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08-09-2019, 02:35 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Rio Grande Valley
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Originally Posted by bmcgonig
Well done. What a dream retirement. Hope the keto gets you to 100!
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LOL! That sounds pretty long to me!
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08-09-2019, 03:09 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2015
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Congrats! I'm jealous, though, since you beat our ER age by several years. Nice!
Interesting to see how your habits and hobbies have evolved in the decades of retirement. Do you still sail??
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08-09-2019, 03:29 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by FreeBear
Congrats! I'm jealous, though, since you beat our ER age by several years. Nice!
Interesting to see how your habits and hobbies have evolved in the decades of retirement. Do you still sail??
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No. Once we started traveling extensively we used our sailboat very little, and eventually sold it. We enjoyed it, but the huge stress relief and escape it gave us was no longer needed.......
We assumed we’d go sailboat cruising and bare boating in the Caribbean, but that never happened. Other things became higher priority.
Ultimately our hobbies completely changed during the first couple of years after retiring. I’m glad we gave ourselves time to experiment.
But I would still be delighted to crew on anybody’s sailboat! I do love being on the water.
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08-09-2019, 05:22 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Location: San Francisco
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Congrats Audrey!  20 years retired + still early retired is a cool milestone.
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08-09-2019, 05:59 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: Northern Virginia
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Enjoyed the post!
Congrats.
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08-09-2019, 06:39 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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Congrats. What a great retirement. Enjoy your posts also.
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08-09-2019, 06:51 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Denver
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Congratulations!
Your explanations of how you manage withdrawals has been very helpful to me over the years. Thank you.
I'm the same age as you - and I find that now, when we saw we're retired, people's eyes don't bug out as far as they did 11 years ago.
Did you build a website to share your photographs?
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08-09-2019, 07:00 PM
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Location: Northern Illinois
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Congrats! 20 retired years is quite a milestone!
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08-09-2019, 07:24 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: Rio Grande Valley
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Originally Posted by walkinwood
Congratulations!
Your explanations of how you manage withdrawals has been very helpful to me over the years. Thank you.
I'm the same age as you - and I find that now, when we saw we're retired, people's eyes don't bug out as far as they did 11 years ago.
Did you build a website to share your photographs?
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Not anymore on the website.
We don’t even get raised eyebrows anymore, LOL! No longer a problem!
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08-09-2019, 07:34 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: May 2011
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Congratulations! Thanks for being such a good resource and inspiration for those wanting to retire early. Hope you have many, many more years of happy retirement!
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08-09-2019, 07:50 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Good for you!
I'mma gonna have me a boat soon. Just a little putt putt on the Delta. Do me some fishing.
That will be boat #5 and me 5 years retired.
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08-09-2019, 08:11 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jan 2017
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You're one of my favorite posters here Audrey. I learned a lot and was able to retire early at 58 y.o. Wife will be retiring next year at 61 y.o.
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08-09-2019, 08:36 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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congratulations Audrey - as a relatively recent joiner (and yet to retire) I am going to have to go through your past posts and pick up some pointers!
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08-09-2019, 09:11 PM
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Location: Bay Area
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Congrats, audreyh1! I've enjoyed your posts.
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08-09-2019, 10:26 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Congrats, Audrey! I have nothing but respect (and a little envy) for someone who retired at an age younger than me (45) and who has been out for longer than me (nearly 11 years)!
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08-09-2019, 10:38 PM
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14-yrs for me on august 11th.
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08-09-2019, 10:39 PM
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Location: Chicagoland
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Congratulations. Very inspiring. Thank you for posting this.
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08-09-2019, 11:41 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Portland
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Well done, Audrey! You sure are living the dream. No wonder your posts are so interesting and insightful. Thanks for taking the time to share with us.
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08-10-2019, 12:25 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: London/UK (dual US/UK citizen)
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Congratulations. As a 59-yr old too I tip my hat on your being 13 years my senior in FIRE. I just caught up with your well written „how I did it“ post. Is it right to assume, given the great state of the markets over the years, that your withdrawal percentage annually has stayed constant or even reduced? Or did you increase spending at all?
Long may you enjoy!
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08-10-2019, 01:48 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2016
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Congratulations Audrey! I also didn’t know how early you were able to retire. What a great life you’ve enjoyed since your ER. Best wishes for many more to come.
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