Glad you enjoyed it, Scarlett! Going over now to check out your blog :)

“If you have plenty of stuff to do outside of work, then you’ll be fine after retirement. ” — That’s a great way of putting it! People who have lots of hobbies and are always *active* will have no problem, but if your personality is not like that like you said, then more time needs to be dedicated to figuring out how best to survive retirement, and maybe you just don’t? Cutting back hours to half time or part time might keep a strong foundation for those types of people too so it’s not so extreme.

hah! bad luck on your part thee 😂

but you’re 100% right on the volunteer stuff!! it’s just as beneficial to YOU as it is the people/places/organizations you’re volunteering at! we’d all do so much more of it if we didn’t have to worry about money so much :)

Well fortunately they’re in school for most of the day so you get plenty of time (and rest!) for yourself before activating Dad Mode, lol… And meal prepping and fitness only takes so long so you’d be fine, believe me ;)

But you are right on the spouse thing. I get asked all the time – even from my own mom!! – if Mrs. eliteedgemoney truly is OK with it, so I’ll literally ask her every 3-4 months just in case I’ve overlooked any flags. And – I’ll ask her if she wants to join me!!! But i guess our personalities are so different that that isn’t even a thought to her as she likes the stability/routine of a 9-5 job (and health insurance!). But maybe one day ;)

I don’t know about the places that are all uncrowded during the day though. I once took a random day off last year and the grocery store, library, car dealership, and doctors offices were all packed between 10-3 on a Wednesday!

I do sometimes imagine what days would be like though. I would like to think I would have the freedom to focus on physical fitness and personal hobbies but in reality my days would probably just be prepping meals for my family, cleaning the house and then carting my 4 kids around to their 7 different sports practices (which, can be annoying to spend so much time in the car) but I wouldn’t trade this time in my life for the world. Working I would trade but that’s it.

YES!! I knew I had heard of someone in our community doing this, just couldn’t recall who…. I updated the post to include your article too – I remember reading it and thinking how powerful (and fun sounding!) it was! Thx for dropping it 🤙

https://www.theretirementmanifesto.com/what-ive-learned-from-my-retirement-mastermind-group/