Recent content by Retire52

God speed to you. 40 is more than enough time on the chain gang. You reminded me of all the mind numbing emails I had to wade through each day in the office. It was crazy, literally near a hundred each day. Mostly read and forget, but there were nearly always a few doozies that would wreak havoc...

You said it. All the things you mentioned are what makes my new life of the near rich and not so famous, so enjoyable. One factor that has played bigger than I ever suspected was the huge decrease in stress. I started to sleep better and relaxed, unhurried and just felt better physically. No...

A tried and true method to reaching increasing levels of happiness for sure. Subtract the things in your life that makes you less happy. For me and many others, financial freedom will do a lot of heavy lifting in that regard. I'm not too keen on the idea of a purposeful retirement, I just take...

Right life is in part what you make of it. I've enjoyed the path to getting to retirement also, but the last 76 months beat everything prior as an adult, hands down.

Great use of emojis �� I too am a devotee to appreciate e-v-e-r-y single day of retirement. Best life hack of all time.

Great image and I'm in violent agreement with you on that retirement philosophy. I will be pulling for you to break 260.

I am eternally grateful to not be run over again by the "great idea" bus at w*ork. All those new and improved initiatives, optimizations, and reorganizations are in my rear view mirror and quickly receding. Wahoo baby!

I will consider 20 with good health to be a worthy goal for me and my DW. Sorry that you are grappling with that bear. I have made keeping in shape a daily priority, but I know father time wins every time, though i like to make him sweat a little . Congratulations also on your 53 years...

I will try to keep up the pace you are setting :-) what a wonderful race.

I sometimes have fleeting thoughts of returning to w*ork. I've had some job offers, and I would break out into a cold sweat thinking about giving up 40-50 hours/wk serving someone else's priorities. Although, if a great part time opportunity presented itself, I would seriously consider it, and...

And we have a winner! 24 years, and then medicare, nicely done. To think the average American retires when they can finally reach Medicare. Sad for the vast majority of us who would have like to have joined the retired ranks well before that, especially when we have the benefit of living in one...

Wow, that is early. I am happy for you. I originally thought as a naive lieutenant, I could punch out after 20 years on the JOB, but after marriage and 4 kids we wanted to put through college, I made due with 30. No regrets however, enjoyed the last 10 immensely, but not as much as the last 6!

I'm with you on that. Die with zero. In that vein, my DW and I have upped our spending on travel, home improvement spending, and matching our adult children's retirement savings. The greatest gift we can give them after a good education is helping them towards reaching financial freedom we figured.

Hey that's making lemonade out of lemons--congratulations post hurricane. I've also seen some good hard w*rking people never get the chance to enjoy ER bc they either OMY themselves to death, or got surprised by some life tragedy.

We are living similar ER lives I suspect; retired 76 months, in sunny Florida, enjoying the fruits of our labor. Instead of on the pickle ball court though, I'm on a golf course. Often I have to remind my playing partners the same thing after a bad hole, "hey we could be in the office right...