The Retirement Thread

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jda
jda
10 Jul
1:13pm, 10 Jul 2024
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jda
If you're rich enough you're old enough :-)
EvilPixie
EvilPixie
10 Jul
1:15pm, 10 Jul 2024
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EvilPixie
GG
MrPix is 56 I’m 51
Ness
Ness
10 Jul
1:24pm, 10 Jul 2024
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Ness
I'm 57 and retired 3 and a half years ago.
Sigh
Sigh
10 Jul
2:24pm, 10 Jul 2024
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Sigh
I'm 56 and retired 344 days ago :-)

Detailed planning for retirement began just after my 54th birthday.
Diogenes
Diogenes
10 Jul
2:31pm, 10 Jul 2024
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Diogenes
Do any of those of you that retired in your 50s have dependent children, or even adult offspring living at home? I'm thinking that it's probably no, or not many of you.
geordiegirl
geordiegirl
10 Jul
2:42pm, 10 Jul 2024
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I am old enough but I still don’t feel old enough I think I’m still 17 🤪🤪

Playing with budgets instead of working oops.
Winniefree
Winniefree
10 Jul
2:44pm, 10 Jul 2024
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Winniefree
No, none here, although I wouldn’t rule out a return to the nest by either of them at some point.
Enjoyed a perk of retirement today, a lunchtime concert with subsidised lunch. A phenomenal musician too, Jasdeep Singh Degun.
jda
jda
10 Jul
2:48pm, 10 Jul 2024
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jda
No children, yes of course that's bee a huge factor in two professional adults working full time with no breaks and saving enough to retire early. TBH we had nowhere near enough time to spend our income, not even close....in Japan we were pretty much saving 1.5 of our 2 salaries.
Flatlander
Flatlander
10 Jul
2:53pm, 10 Jul 2024
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Flatlander
Dio, I retired at age 57 (I now know that financially I could have left several years earlier) with no partner, never married, no children, nor any other dependents, all of which meant my financial savings were able to be built up well enough to retire early (although from what several others have written of their plans, 57 isn't early these days ;-) ).
Velociraptor
Velociraptor
10 Jul
2:57pm, 10 Jul 2024
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Velociraptor
I'm plenty old enough to be retired but don't feel anywhere near that age.

My children were all reasonably securely launched by the time I stopped work.

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