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Random Thoughts: Retirement

ChibiChonk
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How do you want to retire?
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Let’s be honest. I just want to be able TO retire. It is looking more and more like my generation is working until the point they can’t.

That being said, I’d like to retire at a decent age. I’d like to be able to take the occasional cruise. I’d like to be able to afford all of my medications. Being diabetic is not cheap. I’d like to sell this two-story home for a one-story home. I have bad knees and I honestly don’t know what we were thinking when we decided on this house. It’s a nice home, but not built for retirement. I wish I could say spend time with my grandkids, but my son has decided that he will not be having any children. That can always change, but I know my son. If he has made a decision, it will take a miracle to change his mind. I’m not sure I’d make a good grandparent anyhow. I like the idea of spending time with my husband every day and playing board games. That seems like fun. A slower pace of life enjoying each other’s company as our time on this Earth winds down.

One response to “Random Thoughts: Retirement”

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    momomanamu

    Yeah, I think modern American retirement looks a lot different than it did in the past. In the past, retirement was stopping work completely and staying at home to while away your last years playing card games and chatting with other grannies and grandpa’s on the front porch. Now retirement is more of cutting down hours worked rather than stopping work. I work with a lot of “retirees”, who are still working, just working a half shift. Honestly, from what I’ve heard from talking to them, it sounds like their lives are basically the same as when they were “working age”, just some things are trimmed down or automated. Like they still work, just less hours, they still go shopping and run errands, they just have the heavy stuff delivered. Even if they have health issues, they still live in their homes, but they might have a visiting nurse come to their home once a week to check on them. Unfortunately, it also sounds like the era of “retirement is a none stop vacation for your last years”, is also a thing of the past.

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