How do YOU feel about downsizing and moving away from your country estate?

   / How do YOU feel about downsizing and moving away from your country estate? #71  
A corollary to this thread might be "How many of you are really financially prepared for retirement ?" Not intended as any disrespect to anyone here, but a lot of what I read on the subject of retirement seems to indicate that many, many people have hardly begun to accumulate assets necessary to support their visualized lifestyle in retirement.
 
   / How do YOU feel about downsizing and moving away from your country estate? #72  
I've always gone on the assumption that nothing is promised... my only experience working at a big company with big company benefits has been one reduction after another over a 10 year period...

If I lost my job today... it wouldn't change my frugal lifestyle.

I do plan on Social Security and Medicare... until that time comes I have the rentals I've put together to tide me over...
 
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   / How do YOU feel about downsizing and moving away from your country estate? #73  
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Only the Lord knows - man can get ready for retirement but the Lord direct the man steps.
 
   / How do YOU feel about downsizing and moving away from your country estate? #75  
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The only way I think I could leave our 9 acre ranch (heheheheheh) would be to live full time in an RV. We recently expanded our house to about 1,800 square feet, added an office for Ethyl, made bedroom big enough so I could cuss a cat without getting hair in my mouth. I love our privacy here, but I love traveling in an RV! I would actually love to live full time in one. Nothing too fancy, just a solid built trailer would be nice...
 
   / How do YOU feel about downsizing and moving away from your country estate? #77  
Just to add to my previous posting above.........

How could I leave this? Can't see the road...or be seen from the road. In the middle of acres and acres of woods. If I want to shoot in the back yard I can. If I want to walk a couple hundred yards thru the woods, there's a private family owned pond for fishing. Deer, turkey, pheasants, rabbits, all think they live with me. They don't seem to mind if I'm on my porch with my dog watching them. Porch is not really in view in picture. My tractor and other toys are in a barn a couple hundred feet to the right.

As long as I'm able to get to my tractor, I'll be here....hopefully even longer than that.

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That looks like a Post Card. Very nice
 
   / How do YOU feel about downsizing and moving away from your country estate? #78  
Amazing story. Talk about being wise beyond one's years!

Thanks. I'll never forget that day. I just wish I could've been at my actual Grandmas side when they both died.

The one that lived close to us when she died at age 70 I was 8 going on 9.

I walked in my with mom and I knew right off that she was dead and at peace.

My dad had just left her house about 30 minutes before to come home and she wasn't feeling good at that time.

He asked her if she wanted an ambulance but she refused and told dad that she didn't want an ambulance and that she'd be okay that he could go on home to us.

My dad felt guilty for leaving and not getting some help for her. Not long after he got home he had a feeling that he should go back over to her house. Me and my mom went with him and that's when we found her dead in her chair.

My mom called 911 and when they got there they had pronounced her dead.

Here the police were trying to sugar coat it for me that she had just went to the sleep. And I told them yeah she went to sleep for good. And she's at peace.

I had known she was dead. And she died at home where she wanted to be.

A few years ago my oldest sisters friend had died in a car crash and my sister was trying to sugar coat it as well to my sisters friends 4 year old daughter
about her mothers death.

She was real smart about it and told my sister that it's okay I know she died and hopefully one day I'll see her again.

She even held her moms hand in her coffin during the funeral.

It surprised my sister how good the girl took it about her moms death and at the funeral.

Some kids may not understand but some really do understand about death.
 
   / How do YOU feel about downsizing and moving away from your country estate? #79  
Just to add to my previous posting above.........

How could I leave this? Can't see the road...or be seen from the road. In the middle of acres and acres of woods. If I want to shoot in the back yard I can. If I want to walk a couple hundred yards thru the woods, there's a private family owned pond for fishing. Deer, turkey, pheasants, rabbits, all think they live with me. They don't seem to mind if I'm on my porch with my dog watching them. Porch is not really in view in picture. My tractor and other toys are in a barn a couple hundred feet to the right.

As long as I'm able to get to my tractor, I'll be here....hopefully even longer than that.

S1.jpg

I could never leave that. That pic makes me love snow. That place is just beautiful.
 
   / How do YOU feel about downsizing and moving away from your country estate? #80  
Thanks. I'll never forget that day. I just wish I could've been at my actual Grandmas side when they both died.

The one that lived close to us when she died at age 70 I was 8 going on 9.

I walked in my with mom and I knew right off that she was dead and at peace.

My dad had just left her house about 30 minutes before to come home and she wasn't feeling good at that time.

He asked her if she wanted an ambulance but she refused and told dad that she didn't want an ambulance and that she'd be okay that he could go on home to us.

My dad felt guilty for leaving and not getting some help for her. Not long after he got home he had a feeling that he should go back over to her house. Me and my mom went with him and that's when we found her dead in her chair.

My mom called 911 and when they got there they had pronounced her dead.

Here the police were trying to sugar coat it for me that she had just went to the sleep. And I told them yeah she went to sleep for good. And she's at peace.

I had known she was dead. And she died at home where she wanted to be.

A few years ago my oldest sisters friend had died in a car crash and my sister was trying to sugar coat it as well to my sisters friends 4 year old daughter
about her mothers death.

She was real smart about it and told my sister that it's okay I know she died and hopefully one day I'll see her again.

She even held her moms hand in her coffin during the funeral.

It surprised my sister how good the girl took it about her moms death and at the funeral.

Some kids may not understand but some really do understand about death.

Kids are intuitive and often underestimated...

They can also be very direct...

I took my then 6 year old niece with me to visit some old friends in Austria... I did not know she had been ill for a long time, so much so that the living room was now her bedroom...

She motioned for my niece to come sit with her... my niece is an English speaking California girl and my friend was 75 and only spoke German... it was amazing how they connected.

My niece just laid next to her and gave her a big hug... she then said my friend is dieing in English and asked if she was sad... my friend said no... she had a great life and was still making new friends like my niece...

In a few days my friends daughter was to be married and we were both invited to sit with her... it really was a very magical experience and you would have thought it more like Grandmother and Granddaughter... even though they had never met...

She went on to say she is at peace and everything is in order... the farm will go on and she has been blessed to see all of her children marry... 3 weeks after the wedding she passed at home... just as she wanted.

I really think we shield kids too much... and it does them a disservice.
 

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