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11-29-2008, 12:14 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: East Nowhere, 43N Latitude, NY
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Favorite FIRE One-Liners
yet another silly but hopefully fun thread...
what are you favorite FIRE sayings, and how long are you FIREd?
Full permission to borrow my one-liners is granted if I can borrow some of yours. 
"I don't want to and I don't have to"
"I'm FIREd and i'm too lazy to...[fill in the blank]"
"I've resigned myself to being FIREd."
[literally, i resigned using FERS MRA+10 deferred retirement rules]
FIRE date: April 2007
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11-29-2008, 12:25 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Kansas City
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I was unemployed until my brain decided I was ER'd. 1993.
heh heh heh -  All praise to cheap bastardhood and the no. 2 pencil which I used to calculate my FI.
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11-29-2008, 12:39 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2005
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I am FIREd and do whatever I want!
I don't know how I had time to work. (This is really true. We are watching our almost 5 month old granddaughter and I asked my DH how did we ever work and rear 2 children. I was off work for 6 weeks for my DS and 3 mos for my DD and worked full-time. I truly can't remember how we managed to do everything that needed to get done.)
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11-29-2008, 12:53 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Nov 2007
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Three variations on the same theme:
1. I don't have to do that any more.
2. Nope: don't wanna.
3. I'm doing it because I want to do it, not because I have to.
Enjoy your day at w*rk (snicker...).
Well now, what are we going to do this fine day?
Sure, I've got time for another cup...
FIRE'd since 2001
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Those who were seen dancing were thought to be crazy by those who could not hear the music. Friedrich Nietzsche.
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11-29-2008, 01:52 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Aug 2006
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"I'd rather sell a kidney than go back to work."
"Because I don't have to."
"Work is selling your time to get money to buy stuff; I have bought back my time."
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11-29-2008, 02:06 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
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Location: Oahu
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1. But-- but-- but what will you DO all day?!?
2. Early retirement is my avocation!
3. Thank God it's Monday!
4. Life is good.
5. I'm retired Navy. Submarines.
6. On very quiet days spouse and I will exchange comments like "Settle down and try to pace yourself", "Oh, the stress", or "Are you feeling bored & unfulfilled yet?" We're as yet unable to share these with neighbors, relatives, or shipmates.
June 2002.
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11-29-2008, 02:09 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Good idea - how about:
This retirement stuff isn't easy - I don't get any holidays or vacation time.
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11-29-2008, 02:29 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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I've finally found something that I'm good at. 
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11-29-2008, 02:45 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: North-Central Illinois
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 Quote:
Originally Posted by Dreamer
I don't know how I had time to work.
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That's my #1 favorite!
Plus:
I'm just a poor old retired guy, on a fixed income......and it's fixed things so well that I'll never have to work again!
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11-29-2008, 04:23 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Collin County, TX
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"Oh, I guess I can figure out something to do with my time."
FIRE'd 1998...
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There's no need to complicate, our time is short..
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11-29-2008, 04:27 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Sarasota,fl.
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I'm retired so why do I still have to do housework ?
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11-29-2008, 04:32 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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The young ladies who cut my hair. Whadddaaaya do all day. Still my favorite line. Its fun being creative with them in what I do 
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11-29-2008, 05:20 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: Collin County, TX
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I bet they enjoy every story!
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There's no need to complicate, our time is short..
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11-29-2008, 05:31 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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At least I get amusement out of it 
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11-29-2008, 08:11 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Indianapolis
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"Before you can cross the bridge, you must pay the toll"
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11-29-2008, 08:37 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Location: Los Angeles area
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--if the other person is an a***ole
them: so what do you do for a living ?
me: I retired from programming a couple years ago
them: aren't you too young to be retired ?
me: no one is too young to retire, only too poor
--otherwise
last line changes to -
me: no, I learned to spend less than I made, and to invest. not really that difficult.
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11-29-2008, 11:39 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 927
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Seen on a tee shirt: Retired. This is as dressed up as I get.
Another tee shirt: Retired. Know everything, and have all day to tell it to you.
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11-30-2008, 12:15 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Why the hell did I spend so much money during my w**king years on neckties? Damn, I have a s**tload of them in the closet.
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx
In dire need of: faster horses, younger woman, older whiskey, more money.
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11-30-2008, 05:49 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Fort Collins, CO
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Comment: "You're too young to be retired."
Answer: "Hmm, they never told me there was an age requirement."
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"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis” Margaret Bonnano
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11-30-2008, 11:13 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.
Got this one from Calvin and Hobbes many years ago:
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want."
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"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement." - Anonymous (not Will Rogers or Sam Clemens)
DW and I - FIREd at 50 (7/06), living off assets
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