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Hey me too, first OAS check yesterday, holding opf the pension though. 600 bucks just pays the power bill.

Seriously? Do you light a warehouse?

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Daryl

that's (only) 20$ / day.
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We want a reduction to crime, violence and gun smuggling,
- they want a reduction in legal gun ownership.

Tracey Wilson, CCFR

No, just heat a yukon house for a month of -34 or 40. Bill was actually 450, but also burned over a cord of wood.

Like most things in life, retirement is exactly what you make it. I turned 57 in the summer after I retired from teaching elementary school for 31 years. For the last number of years of my career, I taught 7th grade, the one that the great majority of teachers avoid. Every day was a challenge and that was a good thing; very rewarding years.

After I retired, I made sure I maintained my fitness level and ate well, very different from what the outdated Canada food guide suggests. I have remained healthy and physically able to do things I have been doing for the last 30 years or more. I am now, a youngster of 70 years.

I refuse to create a "Bucket List", because, in my mind anyways, it suggests I am not happy with the life I have from day to day. Whether I am enjoying twiddling my thumbs for a while, playing with my granddaughter or jumping on an airplane to head someplace, it's all good. I try not to wait for life, because I am too busy living it all the time.

Embrace every day.

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Tim
CAFTA Governor and lifetime learner

Try once and win everything

I got my Senior discount at my bank last month. Only free thing I ever got from the bank. LOL

dude...

you're story is my story. age. hobbies. past times. activities. interests...

and working in a 'new to me gig', these past 8 years..
..that finances all of that.

..living what people hope to retire to.

but ya...

investment income...
we'll see how it works out 'cause i was always the "eat dessert first" kinda guy...

but i talked w my money guy last week and ya sure,
i can retire at 65, and live comfortably on my investments,

..if i die at 67.
ba doom
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i'm here all week,
god willing

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We want a reduction to crime, violence and gun smuggling,
- they want a reduction in legal gun ownership.

Tracey Wilson, CCFR

good first post.

I had freedom 52 21 years ago. Had a heart attack the next year which probably was the reason I did not feel like working. Had bypass(quintuple) a few years later but 17 years after just getting old! Unfortunately for the first 20 years I had a 3rd stall in the garage and a 700 sq ft workshop under it but it became too much and had to downsize and move to the "city". NOW I take up shooting when I don't have indoor capability. In the old place I could have had an active indoor range and club and still had a workshop!
Retirement not for everyone but it was for me and as far as comments earlier in the forum, I wonder if I hadn't retired and had a heart attack in downtown Toronto in the evening while working out of town, whether I would have made it, so happy I did retire and had someone to rush me in to emergency right there> Had my last cigarette at the emerg door!

Anyway allow for a little space in retirement.
I did enjoy the job just got tired of stress.

Ahh, yes- retirement. For many people, it's trying to live on 50% of what you could barely live on before retirement.

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Daryl