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02-06-2013, 07:38 PM
#31
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Pflugerville, TX
Posts: 230
Welcome to retirement! I wouldn't trade it for anything - except maybe the pay! Anyway, we'll have to stay in touch - our newest (as of April 2012) SIL asked if I'd make them a double wedding ring quilt. As he asked this question ONLY 6 weeks prior to wedding, I told him he'd get the quilt - just not in 6 weeks! They finally picked out the fabric in January. So, onward & upward! I guess it's jump in feet-first for both of us! Good luck!!
02-06-2013, 07:44 PM
#32
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 10,357
Well...you will be busy for awhile....I haven't worked for a number of years....the sabbatical kind of became retirement. Seems I am busier now than I was when my kids were young and I worked full-time.
02-06-2013, 11:44 PM
#33
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: South Yorkshire UK
Posts: 1,145
This is really good advice. When I was about to retire, the wisest thing anyone said to me was "When you retire, you spend the first year taking on lots of new commitments - and the second year getting rid of them all again!". Consequently, I've been very cautious about agreeing to take things on, and it's only now, at the end of the second year, that I'm beginning to feel clear about what I WANT to commit to. You need some time to figure out what balance works for you between time for and by yourself and time with and for others.
02-07-2013, 05:20 AM
#36
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 3,334
I've been retired nearly 10 years. I looked forward to it even though I loved my job. There were always things I wasn't able to get to when I was working. I view retirement as a really long vacation and I love it..... don't know how I had time to work. There are always so many things to do.
How you view life is a choice you make..... if you decide you're going to love being retired and fill your days with things you love..... it will happen. If you dread retirement and find fault with every little thing, it will be miserable. I choose to love it... and I do.
How you view life is a choice you make..... if you decide you're going to love being retired and fill your days with things you love..... it will happen. If you dread retirement and find fault with every little thing, it will be miserable. I choose to love it... and I do.
02-07-2013, 05:42 AM
#37
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Newington, CT
Posts: 3
Retirement is divine! Two of my retirement goals were: to get an eReader and read a book any time of the day if I pleased and to finally get into quilting. Well, I have read more in the past two years but wonder where all that extra time is that I thought I would have? Maybe I'm just too busy quilting!!!! Or getting a facial or letting my hair go naturally grey or getting rid of my acrylic fingernails. And instead of being dressed to kill each day I'm happy in jeans and fleece planning my next quilt. Life is definitely different but mostly free and easy. Who could complain about that? And that I'm young enough to enjoy it! I wish that for all of you!
02-07-2013, 06:22 AM
#38
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Oregon
Posts: 1,904
I'm going to try to retire ( for the second time) in April,and have wondered about what I will do all day. A quilting acquaintance showed up yesterday with a big box and a tote bag full of partially pieced fabrics,all organized in little labeled boxes. She just " hates this ugly stuff,it won't sew together right,it was to be a wedding quilt and the wedding was off,she has bad feelings about this"...would I take it so she just didn't toss it? It is a double wedding ring quilt,king size! So, of course ,I'm always ready to help! It even has quilting templates and 2instruction books,backing included! I'll make it and donate it to a fund raiser for an auction...if I survive that long LOL!
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