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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A very good family friend just retired (and only from part time) and she's 63, and I think she has struggled. She volunteers A LOT, and always has, especially having only worked 3 days a week for her entire career. She goes to the gym regularly. She travels with her husband, and watches her grandkids if they're out of school for whatever reason. She has commented several times though that it can be very difficult not to have a purpose. [b]It is hard to imagine how you'd fill your entire day, every single day, without work. [/b][/quote]

Only if you are an extremely boring and unhealthy person. Yikes.[/quote]

Well, not really. Have you ever done it? Ever really determined how to fill that 8-12 hours you spend working/commuting everyday? Everybody has hobbies.... those hobbies already fill in during our free time while working. Can you really turn your hobbies from a couple hours a week to 40+? I love to read, can't read all day everyday. I like to garden, but that is seasonal, and might take up a few full days here and there, but not every day by any means. Maybe you can add in volunteering... but for how many hours? And the gym, that's an hour a day. Travel, sure, but that's not every week, or even every month. You can join a book club, or start a weekly lunch with friends, or a game night, or take a class, but again, that's only 1-3 hours. You're awake for probably 16. [/quote]

LOL! DH and i have been retired since we were 49&51. We are never ever bored! We have no problem filling 16hrs a day. We hiked Kilamanjaro, Mt Wadhington, Ausangate in Peru, and Longs Peak just to name a few. Qe rent a house in New England each summer and have done Vermont, Maine,  and Mass with Stowe being our favorite.

Bored? No. Never. [/quote]

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