AnIntentionalRoad
Recycles dryer sheets
Fantastic thread!
Retired 25 months. My biggest surprised has been how fast days go by in retirement! When I was working, the days and weeks seemed to drag on and on... Now, I barely have enough hours in a day and days in a week to do, well you know, "nothing"!
I like how you encourage us do some math to keep our minds sharp.
Ms G retired 6 months before me, I have been retired for 2430 days. If we both left the train station in opposite directions who would get home first.
truenorth418 said:I hate to say it but I was surprised at how lazy I have become in retirement. Of the long list of projects and to-do's I had compiled, many are untouched after almost a full year.
For the folks here who have already retired, what was the one (or more) thing that happened after you retired that surprised you the most or you did not expect? Can be related to any area of your life (finances, health, family, hobbies, personal growth, etc) and can be positive, negative, or neutral.
I hate to say it but I was surprised at how lazy I have become in retirement. Of the long list of projects and to-do's I had compiled, many are untouched after almost a full year.
I want to rephrase for my own situation. Everybody always told me I was good for nothing.No surprises here. I knew I was good at doing nothing.
Another surprise: how long it takes to completely de-stress and kick back.
I hate to say it but I was surprised at how lazy I have become in retirement. Of the long list of projects and to-do's I had compiled, many are untouched after almost a full year.
I'd say this is it for me too. It's been a year and a half for me. My list wasn't that long, but mostly I wanted to go through each room in the house and organize it, since I never really did that when I moved in and lived here for only parts of each year unless a couple years before ER.I hate to say it but I was surprised at how lazy I have become in retirement. Of the long list of projects and to-do's I had compiled, many are untouched after almost a full year.