steady saver
Recycles dryer sheets
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Woo hoo!!!
DH's last day was last Thursday. But with the weekend feeling like any other weekend, today is the first Monday morning of not firing up the computer and it feels GREAT!!! While I closed my part-time practice last year, I still was doing some work up until the pandemic hit full force. So today feels like the first day of true retirement for both of us.
It feels SO good. The gift of time is priceless.
We do a lot together anyway and Covid has made that more true than ever. We talked ahead of time about how we're going to navigate things so we don't feel compelled to check in with each other/do everything together 24/7. I had an early lunch outside by myself so I'm optimistic, ha ha.
Retiring during a pandemic is going to feel different for different folks, I'm sure. For us, it was very stressful initially. DH had planned to retire this spring but we put everything on hold when the market dropped. We didn't sell anything, just held on tight and, thanks to good advice here, just walked away from it and focused on other things. In the end, he was offered a package so that was a plus he didn't have pre-Covid. DH went through a lot of personal uncertainty about retiring towards the end, which surprised him. And there were no office parties, etc. which marks that rite of passage and that in normal times we take for granted.
All that said, we are both PUMPED!!! It is a very ordinary day and we are both grateful for being able to move at whatever speed we want to.
I think we're going to love this new life...
DH's last day was last Thursday. But with the weekend feeling like any other weekend, today is the first Monday morning of not firing up the computer and it feels GREAT!!! While I closed my part-time practice last year, I still was doing some work up until the pandemic hit full force. So today feels like the first day of true retirement for both of us.
It feels SO good. The gift of time is priceless.
We do a lot together anyway and Covid has made that more true than ever. We talked ahead of time about how we're going to navigate things so we don't feel compelled to check in with each other/do everything together 24/7. I had an early lunch outside by myself so I'm optimistic, ha ha.
Retiring during a pandemic is going to feel different for different folks, I'm sure. For us, it was very stressful initially. DH had planned to retire this spring but we put everything on hold when the market dropped. We didn't sell anything, just held on tight and, thanks to good advice here, just walked away from it and focused on other things. In the end, he was offered a package so that was a plus he didn't have pre-Covid. DH went through a lot of personal uncertainty about retiring towards the end, which surprised him. And there were no office parties, etc. which marks that rite of passage and that in normal times we take for granted.
All that said, we are both PUMPED!!! It is a very ordinary day and we are both grateful for being able to move at whatever speed we want to.
I think we're going to love this new life...