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Originally Posted by dex
I'm coming up on 3 years of ER this year and thinking what might do differently if I (reasonably*) knew then what I know now.
*reasonably does not include the stock market or housing decline.
The answer - nothing
Anyone else have lessons to pass along?
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Coming up on 24 years of ER and with the benefit of hindsight and selective memory to paraphrase the late coach Bear Bryant re linebackers be 'Agile, Mobile and Hostile.' My version - stay loose, cut expenses when required, and don't hesitate to re plan when necessary.
1. I was thrust into ER at 50 versus my planned age 63 via layoff.
2. She wanted no part of moving from Lake Ponchartrain as a jobshopper(aka contract engineer) so radically cut expenses to stay in place.
3. Katrina. Moved 1000 miles inland on a hill.
4. She passed away unexpectedly. Six years later - Romance, marriage at age 70, downsized from his and hers to one house.
5. After 4 years together Wife's older Brother passed unplanned(second heart attack) so jointly owned farm passed into her(now our hands) so this month signed on an Auctioneer/ September date to un own stuff. Some tractors/vehicles had not been started in twenty plus years so hired a local who had worked on the Farm to 'get stuff ready'. Just batteries, fuel filters, lines, etc let alone inventory of 7 buildings is putting a Serious, I mean serious dent in innocent City Boy's former ER lifestyle. Latest word is it's gonna take two Auction's one week apart complete with one or more porta potty's, a food wagon and a couple of extra helpers.
And I thought Katrina was chewy.
heh heh heh - it's good I love to whine and don't take myself too seriously.
In sum the last 23/24 years have not gone at all according to original plan. But we're still in the romance phase and I've passed my first Tractor driving lession
. Curmudgeondom heer I come.
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