Recent content by Grigori

Nice thread ! Very encouraging to see we are all in the same boat. I’m not feeling cranky yet at 64 ! I’ve noticed changes since my late 50s. I had trouble turning my head to see the waves I was trying to catch surfing in Mexico last December. Next time I go I’ll. Bet I can enjoy the waves...

Bought a Subaru Outback Limited for $33,000 this year. Seemed like a huge splurge, but the investment portfolio didn't even feel it. The hole is gone, and the portfolio is even bigger. So, I'm looking at a 3rd vacation. Get a home away place in Jaco, Costa Rica so we can fly in, surf, and...

My wife likes to have Fox News on. I prefer to ignore it and instead read a high quality classic novel or non fiction book. Quiet seems good in retirement. The news is noise - trying to grab my attention with the disaster or political mistake du jour. It’s a time waster and too much leaves a...

Thanks to all you folks, this thread helped me save about $5200 off MSRP on a new car! And it made it a lot less painful than it has been for me in the past. Maybe I should send you the $5200 in consulting fees? Ha! Ha! I have been retired for 3 ½ years, spending 1.5% of portfolio a year...

COBRA to Individual HI GAP I just found an unexpected health insurance gap when I applied for an individual health insurance policy this week. If someone has other ideas, let me know, but the only way I found to fill my gap was to buy short term insurance. Thanks, Greg * My COBRA...

I am an INFP, retired for nearly 11 months. I'm enjoying most of the time alone. Catching up on the reading I always wanted to do. However, there are some times when I just feel strange and out of sorts to be home alone on a weekday afternoon. Some of it is about unwanted solitude...

I've been there to several times. Laid off from big oil. In fact I was just let go in December. I received a generous layoff package of 10 months pay for my four years of engineering work, I'm paying COBRA, I'm getting unemployment of about $450 per week. My company just had a mass layoff...

Congratulations on planning your affairs so that you can pull the plug at age 49! I think you'll be very glad in the long run that you are able to enjoy the years in early retirement while you are much younger and healthier than most people. At 49, you probably don't have many of the aches...

Thanks for the perspective. Being just 3 months into FIRE I'm at the very first part of the evolution you talked about. I feel like I'm groping around trying different things. Indeed, as you said, there is euphoria and elation, and a question of "NOW WHAT?"

gvm

We have some of that navelgazing too. With all our time freed up, there still is time to do all the things that we could do or might enjoy. It seems like we have endless choices now, but like the kid in the candy factory, we want it all now, but we've got to decide among a few things that...

No snow down here in Houston! Went to yoga class, did some meditation, went to the gym and listen to a CD book , and then the Starbucks to read some of She Comes First. I'm getting ready to try some recipes in the kitchen. Then watch some episodes of breaking bad with my wife.

Congratulations Ally !

Well, I guess they could keep working you 'till you dropped. Then, for sure, you wouldn't be an early retiree. Again, congratulations ! I'm happy for you. :dance:

Congratulations ! You'll have a good recommendation, or connection if you want w*rk in the future on some basis.