Tired...Anyone retired this year, how has it been, any issues. Looking at 3 more yrs.

[Redbug]

Redbug, what is the deal with the dryer sheets over there? I thought I was going crazy for a minute until I figured out everyone had some kind of dryer sheet reference.

Here ya go...
"What's the deal with the dryer sheets?!?" - Early Retirement & Financial Independence Community

And it goes both ways...TBN gets mentioned...read the entire thread...
http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f29/any-hobby-farmers-out-there-67025.html

 

[Larro Darro]

Thanks Redbug. It makes sense now. When we were saving for the house I would kid the wife about having beans and rice one night, and change it up with rice and beans the next night. But those years of living on as close to nothing as we could enabled us to be debt free now. Thanks for the link.

 

[dmccarty]

Thanks Redbug. It makes sense now. When we were saving for the house I would kid the wife about having beans and rice one night, and change it up with rice and beans the next night. But those years of living on as close to nothing as we could enabled us to be debt free now. Thanks for the link.

Shoot, eating rice and beans ain't frugal....

Frugal is eating just beans! :laughing::laughing::laughing:

We eat beans in the winter, too danged hot to eat them in the summer. For years I would make about gallon of beans over the weekend and we would eat them during the week. This year I started to make two gallons of beans since it is not that much extra work, and caning the extra gallon of beans. Still have a couple gallons left over. We pretty much stopped eating rice because I LOVE rice and would make too much. :laughing::laughing::laughing: This year I started making whole wheat and/or rye bread when cooking the beans. A slice of the bread and a bowl of beans is very filling.

You would think we would get sick of beans but we dont. Having the beans by themselves as a soup is one dish. Add rice or pasta and you have two different dishes. Using different cheeses with plain beans or added to the rice or pasta is a completely different dish. We also add olives to change it up. The kids have taken a liking to goat cheese so we will add that to the beans at some point. Every few months, I will smoke/cook a pork loin with hardwood, most of which I will freeze to use over the next month or so. Cube up some of the smoke pork and add to the beans, yet another dish. :licking::licking::licking: It really surprises me how we can take a basic bowl of beans and completely change it. Almost always we add olive oil and Balsamic vinegar though I might switch up and add one of the host sauces I like.

Later,
Dan

 

[Larro Darro]

Dan, every time we bake a ham, the next day the bone and a goodly amount of the meat goes into a pot of beans. I add to it every day like you do. These days I try to use the brown rice because of carbs. I also like to use the bags of frozen stir fry. With each addition it becomes a whole new dish.

I work nights and weekends, so we will fix up a week's worth of meals and put them in the freezer. I can defrost and heat them at work. It is better food than I would get eating out, and for a fraction of the price. But if I am working Thursday nights, I will buy a rack of ribs from the Harvey's deli. They are $10. You can't buy the meat and cook them for that. I will end up freezing some of them too.

But I eat with my customers too often for my waist line. Today there was a family reunion. I passed the three kinds of potato salad by but had ham, pork roast, fried chicken, chicken and rice, dressing and giblet gravy with cranberry sauce, squash, turnips, peas, two kinds of butter beans and cornbread. I have learned over the years to get a very small serving of each. And we won't talk about the cakes and pies.

 

[ultrarunner]

Most of my friends are older and just about all retired.

Most retired in their 50's... former military, utility workers and government jobs like police and fire... pensions with medical.

No one in my family has ever retired... we just work till we can't.

Thought I was going to break the mold when I started working at the local hospital... the benefits were great in the 90's... fast forward and no more pensions period.

I have a lifetime of projects and opportunities... just having a hard time walking away from a steady paycheck.

Some of my retired friends sail the world on their 60 foot plus boats... I had several standing invitations and never could take them up on it... now, the last has just sold his schooner... others have planes and would fly to Alaska and such...

Seems like that type of retirement is getting harder to support... especially if you are spending 10k a year or more for medical insurance.

 

[dmccarty]

Dan, every time we bake a ham, the next day the bone and a goodly amount of the meat goes into a pot of beans. I add to it every day like you do. These days I try to use the brown rice because of carbs. I also like to use the bags of frozen stir fry. With each addition it becomes a whole new dish.

Kinda amazing how long a ham can be made to last. I still have a ham bone in the freezer waiting for a batch of beans. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Not sure I could avoid fried chicken. That is pushing my ability to resist temptation.

Later,
Dan

 

[Redbug]

Awww man you guys are killin' me. Now, Ima mouthwatering over some beans and ham. You know if you just have only beans or only rice...butter makes it really good...

 

[newbury]

Since this thread has moved to ham bones.

Since SWMBO and I retired we have almost developed a routine involving ham. We go to our "eventual" retirement home in Mississippi for a few weeks to a few months, leaving our son and "his" Corgi at our home in Virginia.


Corgi w/ bone

Upon return we buy a ham, cook it, and within about two days cook the bone in beans, the Corgi gets the bone, which lasts her about a week or two.

 

[Larro Darro]

I was just over on that early retirement site Redbug linked for us. I read a long-winded thread about a lady trying to cut her monthly costs from $15000 to $3000. Just reading what she paid for internet, phone and TV, I didn't give her a chance of doing it. After seven pages of back and forth, she said she had even fired her gardener. Yes that's right, she fired her gardener. So if any of you guys are just a little short on your figures, I know it is a big hardship, but you should consider letting the gardener go.

I guess I have been doing it wrong all this time.

 

[Travelover]

I was just over on that early retirement site Redbug linked for us. I read a long-winded thread about a lady trying to cut her monthly costs from $15000 to $3000. Just reading what she paid for internet, phone and TV, I didn't give her a chance of doing it. After seven pages of back and forth, she said she had even fired her gardener. Yes that's right, she fired her gardener. So if any of you guys are just a little short on your figures, I know it is a big hardship, but you should consider letting the gardener go.

I guess I have been doing it wrong all this time.

Can you provide a link? I've been an active member over there for 7 years and don't recall this discussion.

At any rate, it is a great site, especially for ex-military, to get financial and retirement advice.