Macushlalondra about 3 years ago
What’s stopping him from at least reading the books? He has time for that stuff now.
drycurt about 3 years ago
I’m trying to learn a lesson from my deceased father. He saved magazines, and mountains of videos, many books, and parts and tools for projects and new hobbies…and then didn’t do any of it. He just watched TV or maybe read a bit of magazines before falling asleep. The house was stacked full of literally tons upon tons of magazines dated back 15 or more previous years. There were several thousands of VHS video tapes, recorded at such low resolution that they were not playable anymore after 20 years. There were 6 electronic organs of various quality – all still essentially new in their boxes. I kept a few of the tools, those that weren’t cheap junk or old rusty and worn out, but everything else was given or thrown away. There was so much stuff that it would take two full lifetimes, at least, to watch, read, play, make do with all that stuff, let alone one person’s retirement years. My trash bin is now full every week.