It wasn't such a good idea.............

fuzzybuddy

fuzzybuddy

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Since you are in this group, you've rung in a lot of New Years. Is there something that you did, when you were a lot younger, that now you think wasn't such a good idea?
This is what I mean.
When I bought my 1 and a third acre, 25 years ago. It was out in nowhere. It took me an hour to drive to work. I was at the end of a cul de sac, surrounded by forest. But now, I'm 71, disabled, out in the middle of no where, surrounded by forest. Only have two neighbors. It takes me 45 minutes to drive to the MDs.
 

I have no significant regrets. But if I could live twice, and was cognitive of it, I'd do absolutely everything differently just for the experience. So, I'd finish college, pursue a life-time career and stick with it, never marry or have kids, get high a lot, eat like a glutton, ALWAYS speak my mind...basically a life without filters.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Since you are in this group, you've rung in a lot of New Years. Is there something that you did, when you were a lot younger, that now you think wasn't such a good idea?
This is what I mean.
When I bought my 1 and a third acre, 25 years ago. It was out in nowhere. It took me an hour to drive to work. I was at the end of a cul de sac, surrounded by forest. But now, I'm 71, disabled, out in the middle of no where, surrounded by forest. Only have two neighbors. It takes me 45 minutes to drive to the MDs.
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Fuzzy, could you sell and move to a more populated place? Sometimes it's not such a bad deal to swap extreme seclusion for convenience and safety.
 

fuzzybuddy said:
Since you are in this group, you've rung in a lot of New Years. Is there something that you did, when you were a lot younger, that now you think wasn't such a good idea?
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Yes. Should not have said that second I DO. My own "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" cost me five years and thousands of $$$ but was a good learning experience.
 
No significant regrets.

I have some concerns about my future and how best to handle things on my own but the only thing any of us can do is a little planning and preparation to make our final victory lap as comfortable as possible!

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I wish I would have finished college, instead I got married and had 2 wonderful children. Of course had I graduated from the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) I would not have my great kids.

It all worked out for the best. :)
 
Fuzzybuddy ---you drove an hour to work ? Here I was just complaining that I had to drive 25 miles one way to visit my friend. I have a list of regrets , nothing too earth shattering ,though.... just alot of little things I could have done differently. Oh well , I can't cry over spilled milk :p .
 
No regrets. Most everything worked out as planned. Got my BS degree, got married, had my kids, had a satisfying

career, planned for my retirement and here I am enjoying life.
 
I wish I would have spent more time playing with my kids then worrying about how clean the house was. They were very competitive as children and back then I didn't know how to handle that. Today they are not close at all and I'll forever feel responsible for that even though as individuals they turned out fine.
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
I wish I would have spent more time playing with my kids then worrying about how clean the house was. They were very competitive as children and back then I didn't know how to handle that. Today they are not close at all and I'll forever feel responsible for that even though as individuals they turned out fine.
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You're being too hard on yourself. "They were very competitive..." ...and they still are. Mine, too. I have this little fantasy where, when my 2 sons get to be about my age they grow close. Or at least closer. Probably not going to happen. They get along fine when they're at the same Christmas dinner and such, but they barely keep in touch with each other...only when they have to. And they live in the same city.
 
I may have made a couple of sketchy decisions along the way but nothing earth shattering......all in all I'm pretty happy about the way things turned out in my life.
 
My moving to the sticks is not something I regret. I wasn't old and infirm when I bought the place. I enjoyed it. But I didn't think ahead enough. I can still drive. Strangely, the nerves to my "driving" leg muscles are intact. I have no problem driving. It must scare the hell out of people to see this crippled up old geezer crawl into a car and drive off.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
When I bought my 1 and a third acre, 25 years ago. It was out in nowhere. It took me an hour to drive to work. I was at the end of a cul de sac, surrounded by forest. But now, I'm 71, disabled, out in the middle of no where, surrounded by forest. Only have two neighbors. It takes me 45 minutes to drive to the MDs.
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I did a similar thing some years ago but when I retired at 67, I decided to move to town to be close to medical facilities and shopping. We found our perfect retirement home, a mobile home in a well managed Senior mobile home park on the outskirts of town, no stairs and a tiny yard that requires little maintenance. The place in the country was a good move then and this place is the right move now.

Yeah, I've made a lot of bonehead moves in life, it,s called "adventure" but I don't regret any of them
 
The only thing I can think of that I regret was not marrying my husband a year earlier. Right after we made our plans to get married my Husband to be got drafted. If we had been married he wouldn't have had to get drafted. We got married when he was on leave, so the first few years of my marriage I was constantly worried about him. Thankfully all turned out well, but I sure would have loved not worrying .
 
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