Re: How much $ to retire
[Re: hrdtoflw]
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09/02/18 06:55 AM
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I had Know idea that people retire in there 50’s!! Sounds like a good plan to me. It must be a regional and a cultural thing?? Around here no one retires. Dad worked from 4am-9pm yesterday, he’ll be 70 in November. My FNL is 68 and still works sunrise to sunset. Both work 7 days a week. Sunday’s are short so everyone can get to church.
Good for you guys. Play hard!!!!
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Re: How much $ to retire
[Re: hrdtoflw]
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09/02/18 09:42 AM
09/02/18 09:42 AM
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Yep..I see retired people all the time on the road in their late model 2500 and 3500 pick-ups and their very,very nice pull trailers or fifth wheels. AND LOVING IT..
I can catch them here...I can catch them ANYWHERE
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Re: How much $ to retire
[Re: hrdtoflw]
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09/02/18 10:07 AM
09/02/18 10:07 AM
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Yep..I even see and talk to all kinds of people that have living quarter horse trailers..These are some extremely nice horse trailers and living quarters. Seems like they can live off grid easily.
I can catch them here...I can catch them ANYWHERE
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Re: How much $ to retire
[Re: hrdtoflw]
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09/02/18 10:25 AM
09/02/18 10:25 AM
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hrdtoflw
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A guy that works for the same contractor that I do, is 68, and plans to retire at 72. He has no kid, no wife, and lots of money. This guy could be travelling the world, but chooses to keep going to work. I just don't get it. My wife watched her parents struggle during retirement, and now she's scared that could happen to us. Everything we will own at retirement will be paid off, and I will have a good pension. We also have been putting money into stock ( company I work for ) for a long time. That has grown big time, as our company grows. I think we will survive. As long as the wife is happy, and I have some fuel for the boat, we'll be good. Lol
If your mind draws a blank, turn off the sound, because ya can't learn a thing if you're doin all the talkin
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Re: How much $ to retire
[Re: hrdtoflw]
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09/02/18 10:34 AM
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Every day is like a Saturday when you hang it up. I really enjoy seeing Monday morning every week....all the amateur play babies go back to work and leave the woods and waters to us pros who really know how to have fun.
I trapped hard in my younger days, but had to hang it up when my job had me working 5 am to 4:30 am for 30 years. All 300 traps hung for years in the shed, dyed and waxed, ready to be called back to active duty. When I retired in the summer of 2013, the first job for me was to get those traps ready for that fall’s season.
Trapping had changed dramatically since I quit many years before....new animals like fisher and coyotes. New methods and gear....cable stakes, trapper caps, wax dirt, cable restraints, etc. I had to relearn the whole sport over again.
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Re: How much $ to retire
[Re: kytrapper]
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09/02/18 10:41 AM
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And, just because you retire that doesn’t mean to become lethargic and watch soap operas. I’ve talked to 20 people or so that live locally and not one has wished they kept working. I’ve driven the same road 11 miles each way for going on forty years and I want to drive the roads I want to instead of have to for a few years. Its funny you said that kytrapper, Momma always used to joke that she wanted to retire so she could sit around all day and eat bonbons and watch soap operas.
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Re: How much $ to retire
[Re: hrdtoflw]
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09/02/18 12:32 PM
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At 62, am retiring this year. Never made $48,000 dollars so guess I'm below average, however lived within what I made. My out is no debt, there are still monthly bills though, you just got to figure those up. My financial guy says I'm good to go, and I trust him. Told my boys growing up, it's not always what you make but what you spend, when making a purchase ask yourself and be honest do I need it or want it? I have options to generate income if need be or want to, I am not able to generate more time. Stay healthy and in shape as best you can, they kind of go together, make sure you have enough traps and gas money for your truck. People ask me if I make money trapping, my usual reply is, just try and cut my losses. I knew or know of to many people that did not get a chance to retire, and there are those that have nothing to retire to.
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Re: How much $ to retire
[Re: Rat Masterson]
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09/02/18 05:23 PM
09/02/18 05:23 PM
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tbn, if you don't pay for nursing home care who does? Exactly! It gets old hearing about how the home "takes" everything one works for. If people don't like it they should take a swan dive.
"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon". Milton Friedman.
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Re: How much $ to retire
[Re: hrdtoflw]
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09/02/18 06:23 PM
09/02/18 06:23 PM
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Steven 49er
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What does working in the medical profession have to do with personal responsibility?
"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon". Milton Friedman.
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Re: How much $ to retire
[Re: hrdtoflw]
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09/02/18 06:47 PM
09/02/18 06:47 PM
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If you love your job and you are happy work till you drop. What I see in some that I know that still work into their 60's and 70's is that they have nothing but work. They don't have a hobby and all they know is how to work and save money. Nothing wrong with that life.
For me I want to do other things and explore life after working for 40 years. The stress of the work place can be a bad thing and a killer for a person. It is amazing what retirement can do for one's health.
When people retire they need to retire too something just not retire. If you don't have a plan it might not be for you.
Give me a fish, I will eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I will eat for a lifetime
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