First Day Of Retirement and Loving It
 

Gee, I haven't nothing to add to the title. :smiley:

Went to sleep last night at 10;30 and woke up at 9:00 AM. I good way to start retirement. Spent time on the puter and I am going to watch my Yankees Opening Day Game at the Sox at 1 PM. Maybe I'll go down tomorrow night and see the new stadium.

Does anyone remeber what they did on their first day of retirement?

So, you are only 62 ???????????

Rest up for that long ride down to Florida.....and ENJOY the rest of your life.

Congrats........

Today is my first day...and I kind of like it.

Congrats to you as well........enjoy.

Hope you have a long & healthy retirement!!!!!Are you going to purchase a new MEGA BIG screen tv to enjoy watching sports in retirement? Wife and I are sitting up on the Green Monster for July 19th. Yanks game. Hope the Sox aren't out of race by then.

I slept late and sit in my recliner & read a good mystery book or a love story with my favorite drink(mt. Dew) & played on the computer. I kept looking at the clock & thinking about the nuts at the office still working & i was hoping my customers were giving them hell. I had worked in an insurance office since i was 16 year old and i was happy to get out of there. Lol enjoy this day as it is the first day of the rest of your life & a good day it should be!

Congratulations!!!

Enjoy it:)

Thanks but I wish I was 62. That's when I saw TV for the first time and had an overwhemling urge to move immediately. I immediately thought, "this place is for me". :smiley:

Congrats on the first day of the rest of your life. :smiley:

I was thinking about getting a bigger television for the living room. That's the room for living, right? The big screens are relly great and I will put my puny 40 inch in the bedroom.

Football is the best for a big screen Tv but I do find that some of the spectacular special effect type movies are great too. :smiley:

Welcome to retirement, where a small task can last all day. When are you coming home to TV? retirement can be pretty bays here, or you can veg out for a day or two. It's all good. I just got back from a short, one week Western Caribbean cruise, wonderful! The cruise ports are not too far away, so when life in TV gets too hectic, you can get away. We always sail Celebrity, so we drive 4 hours to Ft. Lauderdale. Lots of choices here.

First day
 

Congrats 2B!! A buddy of mine won 2 free tickets on the FAN to the Yanks opening day. Too bad he's a Met fan...

As I sit here at work I'm wondering what I'll be doing my first day of retirement.

Well, It's Saturday and I'll be playing golf for the last time in Memphis with a few of my buddies.

Our Movers come 4/12. Just let us know when you come down to start looking for your place. We can get together!

Al

What did I do on my first (work) day of retirement? My work friends and colleagues have previously asked me that question also. My answer: I did nothing at all!

My friends/colleagues said that I did nothing as an employee, therefore apparently nothing had changed. I reminded them that I did nothing better than anyone else; so my years of doing nothing served to ease my transition from employment to retirement ;)

I use my cellphone as my alarm clock. The VERY FIRST thing I did as a retiree was to delete my workday morning alarm setting. What a liberating act that was!!

At first, retirement felt like a vacation. I felt that I would eventually have to return to work "soon". It took a few weeks of actual retirement before the realization of retirement started to take hold.

Enjoy it time goes even faster in retirement than it did when I worked. I have been retired almost 4 years and the first day seems like it was just yesterday.

I remember thinking, "I never have to go back again" smiling all day feeling relaxed and wondering what is next. I have been here 15 months and I am still in a vacation state of mind! Enjoy today and everyday ahead 2B! I wish you good health and happiness! I count my blessings everyday!

Congratulations, Joe! Goodbye tension, hello pension. I envy you. I got three years left before the first non-working day for the rest of my life.

Glad you're having a great "First Day", 2B!! Enjoy it!

Bill :wave:

It is absolutely true that you will feel like you are on vacation for a while - after all we have never known time off except for vacation so this is a whole new world you are entering. Take you time, enjoy the vacation feeling while it lasts, and everytime it dawns on you "this is the real deal" pat yourself on the back for the years of hard work that got you to this point. Just remember it is a process, something you ease your way into and enjoy the experience the entire way!

When you get here, go buy the largest tv you can find. This is the first day of the rest of your life. What are you waiting for?????

My first day of retirement is in a little over 6 weeks. I hope to be on the road, driving down to our new home in TV...Maybe I will see you down there 2B?

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I also felt like I was on vacation and would have to go back to work. But after a few weeks, the reality sunk in. Because the first few weeks are so filled with "house" stuff, it took a while before I rediscovered the childlike feeling of "going out to play". Now, that's what I do most days....play with my friends.

Not a clue what I did the first day; it was 11 years ago when I was 48.
Can tell you time has flown and no regrets.
I am looking forward to getting SS at 62 though!

Sorry our Yanks dampened your day ..... Enjoy otherwise!

Enjoy, as you have just entered the 4th quarter. Like the rest of us, you are retired Monday thru Friday and then have the weekend off.
Do yourself a favor and not get too relaxed and lazy. Keep physically active and don't let yourself wind down to the point that your health suffers. It's too easy to do nothing physically and let your health go. Don't ask me how I know that.

If you get bored in a few days, you can always call your old boss and hang up when he answers, over and over and over.

Great, isn't it.

Hey 2B: Congrats to you Dude! I am so envious! I am only 56 years old and have 6 years to go.... I have to be content with 3 months in my house in the Villages a year....

Like the guy in the TV commercial I come home from the office every day and say "one more day closer to retirement".....​

BTW: Sorry about your Yankees

Joe, I'm so pleased for you. Hey don't knock a huge TV in the bedroom. My 36 inch is very close to the side of the bed AND I can see it without my glasses! lol

My first day of retirement? It involved the hospital, so I'm doubly happy for you that you seem healthy. Keep it that way.

Dave

Congratulations! I worked my last day on a Thursday and the moving van arrived the next day to load us up. As soon as it pulled out we were on our way to our new home in The Villages. It was an exhausting month or more making the transition, but now we're settled and enjoying our new lives in TV doing as much or as little as we feel like doing on a daily basis. It's great!

On my first day of retirement, I went to my former office and brought coffee and donuts for everyone. I strolled in wearing Florida casual about 9:45am. Didn't say a word except that I had to leave to go to my tee time!

Congratulations, Joe!!! I can't remember exactly what I did the first day of retirement....Mike was still working so not too much changed at the house....I just didn't have to rush getting things done. When Mike retired, well, that was a different story. Those first days involved getting our household packed and starting our cross country drive. It was scary and EXCITING at the same time.

It does feel like a vacation for quite a while without a doubt. Keep your mind and body busy....retirement is great. ENJOY....and get here as soon as you can, we'll keep the light on and your lily pad ready.

Thanks, it was a good day

I always thought that you really don't experience your first day of retirement fully. For me, I didn't really realize I was fully retired until 3-4 weeks later. Here's the reason. I felt that I was on vacation for a couple of weeks. Sometime around week three, I said to myself "Hey!! I can get used to this!!!" That is when I transitioned between being on vacation, to being retired! No regrets for one second.

I was fortunate enough to be at the proverbial right place at the right time and retired early at 56 by taking advantage of an early retirement deal from my employer. My wife retired 6 months later, and one month after that, we were closing on a CYV here in The Villages.

Golf was on our bucket list. My wife and I took lessons last year and are enjoying the game, our time together, the weather, the new friends we have met, the "lifestyle", etc etc etc.

Congratulations to one and all that lived long enough to be able to retire and are healthy enough, financially secure enough to enjoy this next exciting chapter in our lives!!!!!

Here is the second day and it will be good!!!

Going to lunch with my cousin. Saying goodbye's and all that good stuff.

Thanks to everyone for their well wishes and hope to see y'all soon. :smiley:

Congrats!! I have been retired fir quite a while now.

On my first day of retirement I went to the dentist!

O.K. , so now it is DAY THREE of retirement:

Just say:

"I don't want to"
"I don't have to"
"You can't make me"
"I'M RETIRED"

Enjoy a safe trip down to Florida on the 5th of April???? Don't speed.

Congratulations! It's nice when you can go to bed at any time you want and then get up whenever you feel like it. I've been doing that for nearly 2 decades. I've been retired for so long, I hardly remember what it's like to work. About 19 years ago, I told a friend of mine that I was going to retire and he said, "from what?". That's the way it is when you work for yourself.....nobody thinks you're really working. Ha!

Needless to say, I didn't have any trouble adjusting to retirement. I'm totally used to killing time and doing whatever. I actually enjoy relaxing and having a lot of idle time.

What about you? Will you need to have a full schedule of activities? Nothing wrong with that!

My full schedule starts tomorrow with a car trip to Florida. Then house hunting in TV. Maybe buying a turnkey but I am leanng toward furnishing it myself in my own taste.

Then it's party time and doing what I want to do. :smiley:

You are going to have a blast. So happy for you. Can't wait til we are doing the same thing. Still working on getting the house ready to market. Enjoy each and every moment of this adventure. You've earned it:MOJE_whot: