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1. Retired, fire investigator 2. 57 now, retired at 55 3. Married, three kids, 2 grandkids 4. Born in TX and still here! 5. Daily

SteveR, I loved your list. I could put a check mark by almost all of them and claimed them as mine, but you said it so much better than I could have done. Congratulations on your retirement! I know from your list that you are going to sail into the next portion of your life and not look back to...

Just North of Dallas here. Hate the place (D), but can't think of anywhere I would like better!

I am lucky to be married to my best friend. Can't imagine living without him.

I purchased a Roomba and a Scooba last year. I love my Roomba and use it about twice a week on all my tile floors. His name is Robbie. The scooba was a different story. I have never been to happy with the scooba. It left to much water on the floors and didn't seem to clean as well as I thought...

My advice to you would be to live in the smaller country house for a period of time and make sure that you like living in the country setting before you tear it down and rebuild. My husband and I had a city house and a lake house during the last few years that we worked. We loved our time at...

I agree with stargazer8. And I have to say, even though I will be blasted for it. If I were the mother, I too would fight to keep this guy from my daughter. Any father who can't control himself any better than that and would treat his daughter with such contempt I would fight to keep him away...

I fully understand what you are going thru. I retired two years ago after twenty seven years in the same organization. Although it was very stressfull (law enforcement), I loved the work I did. My husband was ready to retire and all things considered it was the right time for me to leave as...

Where I worked prior to retirement the long standing tradition was that the person celebrating their birthday brought cake for the their co-workers. This was a way to announce that it was your birthday. Then everyone would either take the person to lunch or happy hour.

About 3% for me.

pasttense, I wasn't aware that furniture depreciates. Ours always makes it from our house to the kids house, and they seem to think its the greatest. That's because the price is always right for them. The price being FREE.

We notice on our scouting trips through the local furniture stores that it was difficult sometimes to find out who made a piece or what the style was called. In days past you would always hear the merits of the brand name from the sales staff. You would hear how popular the line was, etc. Now...

My husband and I bought and furnished a new home this year. All of our old stuff was definitely not right for the new house. I called it "Lakehouse rustic". I took a tip from a friend and found a place on line that deals with the NC furniture companies. I placed two large orders and saved about...

I am a fifth generation Texan and you couldn't get me to this place on a bet. The big bend area is wonderful for the nature lovers, but I can't see mom, pop, and their 2.5 kids taking the SUV out there for a three night stay at Disney Over the Bend. It's a long way from no where. And there...

REWahoo, I do get a chuckle out of your rattlesnake and scorpian reminders. Even the gator news and maybe an occasisional Eboli flash, but some of whitesticks comments hit to close to home! Like the watering the foundation and water restrictions. Of course, the water restrictions are the result...

whitestick, You sure make life in Texas sound horrible. You beat REWahoo hands down. One wonders why you are still here. There has got to be something that is good about your home state. Or are you just trying to discourage all those others from migrating to the Lone Star State? I live in the...

My husband and I were on the Grand Princess last month. We had a balcony on the back and watched the wake every night. It was so quiet that we could have both jumped and no one would have missed us until we got back to Galveston. We talked about the fact that that would be a good ending to a...

REWahoo, The bluebonnets are wonderful. Thanks for sharing. We aren't seeing them in North Texas yet. Give us a week or so. We are still into drought conditions in these parts do they may not be as plentiful this year. Bt the way thats not a weird place to frenquent, but thanks again for sharing!

My husband and I are making it quiet nicely on my pension (government, municipal), and his SS. These total about 80 percent of what we were bringing home as working slobs. During our 15 years of marriage prior to retirement we were able to save a substantial amount. After two years of retirement...

Consider this one vote for "vacation mode".

Sheryl, Congrats on the baby! We have a fifteen year old schnauzer who is really not much fun any more. She mostly sleeps. It will break our hearts when we loose her. She has been a big part of our lives. I have always had dogs, but when our Tootie is gone, we aren't planning on having...

Congratulations Goonie! My retirement started on April 5th 2005, so two years down, and life is good. I wouldn't go back if they paid me. Oops, they pay me to be retired!

We moved into a new neighborhood last year. All the houses were completed and sold within a few months. I remember checking out the houses around ours during construction. You know checking on the extras that the new neighbors were putting in and such. I remember checking out the house several...

My husband and I had a lakehouse for five years while we were still working. We bought it as a second home and intended to make it our retirement home. Our primary residence was in a burb of Dallas and the lakehouse was on a large lake about 60 miles away. We kept both houses for only 2 years...

My husband and I just got back (two weeks ago) from a cruise that stopped in Roatan. We took a snorkle trip to Cay Calker for the day. It was the most amazing snorkle trip I have ever done. We saw an amazing number of fish and a huge moray eel. I was a diver in my past life (really my past...