65, in the "home stretch", need those final tips!!

[chic]

Hello and welcome from chic.

 

[nan]

Welcome to the forum eddieo45

 

[PeppermintPatty]

 

[helenbacque]

Welcome from Florida, Eddie. Love your avatar. It was called spider and essential during the olden days of the 45s, as I recall.

 

[davey]

you'll have to get used to all the different languages but after that fine - bonjour ; kung heh fat choi ; gooday from wa etc etc

 

[RadishRose]

 

[SeaBreeze]

 

[eddieo45]

Have you retired yet or still planning? I've done a few different things in my life some of them quite well. But at 71 I do feel like being retired is what I have most excelled at. My new RL friend and dog sitter feels the same and she is in her sixties. My wife is 81 and still loves to do her art work along with the office work that entails. But attending to her failing physiology is her full time job. Ma

Make yourself to home!

Still planning; makes no sense to collect SS or disperse IRA/401K funds until my wife also retires, lest I remain in a very high tax bracket. What's an "RL friend"?

 

[MarkD]

Still planning; makes no sense to collect SS or disperse IRA/401K funds until my wife also retires, lest I remain in a very high tax bracket. What's an "RL friend"?

"Real Life". Sounds like you are well set to retire when she is able to join you. What you choose to do with your time will need to suit you but things I've found I like are reading good books (especially fiction), walks in nature with my wife and dogs, making my garden and chatting with friends. We traveled a lot before but with the pandemic and my wife's medical vulnerability we've been laying low. Do it while you can if you have that bent.

 

[chic]

"Real Life". Sounds like you are well set to retire when she is able to join you. What you choose to do with your time will need to suit you but things I've found I like are reading good books (especially fiction), walks in nature with my wife and dogs, making my garden and chatting with friends. We traveled a lot before but with the pandemic and my wife's medical vulnerability we've been laying low. Do it while you can if you have that bent.

It does mean real life.