Give me three things I can do, when I get retired in 6 months!?

Question

I am healthy, married and a little bit worried about how to spend my time alone in the house while my wife is still working another 10 years.

Answer 1

travel, watch tv, work out

Answer 2

Gardening, photography, take classes at an adult school, junior college. Go walking. Join a club. Become a gourmet cook. Do all the projects you thought about doing but were too tired to do after working all day. Volunteer - the library, zoo, museum, school, what ever is your strength, or what ever you would like to learn about, or something that is so the opposite of what you ever did. Travel, read, plan the great vacations for you and your wife (my husband was fabulous at this), play on the computer, go to the gym. Join a political group and play an active role. After about a month or so, don't let yourself sleep the day away. Get up and get dressed at a reasonable hour and organize your day to do the things you want. If you don't, you will find your day over with and you did nothing. If that is what you want, fine. But there are a lot of exciting things to get into. Good luck.

Answer 3

Learn to take care of the house. Learn to cook so she can come home to an amazingly healthy gourmet meal most days. Add on to the deck. Plant the garden you've always wanted. Volunteer your time in the community. Do all of those projects around the house that you've wanted to do for years. Find creative ways to spend all that retirement money! Plan vacations down to the detail. Most importantly, if you don't listen to any of my other suggestions, please listen to this one. Get out of the house at LEAST once a day. Find a local coffee shop to visit every morning. Become a regular and shoot the bull with the other locals. I've seen retirement become almost like a prison to some based on not following this one simple rule. You have to get out and interact with other humans on a regular basis or you'll start to shrivel up and age! Don't do it! Good luck and enjoy your retirement. Us 40 year olds are happy to see all of you boomers start to retire! Ahhhhhh the job opportunities...the move ups in senority....we're ready to be set! lol

Answer 4

My first reaction to this is to keep working for 5 years and then have your wife retire early.

However, if your wife wants to keep working for another decade, and you have some serious days on your hands, I'm sure your wife has already planned many household projects for you to complete. After you've started those, given up, and hired a contractor, it should be about time for her to retire anyway.

If there are no projects, there is always general household chores. That will take up a good part of the day. Then there is the Bold and the Beautiful.

If you have any club, sporting, or church activities, they are always looking for volunteers to help their wives with their household projects.

You could become a mentor or just buy an orphan from a third world country--that's pretty popular now and should keep you on your toes.

You will also have time to do fun things like go see plays, movies, local sports and bands... you will have time to plan out whole outings with your wife, even weekend getaways.

When you are done with that, I have plenty of household projects you could help me with. How are you with spackle?

Answer 5

1. Go fishing!!
2. Read all the books you want!
3. Spend time on Y!A!!
4. Get a hobby (making birdhouses, cooking, gardening, golf)
5. Join Pogo.com and play fun games.
6. Remodel the house....but get permission first!
7. Volunteer at the Senior Citizen's center, a woman's shelter, or for meals on wheels.

Enjoy your retirement--I am envious, 'cause I have another 20 years!!

Answer 6

Congrats!!! Well, you rightfully worry because it is a big transition. Yes, you deserve some downtime to sit in your recliner and watch TV until your eyes fall out of stay on Y!A until your fingers fall off, but I think those things should be a reward, not your life. I started volunteering at my Grandson's school, my neighbor volunteers at the hospital 3 days a week, so I say volunteer; or take adult education courses at the community college, art, cooking, photography, whatever you have an interest in. They even have some "Spring Semester" trips. I keep saying I'm going to take Reiki. Clean the house, do the laundry, and cook dinner, including the grocery shopping, during the workweek. I like to garden and tinker around the house, so take on some DIY projects, but make sure you rent or buy the tools you'll need and plan everything out.

Answer 7

1. volunteer
2. start an eBay based business
3. do some improvement projects that you wife has probably been asking you to do for years.
4. Get a silly part time job somewhere you always dreamed about working like a gulf club (course) or bowling alley, somewhere you can work and play
I hope I remember this advice when I am ready to retire 20 years from now (ugh)
By the way, congratulations on working hard enough and long enough to be able to retire, hope you figure this out,

Answer 8

Read(something I never had time to do when working), volunteer-there are a number of good causes-golf or fish-find a nifty hobby, organize the garage and attic-do the housework so your wife doesnt have to,learn to cook so your wife doesnt have to- pick up some odd jobs(my friend started an interior painting business after he retired )-it truly depends on your likes and dislikes-there are infinite possibilities

Answer 9

Are you interested or able to afford traveling, even road trips would be nice. You can also pick up a new skill or start a blog somewhere and get a regular stream of options on what kinds of things to see and do. If you have kids then maybe there are places they really liked that you've never seen, or just pick a place, even a store that you've never been to or a part of town you don't go to often and just see what's there. I hope to do a lot of exploring once I retire but I still have another 35 years to go.

Answer 10

Now is the time to look for your hidden talents. Think about what you enjoy doing, things that you have wanted to try, to make, do or achieve. I have discovered a lot of hidden talents when I became single, like woodworking, restoring furniture, flower arrangements, doing research for others who need something but haven't the time for research. Volunteer somewhere you would enjoy helping out 1 or 2 days a week, get a dog and start training for dog shows, very time consuming. And the benefits of love! Look into yourself to find what you have always want to try. Be constructive you will live longer and be happier.

Answer 11

Okay now that you will be home take the time and give your wife back a little of what she gave you. like cleaning up , cook her a good meal Little things like that also travel and relax. And if you have grand children spend sometime with them