Retirement?

[MsPony]

What's re-tire-ment?? I'm 20, waiting to finish school so I can get that farm!

 

[Up-the-Creek]

Retirement??? That is a word with many different meanings for many people. Myself and DH are not counting on SS or anything else for that matter. We have the land and are almost debt free,..the little bit of debt we have is what I worry about right now,..when that is gone, we are "retired". We will do what we want, when we want,...and sit on those rockers on the front porch and laugh and smile,....what else would you want to do???

 

[MsPony]

Everyone is legally mugged by the govt it protects us, so we gotta pay ya know

I'd rather pay the mafia. At least if you pay them, they DO protect you. You become their turf.

<-- marrying into a Mafia-ish-esque family. 2012? Hah, no issue, got my life covered!

 

[AL]

I live 20 minutes from some of the most beautiful beaches in the world (until the condos, hotels etc overcrowd them) so I don't need to travel or move for better weather. I have many years until retirement, but for me it will be a few acres at the north end of our county (providing it is still rural) and some cows, goats, chickens. When I am too physically aged or tired to deal with the critters, I'll put all I can hold in the freezer, sell the rest and sit in my rocker listening to the wind through the pines and watch the snow white cotton fields being harvested.

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and then reality hits: I'll live on the same couple of acres I have now because they are paid for. The city will be at my door step and I'll be working everyday to support myself, a dog and maybe a few chickens if I'm lucky

 

[Andy J]

I can't ever see myself retiring unless I sell everything I own,take the money I get from the sale,and have sort of a makeshift retirement of some kind.My wife and I own 80 acres and a fine 1450 square foot brick home that I built myself.We owe no one except God,who we can't pay.Jesus paid that debt for us.

Seriously,I probably won't be allowed to retire.I'm a white working,tax paying male who works everyday.I'm 58 years old,hated by society because of the problems my kind has caused.However,I'm loved because I work steady,I'm dependable,and millions depend on me and my kind to get out there everyday and put our backs into it,so the entitlement receivers won't have to.

My wife and I haven't counted on receiving SS;I have no confidence in ever getting it,although I may.I've made my own provisions for a hopeful retirement one day.

There's one concession that may come true one day:"The sun don't shine up the same dog's a$$ everyday".

So,until then,my kind and I,the hated white males,will be out there EVERYDAY doing it so we can keep the public trough filled.

 

[MsPony]

Andy J, I'm not sure where you live, where do you get this "hated" bit from? My hubby is "white" (he's really native american, but he's part Navajo which had some Irish thrown in down the line so he's "white" skinned) and he's not hated by anyone? Sure people are jealous, he works his butt off everyday and has the life we live to show for it. I don't think anyone hates his friends either, all of which are hardworking white males? Of course they all work "man" jobs?

 

[abifae]

I get mad every year when I see I paid more into social security than Fed taxes when not only will I not see a penny, but doubtfully my parents. I don't have any grandparents on it. While I am all for caring for the elderly, I think families should do it.

I'd take in my dad in a heartbeat. I'd help pay for helen to be in a home. The mom lady. I'd take care of my step dad. I'd sell my step mom for parts.

So my family is all set.

 

[savingdogs]

I find it infuriating to think how our retirement money is being squandered for us.

I have to console myself remembering that my mother currently and my grandmother prior to that were drawing upon SS for many years. I have to look at it as the way that I have supported my elderly family members.

Will it be there for me? Doubtfully. But if I give my children a good example to follow in how my siblings and I handle our mother as she ages, perhaps they will, in turn, find a way to handle me when my time comes.

I can only hope.

 

[Buster]

I plan to retire at 62. We have rental property that will be paid off by then and will make a nice supplemental income. Have been socking away money in mutual funds and IRAs, and my job has a solvent retirement plan (as union president for our 435 member local, I negotiated that just a couple of weeks ago) that will also be a nice side deal.

When I do retire, the only debt we will have left is the farm, and the goal is to make enough off the farm to pay the mortgage, insurance, and taxes on the place.

 

[Dunkopf]

I plan to retire and grow medicinal marijuana on my farm. It's a great cash crop. Lots of money for the amount of work put into it. Completely legal too.

Of course it all depends on Colorado maintaining it's current laws. Health care should be socialized by then, so we should be set on that. If not, my employer provides health insurance to retired employees along with a decent pension. Hopefully the 401k will be worth something by then. There might even be some SS left.

If the corporations are totally running the show by then and all social safety nets have been abolished and the great society has truly crumbled. Well I'll just hunker down in my cardboard box and wait for some starving person to eat me. Of course I'm white so someone might kill me before then.

After all in the olden days, people only lived till they were about 55 and I'm almost there already.

Actually if we can somehow make the house payments I would like to expand my woodworking and dink around like that all day untill all my fingers are gone. Maybe sell some stuff. Stay out of DW's way so she doesn't shoot me or something.