Retirement now visible on the horizon!

[rosarugosa]

Congratulations, Happystuff! I recall that I did a fair bit of decluttering when I first retired, especially since I retired in the winter.

I am very excited that my sister is going to retire on 7/3! I had been urging her to seriously consider it because she is so very miserable in her job. She is 62, and seemed stuck on the idea that she could not possibly retire before age 65. Well she has made a lot of financial mis-steps in her life, but one thing she did right was to keep putting a good amount of $$ into her retirement plans at work, and she is very well compensated. We met with her financial advisors a few weeks ago, and they said there is no reason for her not to retire right now. I've watched her go from trepidation to near euphoria in the past few weeks. It's a wonderful thing!

[happystuff]

Congrats to your sister, rr! And thank you and early morning for the well-wished.

[chrisgermany]

Enjoy!
Isn't it great when a plan works out well?

[iris lilies]

Rosa, that’s good news about your sister. My brother is 61 and he’s retiring this year so I’m glad he’s getting out of his rat race.

I’m so, so glad I retired when I did. And I could’ve even retired earlier, but without the luxury of spending whatever money I want to spend whenever I want to spend it. As it is, I retired when I was 60. It’ll be 10 years this month since retirement and I am so so glad that I didn’t have to go through Covid while employed. And then all the woke nonsense that my library would have of course taken up because that’s what we must do. And then, this past winter was so crazy with the bad weather, all I did it seemed was schedule meetings, reschedule meetings, cancel meetings around weather so I can’t imagine trying to get to work every day.