How Did You Retire? Did You Keep Your Home

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  1. Mary Stetler

    Mary Stetler Veteran Member
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    My daughter is now renting my farm. I find I am having trouble doing physical tasks, more and more. I tried to find cleaning help but it did not work out. I guess it is a sign I have to work on my 'core'. Also I am trying to have my husbands cataracts re-installed so he can't see the dust.
     
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  2. Ron Beforee

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    Retired 22 years ago, built a new house .... kinda wish i would have relocated.

    I spent the first 15 years traveling [by motorcycle] was able to see alot of America.

    Then ... arthritis hit ... been stuck at home since. Hard to complain though when I was able to do as i pleased & go where I chose to for all those years.

    Thought about car/truck travel but .... can't sit in either for long , if i do pain sets in, and it hurts like hell to get out.

    Ah yes ... our golden years .... where's the gold ?!
     
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    Over the years, we've now lived in 5 different homes in 4 different towns in two different states. I retired for the third and last time in 2007 in a home we built in 1978. By then, the kids had scattered but we kept the house for 11 more years. In 2018, we sold the place and moved into a carriage house that was behind but attached to one of the kid's homes. Sometime around the 2018 move, I gave up a small piece of retirement become an nonsalaried officer and board member of a 501 C3 corporation. where I perhaps put in several months of work over a year.
     
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  4. Kate Ellery

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    No my hubby retired at 48 years old due to seriously hurting his back that resulted in him have his lower back fused.

    We had to live for 2 years on measly pay out he received before we could look at applying for Centrelink
    payments.

    I’m the meantime he spent most nights sleeping on a mat in the family room to get over the surgery
    and that’s the only relief / sleep he got by laying on a hard surface.

    That was 1998 so he spent time recovering from his back surgery before we sold our home in the city suburbs .
    In 2004 to go traveling in our caravan.

    He had a special mattress made to fit the bed he made a solid base for in the caravan so it suited his back
    I hated the mattress way to hard for me.

    Ive mentioned in the past ,we bought our standard home size block of land right after selling our city home. 2004
    and had this home where we’ve lived ever since built in 2006.

    We live In South Australia me since 1970 …Hubby born SA
     
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  5. Marie Mallery

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    I forgot about this thread, got carried away with vine's I guess.

    If things get too bad ort we both break down at same trime we will move in with one of the kids,probably a daughter,don't want to move to Tx, away from all we know.
     
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