55 today! What can I do now? (1 Viewer)

[Chockswahay]

So then, I've just reached an age that only my parents and my friends parents ever had a right to be

I've discovered that I can:

Travel anywhere in Scotland for £19 return on ScotRail

Draw my private pension if I wish

Get insurance and stuff from Saga

What else?

 

[Detnor]

Age concession rates if a member of the Camping&Caravan Club

 

[Snowbird]

I had the same dilemma in 2000 when I was 50. I know what I did and have not once regretted it. You don't need anywhere near as much as you think you do. If the finances are in place, cut and run.

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[Jim]

You can officially moan about how tough it was in your day, how coppers clipped you round the ear while you stood to attention and how much you could buy with a ten bob note, things like that

 

[Chockswahay]

You can officially moan about how tough it was in your day, how coppers clipped you round the ear while you stood to attention and how much you could buy with a ten bob note, things like that

Hold up a minute Jim, I've already been doing that for a few years now

Ahh..........."officially moan"............Nice:thumb:

 

[Snowbird]

Bye the way HAPPY BIRTHDAY :thumb:

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[joner8888]

So then, I've just reached an age that only my parents and my friends parents ever had a right to be

I've discovered that I can:

Travel anywhere in Scotland for £19 return on ScotRail

Draw my private pension if I wish

Get insurance and stuff from Saga

What else?

I was 56 a few days ago--- I never realized i was entitled to all that for years!
Is there much i can gain from joining Saga?

 

[Chockswahay]

I was 56 a few days ago--- I never realized i was entitled to all that for years!
Is there much i can gain from joining Saga?

Err..............a truck load of junkmail trying to sell you insurance and stuff

 

[Jaws]

I would make a suggestion, but it is too long ago to remember !!

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[ShiftZZ]

Happy birthday, when I was 50 I started to withdraw my private pension, not much else really, I did decide to semi retire. Now not enough hours in the day...

 

[yorkshirepudding]

You can start a list....

of things you can no longer do

 

[JOHNSTEY]

I retired two years ago at the age of 56 and as half english with an english wife but living in Scotland share a similar circumstance.We have spent a lot of time away in the van and put our house on the market in spring but nothings going fast! It seems to us that you spend the first two thirds of your life acquiring stuff and the last third trying to divest yourself of all that you have acquired! As they say in 'The cube' SIMPLIFY
Happy Birthday and happy travels.:thumb:

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[hilldweller]

What else?

I think your brain is going, you typed 55 but gave all the details of 65.

Quite normal, get used to it.

 

[Chockswahay]

I think your brain is going, you typed 55 but gave all the details of 65.

Quite normal, get used to it.

Not yet I did mean 55 and it does all apply

 

[hilldweller]

Not yet I did mean 55 and it does all apply

REALLY :Sad:

You're a mere kid. Why didn't I get all that at 55

You've got a 10 year bonus over me then, make the most of it, make every second count.

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[Wildman]

and how much you could buy with a ten bob note, things like that

blooming heck jim could buy everything I wanted for 2/6d, a gallon of petrol and a packet of fags.

 

[teddybard]

Fifty Five

Two Options
1. Enjoy life & go fot it
2. Decline


Your Choice

Happy birthday anyway
Roger & Sheila

 

[pappajohn]

I was 56 a few days ago--- I never realized i was entitled to all that for years!
Is there much i can gain from joining Saga?

Err..............a truck load of junkmail trying to sell you Overpriced insurance and stuff

.

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[joner8888]

Happy birthday, when I was 50 I started to withdraw my private pension, not much else really, I did decide to semi retire. Now not enough hours in the day...

What is there to do when you retire-- I work all week and at weekends i sleep a lot
Do you retired guys sleep all week?

 

[hilldweller]

What is there to do when you retire

Get bored as hell.

Have a nagging sense of guilt.

But not everyone enjoys their work, some count the days to finishing, poor sods.

 

[tofo]

So then, I've just reached an age that only my parents and my friends parents ever had a right to be

I've discovered that I can:

Travel anywhere in Scotland for £19 return on ScotRail

Draw my private pension if I wish

Get insurance and stuff from Saga

What else?

avoid the [STRIKE]maily dale[/STRIKE] daily mail

it makes you go all shiffty

your blood pressure goes up

and jj takes you off his chrimble card list

oh have a nice day and

many happily returns

next up is winter fuel allowance :Blush:

dont worry saga will find you

:thumb::thumb::thumb:

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[Chockswahay]

I LOVE my work however there are so many adventures to be had I will have to stop working so that I can start on them.

So many things to do, so little time...........

 

[scotjimland]

you can look forward to getting older, more rickety with more aches and pains ..

a good day is when you awake..

a better day is when you awake and don't have any aches..

 

[joner8888]

[QUOTE=tofo;




dont worry saga will find you


I`m 6 years past 50 now ,ha ha , they have not found me yet .

If they do catch up with me, do i have to change my fashion sense and buy grey and biege clothes?

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[hilldweller]

I LOVE my work however there are so many adventures to be had I will have to stop working so that I can start on them.
So many things to do, so little time...........

Gets my vote, though just how many adventures a man can take is a bit debatable. If you can afford to do it at 55 go for it big time.

Well this is MotorhomeFun, so what's the first one ? There's a generous offer on the cards in January, go follow Snowbird to Morocco. It's not adventure as in climb Everest but a lovely experience without pushing the envelope.

Then return via Moscow.

 

[buttons]

Remember that in 15 short years you will be 70.Your retirement will have passed you by. Dont spend the next ten years planning and looking forward to retirement it will come and go. Enjoy now while you still have the desire to have fun.:man_in_love:

 

[Chockswahay]

Remember that in 15 short years you will be 70.Your retirement will have passed you by. Dont spend the next ten years planning and looking forward to retirement it will come and go. Enjoy now while you still have the desire to have fun.:man_in_love:

Precisely Buttons :thumb:

My kids say 'sleep when you're dead'............I think the sentiment is much the same only a little different...........'retire while you are young enough to enjoy it!'

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[Mavis]

Your just a baby yet --stop wishing your life away and enjoy --clubs and discos --Spain and have fun fun fun :thumb:

Seriously you will wake up soon enough and be 70 and wonder why you wasted so many years.
The shock we had was, when we down sized on retirement, and got rid of so much stuff we had bought over the years. We realised how much money we had wasted on things we thought we needed!!! We could have retired years ago if we had saved the money instead.

 

[joner8888]

Precisely Buttons :thumb:

My kids say 'sleep when you're dead'............I think the sentiment is much the same only a little different...........'retire while you are young enough to enjoy it!'

Horses for courses---------
i was semi retired at about 45 (middle aged crisis) -- it was fun for a while, it led to me getting bored if i was not at work, after a few years.
I had all the toys to play with :thumb:

I found most people my age at the time were in work and i found myself the odd one out surrunded by pensioners or teenagers.
I`m back into work again now with vengence and making up for wasted time and it`s great.
I`m going to hate it when they put me out to grass.

The best way to go is work hard and keep myself busy, the saying is true for me--The devil finds work for idle hands

 

[Chockswahay]

Horses for courses---------
i was semi retired at about 45 (middle aged crisis) -- it was fun for a while, it led to me getting bored if i was not at work, after a few years.
I had all the toys to play with :thumb:

I found most people my age at the time were in work and i found myself the odd one out surrunded by pensioners or teenagers.
I`m back into work again now with vengence and making up for wasted time and it`s great.
I`m going to hate it when they put me out to grass.

The best way to go is work hard and keep myself busy, the saying is true for me--The devil finds work for idle hands

It's funny you should say that. In 2004 my wife and I stopped work, sold the house, gave the cat away (kidz already left home), bought a sailing yacht and set sail on new adventures We sailed everywhere between the Hebrides and Gibralta and had a fantastic time.

We sailed full time until early 2007 when we stopped sailing and returned to the 'real world'.

Amongst the reasons for returning:

Missing our (grown up) children
Me missing my job (pilot)
Missing having a 'fixed abode'
Fed up with always looking for a safe anchorage
Fed up with 'surviving' the high seas.
Never quite having enough money.

One thing we never tired of though was the sense of adventure

Now nearly six years later we are hungry for more adventures, eager to see new countries.

However this time we are financially stronger, the kidz are older, we own another house and we are more secure in our own minds. I have enjoyed my flying, my wife has completed two degrees........................................but...........we are OLDER

Time to have more adventures! but that requires more timeoh:

Work just gets in the way.........

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