No kids/heirs here either - I'm with milo on the Heaven's Gate exit. Bulldoze my stuff into a volcano when I'm gone...
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 10 May 2024 22:12 (two weeks ago) link
Well this thread took a turn for the morbid
― calstars, Friday, 10 May 2024 22:32 (two weeks ago) link
Retirement is as inconceivable as winning a $500mn jackpot and I just don't want to be one of those inspirational stories on the news about an 85 year old celebrating their birthday during a Wal-Mart shift. Even that fate is preferable to the old people prisons you get stuck in if Medicaid/Medicare have to foot the entire bill.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 10 May 2024 22:44 (two weeks ago) link
I think being a greeter is like the ideal post retirement gig. Love to say hi to strangers and to be paid to do it? Ffs
― calstars, Friday, 10 May 2024 22:50 (two weeks ago) link
When the time comes Im going to rat out all you retirees’ hiding places to the liberators in exchange for food and shelter, gl
― brimstead, Friday, 10 May 2024 22:50 (two weeks ago) link
Fuck Walmart greeters and fuck Walmart.
― brimstead, Friday, 10 May 2024 22:51 (two weeks ago) link
Bro
― calstars, Friday, 10 May 2024 22:54 (two weeks ago) link
lol it’s like I remember someone made a post here recently about hating self-checkout at groceries stores because they like to talk to the staff or something.. like ok
― brimstead, Friday, 10 May 2024 22:59 (two weeks ago) link
I’m finding my current age (59) a bit agonising. I can see over the next few years the strong temptation will be for me to keep working to ensure I’m as financially comfortable as possible- but this will cut into precious uncertain remaining years of good health I could be using for an active retirement.
It’s tough trying to land a retirement in a cost of living crisis.
― Bob Six, Friday, 10 May 2024 23:01 (two weeks ago) link
we should form an ILE retirement center in the U.S. imo
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 May 2024 23:04 (two weeks ago) link
Wal-Mart eliminated the elderly greeters IIRC, they're all spry young loss prevention associates to keep you from shoplifting baby food and diapers.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 10 May 2024 23:09 (two weeks ago) link
^^Yesterday I was at my old local Walmart for the first time since I moved/the pandemic, and was kinda bleak. The whole beauty department and all the Legos were in glass display cases!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 10 May 2024 23:15 (two weeks ago) link
Theft is reals
― calstars, Saturday, 11 May 2024 00:07 (one week ago) link
Target is the same way
Bought toothpaste yesterday and not only was it in a locked case, someone had to take it to the register for us
― default damager (lukas), Saturday, 11 May 2024 01:04 (one week ago) link
we had a BJs membership and i just ended up refusing to go there because they check your cart at the door after you have already paid. fuck that i hate them. plus it just has an apocalypse vibe in there. people stocking up for doomsday. the perfect place to take over in the event of a real doomsday though. so much food. so many socks.
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 May 2024 01:39 (one week ago) link
Walmart is super apocalyptic, so much stuff behind bars and glass. So much unfinished concrete. So cold.
― brimstead, Saturday, 11 May 2024 02:00 (one week ago) link
the concrete is a good call out, so many places are like this now. like they decided 'why spend money making this place look good, who cares'. apparently people don't either!
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 11 May 2024 02:02 (one week ago) link
lol they just did a full remodel of ours and the polished concrete floors are a vast improvement
― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Saturday, 11 May 2024 02:27 (one week ago) link
I need 50 pounds of romaine where can I go yeah you know
― calstars, Saturday, 11 May 2024 02:35 (one week ago) link
green in judgment, cold in blood
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 11 May 2024 05:16 (one week ago) link
Theft is realscitation needed
― bae (sic), Saturday, 11 May 2024 06:16 (one week ago) link
I just want to acknowledge that well-placed Shakefpeare ref
― epistantophus, Saturday, 11 May 2024 11:28 (one week ago) link
I'm somewhere in the middle here. I've put away enough that I'm not contemplating the plastic bag and sleeping pills option, but on the other hand I don't realistically have enough to retire on when I might want to. I'm guessing I'll have to sell my house and move to somewhere smaller and cheaper.
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 11 May 2024 13:18 (one week ago) link
Our retirements plans are in good part not-spending: staying in an affordable town, not moving into a bigger apartment, bringing lunch to work, buying only what we need and when we can, day-to-day discipline.
We are well covered and put aside regular amounts on the equivalent of a 401k, but we have only just started. My partner took a one-way ticket here and brought 10K in savings when I had just enough left from a 10K student loan to buy a bed and couch. That was five years ago. Now we're in our late 30s, dual income, one kid. We probably both have a shot at making good salaries one day, if that's what we want.
The dream would be to make a lot, buy a house, retire early. The reality is that less and less people can do that.
― Nabozo, Saturday, 11 May 2024 14:49 (one week ago) link
I'm privileged in my bachelorhood: good job, state benefits, a Roth IRA, some savings. I often ask myself if I should be abstemious for the sake of old age because I've no illusions about who will help care for me, but then I stop and wonder, why not have fun now?
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 May 2024 14:55 (one week ago) link
gaudeamus igitur
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 11 May 2024 17:47 (one week ago) link
I will most likely work until I die, then I guess i'll wake up again the next day and go back to work again like nothing ever happened
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Saturday, 11 May 2024 18:07 (one week ago) link
i have a retirement date and will be comfortable after it as far as whats in my control goes, the focus is to bring that forward from here if i can
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 11 May 2024 18:18 (one week ago) link
In 2020, I took an early retirement package that paid out more than if I was laid off. I was able to be in husband's health insurance for a reasonable cost and thought I might actually retire, just work part-time low stress until I could take early social security. But I got bored after 3 weeks and started consulting which was really lucrative but super high stress and basically 24/7. I bought outright an inhabitable doublewide in a 55+ park in 2021 with some of the proceeds, thinking I'd definitely get out of consulting when I hit 62. We'd get by okay on SS and my okay level of savings. I'd cashed out all my previous 401ks a dozen years before to fund a solo venture (not recommended if you have to pay penalties). Suddenly found a job I really really wanted to do, for 1/4 of what I was making consulting. It's a different kind of stress, a better kind. I got a wild hair to buy unimproved land in 2023 and cashed out another chunk of 401k for that. So now I've got low/moderate savings, a place to live I can afford that's okay, 20 acres to do something with eventually. Whatever gets thrown at us, I figure we'll adapt.
― Jaq, Saturday, 11 May 2024 18:38 (one week ago) link
Folks at current job keep panicking all the time about when I'll retire, which earliest would be in 3 years but if I'm healthy and still enjoying it I'll be glad to continue. The healthy&happy equation is the important calculus though vs. can I afford to survive without.
― Jaq, Saturday, 11 May 2024 18:43 (one week ago) link
I took voluntary redundancy from my office job during the pandemic and used the money to set myself up as a gardener. I don't earn very much now and my wife doesn't work due to her MS but we just about scrape by. I'm doing a job that I enjoy, i listen to music or birdsong all day long, I'm my own boss, and i spend most of the day away from a desk. i feel like i'm mostly having a positive effect on the environment (i'm steathily turning all my clients' gardens into mini nature reserves, just sneaking in little things here and there; i did get stung by bumblebees today though when i strimmed the grass too close to their nest, i tried to be their ally but they've turned against me). I don't have any real savings but as long as I can hang on to my health and don't injure myself falling off a ladder or something daft, then once I reach a certain age and our kids have moved on, I hope I'll end up just working mornings, pottering around people's gardens as a doddery old man, trying to be useful. At least it'll get me out of the house and keep me active. Things that might scupper this plan: my wife's health significantly declining so that she needs caring for; also the cost of running a crappy old van is killing me at the moment, and any surplus I currently make is used to keep that heap of shit going :(
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Saturday, 11 May 2024 19:25 (one week ago) link