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Retirement is good! (Original Post) lunatica Feb 2020 OP
The only difference is I had to give up cigars. Basic LA Feb 2020 #1
Once you've earned retirement, let your Freak Flag fly. Midnight Writer Feb 2020 #2
I don't go out much lunatica Feb 2020 #3
Ha! I learned to wear one while visiting marlakay Feb 2020 #11
Well I wear a 2XL bra so it's pendulously obvious lunatica Feb 2020 #12
Damn. rownesheck Feb 2020 #4
The thing about retirement... safeinOhio Feb 2020 #5
My husband I spend the first 5 minutes every day trying to figure out what day of the week it is! MLAA Feb 2020 #6
Unleashing the crazy this fall!! ploppy Feb 2020 #7
I'm a year away. If I make it... Harker Feb 2020 #8
I like to think there's Dagstead Bumwood Feb 2020 #9
I can't wait. hamsterjill Feb 2020 #13
Indeed it is. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2020 #10

Midnight Writer

(21,738 posts)
2. Once you've earned retirement, let your Freak Flag fly.
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 06:29 PM
Feb 2020

I've spent enough years doing what other people want me to do. Now I do what I want to do.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
3. I don't go out much
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 06:32 PM
Feb 2020

because I don’t stuff my girls into a bra anymore unless I go out. And then only because I’m polite.

marlakay

(11,447 posts)
11. Ha! I learned to wear one while visiting
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 09:43 PM
Feb 2020

My adult daughters who thought it was disgusting and my boobs are small.

I learned to wear tshirts under shirts sometimes when i go out.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
12. Well I wear a 2XL bra so it's pendulously obvious
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 09:50 PM
Feb 2020

when I’m not wearing a bra. So, yeah, I have to wear a bra when I go out or have people over. What a pain!

MLAA

(17,276 posts)
6. My husband I spend the first 5 minutes every day trying to figure out what day of the week it is!
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 07:46 PM
Feb 2020

And either one of us picks up their cell phone or we say just say what does it matter 😬

Harker

(14,011 posts)
8. I'm a year away. If I make it...
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 08:54 PM
Feb 2020

it'll be like hitting the daily double with a new Democratic (or Independent) prez in office.

Dagstead Bumwood

(3,621 posts)
9. I like to think there's
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 09:16 PM
Feb 2020

a little bit of her in all of us

I have an aunt who is in her early 70s and still working in a factory. She says she doesn't need to, but her kids are grown and she wants to keep busy. So, she works and eight hour shift on her feet five days a week. She also has a taste for the casinos, so I suspect that also factors into to her work ethic.

But, I did not inherit such an ethic. The first minute I can retire, I advise everyone not to be between me and the door. I am dreaming of that day....

hamsterjill

(15,220 posts)
13. I can't wait.
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 01:30 PM
Feb 2020

I'm several years away but literally keep a count down clock! The minute I can do it, I am doing it and never looking back.

First think I'm doing? Throwing the damn alarm clocks out the window.

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