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Ariel Badger
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PostPosted: 00:02 - 27 Jan 2023    Post subject: Retired people, what do you fill your days with? Reply with quote

Personally after 6 years I wonder how I ever had time for work! I am on the management team of a nature reserve and have been building flood defences and habitat creation. I am building a 1942 motorcycle for a friend and working on my own bikes plus I help cleaning the bikes at the National Motorcycle Museum. I am also involved in three photographic projects that will last until 2024 and have three commissions to write for magazines.
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PostPosted: 00:47 - 27 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Many people who do not last long in retirement either lack mobility or worse, have limited imagination. Spent their whole life being guided/managed and as soon as no one pushes them they collapse.
Keeping active is vital to keeping healthy.

I will be phaphing with stuff after I retire.
I have projects coming out ma bahookee.
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PostPosted: 03:39 - 27 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Retirement...oh that'd be champion.

More of what I do now. No bucket list for me as that's ongoing since my first pube..and to be fair in the big scheme of things I'm doing okay regarding experiences/love/loss/goals/failures/comfort/skint.

Hope I don't get grumpier. I admire those that get pass that trope.
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PostPosted: 10:00 - 27 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can afford to retire now if i die next thursday, otherwise its probably another 35 years of graft in engineering that will leave me a grumpy old man whose hands are 75% metal splinters.
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PostPosted: 10:08 - 27 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

I could keep going at the current company I work for indefinitely until my mind lets go at least Smile

My father-in-law retired a few years ago and the 5 bikes he has now keep him busy. Then there's the riding of the bikes, meet ups with other bikers, doing bike restoration projects. He's redecorated his house and still does the occasion "real" work as favours to mates. AFAIK he keeps pretty busy.

The only thing holding him back is arthritis in his hands otherwise he'd probably work himself to death doing even more restoration projects.
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PostPosted: 13:21 - 27 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

MCN wrote:
Many people who do not last long in retirement either lack mobility or worse, have limited imagination. Spent their whole life being guided/managed and as soon as no one pushes them they collapse.
Keeping active is vital to keeping healthy..


This^+1.

There’s always stuff that needs doing, : house, car, bikes, garden, relatives..
Add into that any other hobbies and there’s alway a full day.

You can take a day off any time you like and the boss won’t tell you off Thumbs Up .
I retired early because I’m bone idle.
Every day I can find ‘stuff’ to do if I want to.
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PostPosted: 13:41 - 27 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Retired due to ill health last year ... got enough private pension to last about 7 years and get mortgage paid off ... will worry about the other 4 years to pension age later Laughing

Done f'all for the past year but that's all change ... well as soon as I've recovered from the current bout of hospital shit.

Current plans ...

1) Steampunkify entire bathroom from scratch ... new double ended bath with lovely bespoke Sapele ends and bits in between ... slice of log with (most liked) turned wooden basin on top, with adjustable swingy shelves underneath ... panelled walls ... two glass panels with mirror foil behind bath in front of brick wall (normal light on they act as mirrors, with normal light off and back light on you see the brick wall) ... bespoke cistern made of mahogany, glass, brass and copper ... funky taps made from pipework and valves.

2) Huge edge belt sander using two 150mm x 3000m belts (rough/smooth) or one 300mm x 3000mm belt.

3) 18" bandsaw with a lovely curvy frame.

4) Combined CNC laser and milling machine ... footprint of around 1500mm x 1000mm, with pass through meaning I can do 8' by 4' sheets in three passes.

5) Wood turning combined with resin.

6) General woodworking and jig making.

7) YouTube channel started, showing all of the above.

8) Having fun and hopefully using the above to make some extra money for the years I don't have any (up until pension age).

9) Anything else I can think of.

Not really much I suppose Shocked
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PostPosted: 13:42 - 27 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can do stuff or not do stuff as it takes me. Life is great.

Saying that, I've seen people retire, lie down and die. They just couldn't handle not doing anything, not seeing thei workmates every day etc.

I love not seeing people. Cool
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PostPosted: 14:07 - 27 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Planning a gradual retirement. 'Er indoors wants to go in 4 years time, whereas I want to work 6 months a year from then until I'm 67 (or get bored, whichever comes the soonest), so in the 6 months I'm not working we have enough money to cross the Andes by frog etc... I am lucky in that I can pick up contracts for specified amounts of time in the work I do, so unless the market changes dramatically, happy days!

A relatively lightweight bike I can tour on with other likeminded old farts is a large part of the future.

By the time the missus is ready to retire the kids should have all gone (hopefully...) and we can downsize so not have a mortgage. Only then can we put our plan into action.
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PostPosted: 14:18 - 27 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

8 years till one pension starts paying out. At that point I go part time. 7 tears later the second pension and the state pension pay out, coinciding with my mortgage being paid off.
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PostPosted: 18:29 - 27 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looking at another 5+ years before the state pension and I've not got enough in NHS/private pensions to retire yet, due to having dicked around for the last 30 years Laughing

Kinda living day-to-day at the moment in case anyone Down Under gets sick and snuffs it - or gets round to having grandchildren (looks pointedly at daughter) ... and then I'll *have* to rearrange my life entirely, so who knows what I might get up to in my retirement Rolling Eyes

"Read, eat, sleep, repeat" is my preference but I think I'll probably get bored with that pretty quick. Likely to end up retiring to NZ/Aus. So "read, ride, swim, eat, sunbathe, sleep, repeat" might be closer to reality. Cool along with more gardening, probably.

I'd probably still do ad hoc typing of letters and arranging of appointments for some desperate medic.

Might sit on a few boards as a NED, dunno yet.

My mum at 83 still takes in ironing, but fuck that for a game of soldiers. I ain't ironing.
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PostPosted: 20:50 - 27 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thinking ... might get another car eventually ... Thinking
Something a bit racy, haha.
A "snappy chariot" Wub

Bloody petrolheads.
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PostPosted: 20:54 - 27 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

hellkat wrote:
Thinking ... might get another car eventually ... Thinking
Something a bit racy, haha.
A "snappy chariot" Wub

Bloody petrolheads.


I could see you in a bright red Austin Healey Sprite. You'll need to keep fluttering your eyelashes at those consultants...
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PostPosted: 21:02 - 27 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote



Hmmm Thinking


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PostPosted: 21:29 - 27 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

probably wont be allowed to retire by the time i reach that age. the government keep changing the rules Sad
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PostPosted: 22:26 - 27 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

A lot of people in this thread have spoke about income for retirement.
I don’t have a very big income, however, I’ve found that my lifestyle has evolved to suit my income.
I’m sure that I’m not the only person this has happened to.

You get to a certain age (even before retirement) where a big fancy house and lots of big fancy toys don’t seem to matter.

I’m selling loads of my toys/rubbish/junk.
I’d rather have the money in the bank and be secure with the bills and or go out for a nice meal.

When you fall off the mortal coil, you can’t take the big house and fancy toys with you.
Big houses and fancy toys take a lot of looking after, not so good as you start feeling your age Confused .
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PostPosted: 22:28 - 27 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

pepperami wrote:
I’m selling loads of my toys/rubbish/junk.


Any bikes going Laughing
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PostPosted: 07:41 - 28 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

P. wrote:
pepperami wrote:
I’m selling loads of my toys/rubbish/junk.


Any bikes going Laughing


Sadly, yes Sad .
At least two, maybe three Crying or Very sad

Wanna buy a boat?
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PostPosted: 09:15 - 28 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm scared of water. So that's probably a no.

Pm me the bikes you are selling dude, I'm always game for a 2 wheeler to fill the garage Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 03:45 - 29 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cooking up meth and making senior porn vids to supplement me pension
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PostPosted: 05:01 - 29 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

WD Forte wrote:
Cooking up meth and making senior porn vids to supplement me pension


Shocked that’s scary!
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PostPosted: 01:32 - 31 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

WD Forte wrote:
Cooking up meth and making senior porn vids to supplement me pension

Been semi retired for about 10 years now, just turned 50, but seems Im missing out on Meth Razz
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PostPosted: 20:37 - 07 Feb 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

pepperami wrote:
WD Forte wrote:
Cooking up meth and making senior porn vids to supplement me pension


Shocked that’s scary!


Nahh, you just need to get really really drunk and not wear yer glasses
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PostPosted: 21:23 - 07 Feb 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

pepperami wrote:
WD Forte wrote:
Cooking up meth and making senior porn vids to supplement me pension


Shocked that’s scary!


Never seen 'Jurassic Poke' ? Wink
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