Officially retired

[Big Barn]

My wife and I just went out to dinner to celebrate my 1 year retirement anniversary!

The year went fast. No regrets what so ever!

Congratulations

 

[lman]

Well it seems like you did well. Congratulations! My financial advisor told me to retire years ago but I work out of the house 3 days a week and I can sleep walk through what I do. Plus I have the best boss now that I have ever had. So other than taking up 50 to 60 hours a week, it is easy money. So for now I am working.

I retired about a year ago. Now I work 3 days a week away from home at a different job, but only about 25 hours.

 

[goeduck]

Wow, you put in some long days!!!

Not really, since I am mostly working at home it equates out to what I would spend if I worked an 8 hour day and spent 2 hours commuting (1 hour in the morning and 1 hour in the evening) for 10 hour days. Plus the occasional weekend or long day.

Heck I used to work 80+ hour weeks. My wife says 100 hour. I used to get home and watch David Letterman when he was AFTER Johnny Carson and then be back on the job at 7 AM. Plus weekends, but shorter days. I know one year I worked 363 days. But that was back in the day when I could/would do it on 3 or 4 hours of sleep.

 

[two_bit_score]

Congrats Bunyip! I'm trying to phase myself into retirement. Seems like I'm phasing myself into several other jobs though.

 

[Big Barn]

I know one year I worked 363 days. .

Growing up on the farm we only had two days off a year. Christmas and Boxing Day. I recall one Boxing Day where we had to work to get a truckload of turnips out of the field before they froze.

Ah, memories

 

[two_bit_score]

I know one year I worked 363 days..... . . .

I retired from a job where I was getting 6 weeks paid Vacation each year but never could really take all of it for various reasons. We had a squad of long tenured, experienced guys and so our work time was 'flexible'.
My old work boss would sometimes call me and ask if I was working that day.

My response was almost always, " I work a little every day."




TBS

 

[bunyip]

Well, I worked Thursday Friday and Saturday, they wanted me to come in today but wifey decided to get a metal fragment in her eye a couple of days ago and I have to take to the hospital for a follow up visit as she can't drive with an eyepatch, I offered to buy a parrot to sit on her shoulder to go with it, not amused.
Insurance assessor coming out tomorrow and daughter going for a test on Wednesday so my relaxing week is shot down in flames.

 

[Big Barn]

wifey decided to get a metal fragment in her eye a couple of days ago and I have to take to the hospital for a follow up visit as she can't drive with an eyepatch, I offered to buy a parrot to sit on her shoulder to go with it, not amused..

Wooden a new leg be cheaper ?

 

[ovrszd]

Not really, since I am mostly working at home it equates out to what I would spend if I worked an 8 hour day and spent 2 hours commuting (1 hour in the morning and 1 hour in the evening) for 10 hour days. Plus the occasional weekend or long day.

Heck I used to work 80+ hour weeks. My wife says 100 hour. I used to get home and watch David Letterman when he was AFTER Johnny Carson and then be back on the job at 7 AM. Plus weekends, but shorter days. I know one year I worked 363 days. But that was back in the day when I could/would do it on 3 or 4 hours of sleep.

I was responding to your claim of now working 3 days a week and clocking 50-60 hours. That comes in at somewhere around 18hrs a day. Doesn't sound very retired to me.

 

[ovrszd]

Growing up on the farm we only had two days off a year. Christmas and Boxing Day. I recall one Boxing Day where we had to work to get a truckload of turnips out of the field before they froze.

Ah, memories

We were at 1F degrees this morning with 4" of ice covered snow that you can walk on. Every one of my livestock farmer friends are out there taking care of business this morning. Non farmer people never quite understand.

 

[ovrszd]

Well, I worked Thursday Friday and Saturday, they wanted me to come in today but wifey decided to get a metal fragment in her eye a couple of days ago and I have to take to the hospital for a follow up visit as she can't drive with an eyepatch, I offered to buy a parrot to sit on her shoulder to go with it, not amused.
Insurance assessor coming out tomorrow and daughter going for a test on Wednesday so my relaxing week is shot down in flames.

I have noticed as I progress into these retirement years that I am becoming more possessive of my time.

Hope your pirate wife's healing is in sight......

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Wooden a new leg be cheaper ?

Thanks for the laugh.

Congrats Bunyip! Enjoy. Let us know when you get a "round tuit".

Have you been considering moving for a long time? Bigger? Most here downsize to keep ad valorem property taxes in check.

 

[goeduck]

I was responding to your claim of now working 3 days a week and clocking 50-60 hours. That comes in at somewhere around 18hrs a day. Doesn't sound very retired to me.

Oh, got it. I should have stated that I work 3 days a week at home and go into the office 2 days a week. My bad.

 

[bunyip]

Thanks for the laugh.

Congrats Bunyip! Enjoy. Let us know when you get a "round tuit".

Have you been considering moving for a long time? Bigger? Most here downsize to keep ad valorem property taxes in check.

What you call property taxes we call rates, small in town homes attract about the same rates as a acreage out of town plus we want a bigger house, our present property ahs been rezoned to residential so it can be sub divided for development which means our raytes will increase commensurate with what it coulkd earn the council if it was individual blocks.
We currently pay just over $1900pa on our 5 acres, further out 20-50 acres with home will be about $2000-2500pa, when we get caught up with ours will increase to about $12000.00 so it is a no brainer and also it is somewhere to keep the horses and room to have people over for the weekend, and lets face it, tractor work is not that hard and it gets me away from SWMBO whyo always finds something that she wants done like gardening which is not one of my favourite pastimes.

Wooden leg was a good idea, no feeding or parrot crap on the shoulder, Richard, that pun was woeful but yes she is recovering well.
I also found out that eye injuries heal from the inside out and not the way other body parts do, my little trivia contribution for the day.

 

[kenmac]

Congrats on your retirement. I sold my business and retired 4-5 yrs ago now. Heck, I don't even remember.
Bought a larger home on 40 acres. Also have 13 acres on a river not far from me that I visit often.

My property taxes here aren't bad. Home valued at 500K 40 acres and 13 on the river total of 53 acres right at $1300.00 per yr

I plan to apply for my SSI in 3 months. Hopefully it will be more than $6.20

Anyway, Enjoy yourself and keep busy. Something to do every day here at the farm

 

[goeduck]

^^^^ my property taxes are almost $1000 a MONTH. :shocked:

 

[Molalla1]

^^^^ my property taxes are almost $1000 a MONTH. :shocked:

D@mn Duck! How much land are you being taxed on, sounds like some heavy commercial taxes, for quite a lot of land.

 

[LouNY]

Up here the farms school tax is over $22,000 and the real property tax is over $10,000 not counting the houses.
My personal school tax is $3600 and almost $1800 for real property and that's with my veterans exception, house is valued at $256,000.

 

[ovrszd]

Up here the farms school tax is over $22,000 and the real property tax is over $10,000 not counting the houses.
My personal school tax is $3600 and almost $1800 for real property and that's with my veterans exception, house is valued at $256,000.

Dang Lou,,,, I'd have to get a job to retire.....

 

[bunyip]

Up here the farms school tax is over $22,000 and the real property tax is over $10,000 not counting the houses.
My personal school tax is $3600 and almost $1800 for real property and that's with my veterans exception, house is valued at $256,000.

Our place s currently valued at around $1.2m which attracts the $1900.00, place we looked at was $1.1m on 24 acres and attracts $2200.00, a house on a standard block in town 3br have a median price of around $400k and attract about $2000.00 but they have services such as sewerage which we don't, the property we looked at does not have town water just tanks, we have town water where we are now and tanks for the horses and garden.
I think your taxes could send us under