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I plan to volunteer at a hospice maybe
1-2x month and relax the rest of the time.
Volunteer at a food bank, offer to teach classes on English as second language, read those books you didn’t have time to read.
I can’t wait to retire! Enjoy!
I am busy all day long; not sure how I worked. I have sewing/quilting as a hobby so I always have something to do. I am at home more because of Covid but I do most of our household shopping since my husband is still working.
If you've been working FT all these years, there are probably tons of things to work on around the house, too. Clear out some of the stuff that others would have to do if something happened to you or you needed to scale down in order to make a move to assisted living or other elder care facility. Mark items at home that are family treasures so you ensure they go to the right people someday. Get your paperwork in order. Declutter and redo a room in your house. Paint is pretty cheap if you need to spiff up a room.
Have a do-nothing day if you so desire. Stay in the pj's and just do nothing.
I was recently forced into retirement at 74 when my boss [85] had passed this Spring and the business closed up. Oh how I loved unlocking the office door each morning. Every day was different, and I was the boss's right arm. My work was part-time and I did that for ten years. Well rewarding.
I hate being home now. I am no Martha Stewart. For over 20 years I did one morning a week doing volunteer work at the local regional hospital. Love that job, too. With the covid, the volunteer work has been suspended, and probably won't restart until the middle of next year :(
Yikes, my mind is going to mush. My brain isn't being challenged unless Sig-other and I watch game shows that ask questions such as Cash Cab, Common Knowledge, etc. Oh, sig-other is on his third career. If he didn't work, he would become interwoven into the sofa, brain dead from sports :P
I have been shaking the family tree over the years, found over 4,000 people on my Dad's side of the family. I better buy more boxes of Christmas cards :P
Check to see if a local college or university nearby has classes you might be interested in. Our local university allows seniors to pay an annual fee and sit in on dozens of different classes.
Allow yourself down time, too. If you don't want to get up and go somewhere you planned to go, don't. If you want a lazy day with nothing to do, go for it.
My husband retired on July 1, and every day is Saturday, he says. No stress, no traffic, and no business clothes -- he's positively giddy! However, he's been extremely busy every day since he retired, and he watches a webinar on real estate investing (his hobby), messes with the cars (his other hobby) and messes up my grocery shopping. (We both bought 18 eggs today because he didn't tell me he was going to stop at the grocery store after I clearly told him I was going.)
The most important thing to do is to have something to look forward to.
Start gardening and grow your own produce; you'll have fresher and more healthier produce than sprayed store produce.
Read up on food storage, root cellars, and cold frames, and if you're handy creating things, consider building a cold frame to extend the growing season.
If you sew, make more of your own clothes. You can probably make them cheaper than buying them, and they'll fit better.
Walk. It's relaxing and healthful. If you backpack or camp, it'll cost to supply yourself, but other than good shoes, walking is free.
Ask yourself what you would have liked to do but couldn't b/c you didn't have the time. Then do it.
Do you do a lot of cooking? Baking? If you don't bake bread, try it; there's nothing like the smell of bread baking and making the whole house fragrant.
I still have 3 years, 4 months left at the post office. My oldest son doesn’t want kids so we will probably NOT be grandparents. I plan on being a volunteer baby cuddler at the hospital. I know I can’t do it now with Covid but hopefully I can when I retire.
I will tell you that I have never known a bored moment, but I cannot honestly remember boredom. I sleep like a log after a busy day.
I can also tell you that the days get shorter. We tease that it is now the Sunday New York Times every 15 minutes at our age. The weeks fly by.
So I would say concentrate on what you now do and love in your off time, and what you always wanted to do that you have no time for. Hoping to see other suggestions from others.
Volunteer work costs you nothing but brings purpose to your life and it can lead to new opportunities to earn some cash.
That's what I thought... For various reasons, that hasn't happened for me yet... Hoping I live long enough to do some of the things I wanted to do (didn't even have BIG plans, like travel, snowbirding, etc, just simple things I didn't have time for when raising kids and working full time and then some...)
Guess I'm not retired yet...
Retired people who are OK with money? Golf, travel, gardening, book clubs, spending time with grandkids. Some not so much during Corona.