View Poll Results: How old are you?
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1-30
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3.95% |
31-40
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57 |
11.26% |
41-50
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80 |
15.81% |
50-60
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239 |
47.23% |
60+
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21.74% |
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04-18-2013, 05:01 PM
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#81
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 150
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66 here and will will retire early at 67.
Rob
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04-18-2013, 05:11 PM
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#82
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Desert SW
Posts: 358
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I'm 56 and DW is 55 (she's still working and paying for health insurance).
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Retired in 2011 at 54
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04-18-2013, 08:05 PM
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#83
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: The Beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains
Posts: 2,781
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MuirWannabe
Your either of the mindset for extreme ER or you were born on Feb 29th.
BTW....I'm 50.
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Yup, I've lived 53 years.
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04-18-2013, 10:46 PM
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#84
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Upstate
Posts: 699
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rodi
Alternatively, I'm Forty-eleven.
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What are you, a hobbit?
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Yeah well, that's just, ya know, like, your opinion, man. ~ The Dude
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04-19-2013, 03:50 AM
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#85
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Confused about dryer sheets
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 3
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JOHNNIE36
Had a thread some time back by "imoldernu" on the subject but did not go back to check the details. He and I are getting a little long in the tooth but can't remember who is the oldest.
I'll be 77 in September. Retired 5-1-88 at 51.5 years of age. In a couple weeks I'll be celebrating my 25th year of retirement. What a joy it has been. Never regretted for one minute the fact that I went out so young. Every day has been an adventure and if I die tomorrow, I'll have no regrets. It feels good to know the only day I have to get up at a certain time is on my golf days.
Best wishes to everyone.
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I was about 90 when you retired. Days that is.
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04-19-2013, 08:04 AM
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#86
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Lawn chair in Texas
Posts: 14,183
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Quote:
Originally Posted by keegs
56 ...plan to retire @ 62.
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58. Planned to retire at 50...
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Have Funds, Will Retire
...not doing anything of true substance...
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04-19-2013, 09:01 AM
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#87
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 11,701
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HFWR
3A
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By HFWR's method, that puts me at 32.
Or L by another method.
Hey, there are 2 50s in the poll. (What, do you work for a push poll company?) So I chose the younger of the 2.
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04-19-2013, 02:17 PM
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#88
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 162
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54. The corporate world sucked the life out of me so I started a new one a month before turning 50. So I guess I'm actually 4 in this new life and loving every minute of it!
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04-19-2013, 03:01 PM
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#89
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Naples
Posts: 2,179
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Quote:
Originally Posted by slow n steady
I was about 90 when you retired. Days that is.
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Hang in there. You'll make it some day; however, with the way things are going and never knowing what the future holds, you will never know when that will be. Still, you have to have goals. Without goals, all is lost. Maybe your goal would be to never retire and to just work and save your entire life. Well, then your goal would be to live as long as possible and accumulate much wealth. Others on this forum have goals to retire as young as possible while assuring they have saved enough to cover them through the rest of their lives. All are different goals. And, goals will change throughout your life. Trust me, my goals were set (in my mind) but when my wife got cancer those goals changed. She survived (her last bout was in 1987) and then our goals changed again. Eleven years after that she went through reconstruction and our goals changed again. And 15 years later I think we have reached the end of our goal setting.
Sorry for the rant, just wanted to get that off my chest.
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04-19-2013, 03:23 PM
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#90
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 2,983
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Turning 57 a week from next Tuesday. I'll be with DW at Capt Tony's with DW in KW, FL. courtesy of megacorp
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Took SS at 62 and hope I live long enough to regret the decision.
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04-19-2013, 04:06 PM
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#91
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 410
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60
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ACC USN-(Ret)
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04-19-2013, 04:15 PM
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#92
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: SF East Bay
Posts: 4,323
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I'm 49 1/2. Not quite sure how that happened
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Contentedly ER, with 3 furry friends (now, sadly, 1).
Planning my escape to the wide open spaces in my campervan (with my remaining kitty, of course!)
On a mission to become the world's second most boring man.
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04-19-2013, 04:27 PM
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#93
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Sacramento area
Posts: 467
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LauAnn
54 years + 358 days.
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Pre congrats. I am exactly 59 today
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04-19-2013, 07:04 PM
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#94
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 296
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04-19-2013, 08:35 PM
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#95
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 939
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I'll be 65 in June and get Medicare!!! A big financial "whew" since I'm paying so much now for health insurance.
And based on the poll, I'm feeling like one of the old people (sob...)
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I used to be “Thinker25” here. Retired at 62, now 73 (in 2021), no regrets & single again. I love it. I’m in RI.
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04-19-2013, 09:26 PM
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#96
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 5,858
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I'm in the 'over the hill gang'. Sixty.
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04-20-2013, 05:01 AM
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#97
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: USA
Posts: 1,050
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44 this year
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04-20-2013, 06:02 AM
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#98
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gone traveling
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: DFW
Posts: 7,586
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Quote:
Originally Posted by REWahoo
Wait a couple of years, then try a few frosty adult beverages...
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Or spend enough time on this board and you won't need any frosty adult beverages
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04-20-2013, 07:53 AM
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#99
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 99
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I refuse to get old. (Of course, my body seems to have different ideas .) I know some very old twenty-somethings, and some very young eighty-somethings. IMHO, age can be a state of mind. Think young, be young.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Felix
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04-20-2013, 08:12 AM
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#100
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,472
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Quote:
Originally Posted by thinker25
I'll be 65 in June and get Medicare!!! A big financial "whew" since I'm paying so much now for health insurance.
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Me too, coincidently! I already have my Medicare card, valid June 1st. I am thinking of laminating it, though. Don't want it to get all raggedy before I can even use it. I don't think it will save me much money, since I have federal retiree health insurance that remains the same price even with Medicare Parts A&B, but I might save a little on co-pays and such.
Well, I suppose. Still, the older we get the greater our statistical life expectancy is. I plan to outlive most of the "kids" on the board. At least, I will give it my best shot.
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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. - - H. Melville, 1851.
Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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