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View Poll Results: How busy is your retirement?
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So bored, I went back to work (or considering it)
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0.90% |
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Somewhat boring; I have too much free time.
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11.71% |
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Fairly busy. Not much slack time
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73.87% |
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Each day is full of activities and no free time to speak of.
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I'm over-scheduled and need to offload some stuff.
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I need to go back to w*rk, as I had more free time then!
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Poll: How Busy Has Retirement Been?
01-02-2018, 11:35 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Hog Mountian
Posts: 2,077
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Poll: How Busy Has Retirement Been?
I just completed 6 months of retirement. I retired within 30 days after turning 60. I have been very busy with both planned and unplanned stuff. Almost all stuff is what DW and I want to do. The pace is slower than when w*rking, and stress; what is thing you call stress 
Anyway, we're loving it, and just wanted toss this poll out and see how others have fared.
Thanks!
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01-02-2018, 11:53 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Central MS/Orange Beach, AL
Posts: 9,071
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Needed one more. Plenty of free time and enjoying it. 
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Retired 3/31/2007@52
Investing style: Full time wuss.
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01-02-2018, 11:58 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 35,712
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Heck, even when I am surfin' the Web and shooting the breeze here, I am busy doing somethin'. I am not just laying there, not knowing what to do.
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01-02-2018, 12:07 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Alberta/Ontario/ Arizona
Posts: 3,393
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I’m not surprised the results seem to be in the “just right” zone. After all in retirement we have control and generally get to do it “our way”. In my view only boring people need be bored in retirement.
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01-02-2018, 12:08 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Alberta/Ontario/ Arizona
Posts: 3,393
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Originally Posted by NW-Bound
Heck, even when I am surfin' the Web and shooting the breeze here, I am busy doing somethin'. I am not just laying there, not knowing what to do.
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Ya. Really. This site is good to fill in those short gaps in activity.
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01-02-2018, 12:10 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Chattanooga
Posts: 3,892
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Earning money is an action, saving money is a behavior, growing money takes a well diversified portfolio and the discipline to ignore market swings.
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01-02-2018, 12:20 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 11,401
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01-02-2018, 12:22 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: ATL --> Flyover Country
Posts: 6,649
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Just over 3 years retired and I would say that on most days, I wake up with nothing planned but go to bed with only getting 1/2 of it done.
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FIRE'd in 2014 @ 40 Years Old
Professional Retiree
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01-02-2018, 12:26 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 6,695
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Retired in late 2008 at age 45. Cashed in company stock, bought a lot of shares in a big bond fund and am living nicely off its dividends. IRA, SS, and a pension await me at age 60 and later. No kids, no debts.
"I want my money working for me instead of me working for my money!"
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01-02-2018, 12:27 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Huntsville, AL/Helen, GA
Posts: 6,002
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I retired 9 years ago. I started out just maintaining our main house and a lake house, and was busy enough. Did go on mission projects too.
Then my parents so!d their main residence and moved into an apartment 200 miles away. I had to break down the house furnishings and move them.
Then my aunt with dementia had big house 100 mi. away and I had to break down her house too--an immense job. We sent her to Asst. Living and eventually a nursing home.
We bought my daughter a large fixer upper house for a great price. Moved her in after 6 hard weeks to manual labor.
Wife got bored and started looking for big foreclosures. We found one (5 bedrooms, 5 full baths) in great shape and moved in it.
It took 10 months to recondition our old house and get the rest of the family's accumulated "stuff" moved so we could sell it in 2 weeks for list price.I
Then we evicted our daughter from the house we bought her for not paying the bills and general disrepair. Sold it in 2 weeks to a house flipper for no loss.
Then moved our daughter's stuff into a spare bedroom and second garage.
We are just about moved out after 9 years of perpetual buying/selling/building/moving. Now I have to recondition and sell 2 cars we no longer use.
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01-02-2018, 12:27 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Flyover country
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This is the case for many of us. A never-ending vacation that includes travel only when we want it.
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I thought growing old would take longer.
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01-02-2018, 12:33 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Des Moines
Posts: 1,388
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I enjoy my "slack time". I have really slowed down and I can now sit around for quite some time before I get antsy.
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Retired in 2013 and we are living the dream!
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01-02-2018, 12:38 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 35,712
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Danmar
Ya. Really. This site is good to fill in those short gaps in activity.
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Particularly as I make a post while waiting in a doctor's office, where I drove my mother for her visit. Makes the time go by faster than flipping through their stack of magazine.
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"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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01-02-2018, 12:43 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Sac suburb
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I didn't find one that applies to me.
Oh wait, found it!
+ whateveritisupto
The way the poll is worded it seems that the OP views free time as a negative. 
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01-02-2018, 12:48 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jun 2010
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I agree with this sentiment, thus I did not vote.
Having said that, my first two years were a bit different than the last three. Thank goodness I was retired when Dad got sick 6 months after I retired. It was like a part-time job helping both he and Mom navigate the health care system and provide support. Never would have been able to do it had I been working.
Now I have lots of free time and am not bored.
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01-02-2018, 01:13 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: Green Bay
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01-02-2018, 01:18 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Southern California
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I'm still adjusting, so I voted a little bored, but I think I'm doing OK.
DH retired about four years ago and has really struggled with all of the free time he's had. He loved his work but had to retire for medical reasons. He never really filled in the free time with enough activities to keep him stimulated. Unfortunately he suffers from treatment resistant depression and has essentially been depressed almost the entire four years since he left work. No amount of drugs, therapy, or self help books has helped. He's tried volunteer work and exercise but continues to really struggle with it.
He's probably an outlier for this forum, but it's not been a success story. He's looking for part time work now just to keep himself challenged. But I'm concerned that he's getting worse, not better. And it's taking its toll on both of us.
Sorry to drag down this thread, but it's been a heavy weight on my mind over the past few weeks.
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01-02-2018, 01:30 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: West of the Mississippi
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I'm busy doing what mostly what I want to do rather than being busy doing what others tell me I must do. It doesn't get much better than that. :-)
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01-02-2018, 02:07 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jan 2007
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DH and I just completed our fifth full year of retirement. I am constantly amazed at how quickly it has gone by. Feels like a 1-2 month vacation. I often also feel like I’m not “getting enough done”.
Then I realize we’ve been to Europe three times, taken two 8-9 week trips out west in the RV, two 8 week trips in the eastern US, spent 4 winters in Florida, spent three summers in VA, taken two cruises, married off two kids, gained a new grand baby, buried my mother, got a puppy, bought a second home, significantly decluttered the main house....I’m sure I could easily come up with a few more things.
Time flies when you’re having fun....and yet my biggest fear is it’s flying by TOO quickly! [emoji16]
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01-02-2018, 02:08 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
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That's about where I am with it too.
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