"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

AShearer said:
Well! It's been awhile since I have had time to post anything remotely interesting. I do check things out from time to time. But things are settling now and I'm back if just stopping in. Of course, you all know it's impossible to go backward and try to catch up on this forum. So, just saying hello. I found the whole retirement discussion really interesting. I've been fully retired since 2015. It was a little strange at first, but I like it! My wife and I are on a trip (not a vacation) up the New Jersey coast, through NYC, and out Long Island Sound to Nantucket. Currently in Manasquan, NJ. A month on the boat! It's good for bonding:)

Hello all and I wish you all well. I'll be back! < That could be a promise or a threat. Depends on how you see it. :cool:
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Good to hear from you Alan. Sounds like a good trip. Take care.
 
AShearer said:
Well! It's been awhile since I have had time to post anything remotely interesting. I do check things out from time to time. But things are settling now and I'm back if just stopping in. Of course, you all know it's impossible to go backward and try to catch up on this forum. So, just saying hello. I found the whole retirement discussion really interesting. I've been fully retired since 2015. It was a little strange at first, but I like it! My wife and I are on a trip (not a vacation) up the New Jersey coast, through NYC, and out Long Island Sound to Nantucket. Currently in Manasquan, NJ. A month on the boat! It's good for bonding:)

Hello all and I wish you all well. I'll be back! < That could be a promise or a threat. Depends on how you see it. :cool:
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Looking forward to you being back on a regular basis .

Harry
 
I don’t think I’ll ever stop working, but I will enjoy being able to choose the work more freely, if I get so lucky.
 
My last day in the corporate work force was 1/31/18. I spent 43 years with the company where I retired from. If you count mowing lawns, delivering papers and working in a grocery store I spent over 50 years of my life on the job! I will be 64 in September. My wife and I had already decided that I would retire in 2018 but we hadn't really set a date. That all changed in December of 2017 when my company announced a Voluntary Retirement Program or VRP as they liked to call it. Of course they were certain requirements that you had to meet, of which I was in the top 10 of all those that were eligible. I bumped in to one of the people I used to work around a month back. She asked me if I was getting used to being retired. She said that she had heard that it was hard to get used to. I told her she was exactly right that it was hard to get used to! I retired on Wednesday and I told her that it took me at least two days to get used to it!!! :eek: All I can say is "Try it you'll like it!" :D
 
Wurrwulf said:
Congrats to all y'all old farts that are retired! :p:D

I started contributing to my retirement IRA about 5 years too late (at 25 years old), but I'm hoping to be retired in 30 years at age 60. My father-in-law semi-retired at 60, and I'm so, so jealous of the month-long vacations he takes.
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That's not too late. I started at age 30 with a deferment from my paycheck into the company I was working for retirement fund. It was with Fidelity, and in time it really grew. In thirty years it just kept on multiplying. Plus I was a bit frugal anyway, and was careful with my money. By the time I was retirement age, it had become a very nice nest egg. Just don't live beyond your means and spend what you really don't have to spend. Too many people waste a lot of dough on status stuff like expensive cars that are really out of their tax bracket and ten years later ain't worth much at all. Karen and I stayed with compact cars until we really needed the mini van when the third kid arrived. We were planing for our retirement when the kids were still in grade school. Long range planing pays off.
 
That post count and join date restriction on the forum knife is going to cause some tears.

On the topic of living within my means, it's going to be a hard sell to myself to buy one of those. That's the hard part about saving - there are lots of little expenses that individually are not much but they add up. You have to be ruthless with yourself. I wish I could get my wife in the same mindset.
 
Old Engineer said:
Looking forward to you being back on a regular basis .

Harry
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Thanks Harry. I’m slowly working my way back. Been charting our course in the evenings, then piloting the boat 6-8 hours during the day. Right now, we’re in Port Jefferson NY on Long Island. Headed to Mystic CT tomorrow. Then Bristol RI for two days. Home of the oldest 4th of July parade in the country (supposedly). Running a 34 foot cruiser in 5-7 foot seas on wednesday was fun:););) but its all settled down for now.
 
Well, since everyone has a date in mind I better choose one. Hmmm, lets say 7/1/2052. Geez I got a looong way to go! :(
 
JaxBaron said:
Well, since everyone has a date in mind I better choose one. Hmmm, lets say 7/1/2052. Geez I got a looong way to go! :(
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Jax, look at me. Here's the gospel truth; the time passes so fast it gets scary as you get older. Start saving up and planning now because before you know, 10 years has gone by, then you blink and another ten years goes by. Looking back on life from the standpoint of an old man, I can tell you that it's weird how much times passes soooo fast before you know. It seems like just last week that Karen and I were struggling young parents of three little kids, and now we're grandparents.

Make the most of what time you have and plan. carefully. There's no Mulligans in life and you can't call a 'do over' at age 50. Life favors the prepared. Start NOW!
 
jackknife said:
Jax, look at me. Here's the gospel truth; the time passes so fast it gets scary as you get older. Start saving up and planning now because before you know, 10 years has gone by, then you blink and another ten years goes by. Looking back on life from the standpoint of an old man, I can tell you that it's weird how much times passes soooo fast before you know. It seems like just last week that Karen and I were struggling young parents of three little kids, and now we're grandparents.

Make the most of what time you have and plan. carefully. There's no Mulligans in life and you can't call a 'do over' at age 50. Life favors the prepared. Start NOW!
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Truer words were never spoke.
 
jackknife said:
Jax, look at me. Here's the gospel truth; the time passes so fast it gets scary as you get older. Start saving up and planning now because before you know, 10 years has gone by, then you blink and another ten years goes by. Looking back on life from the standpoint of an old man, I can tell you that it's weird how much times passes soooo fast before you know. It seems like just last week that Karen and I were struggling young parents of three little kids, and now we're grandparents.

Make the most of what time you have and plan. carefully. There's no Mulligans in life and you can't call a 'do over' at age 50. Life favors the prepared. Start NOW!
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Thank you for sharing your wisdom/ experience.
 
"The trick is, to live your days
as if each one may be your last
(for they go fast, and young men lose their lives
in strange and unimaginable ways)
but at the same time, plan long range
(for they go slow; if you survive
the shattered windshield and the bursting shell
you will arrive
at our approximation here below
of heaven or hell)..." by Peter Meinke - Advice To My Son
 
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