This Bulletin Article Could Change Your Life...

[PopCharlie]

Money, luck and good planning can make it happen. Multiple marriages, multiple families make it not happen.
Three wives, three sets of kids and you'll probably work until you drop. I know more than a few that went down that path. I planned at age 20, I'd quit at 59 1/2 and I did. Same wife for 54 years who worked made it happen.
YMMV.

Hogpatrol,
I agree, it takes good planning, sticking to your plan, and some good luck. I retired at age 60. We always lived way below our means, worked hard and saved all we could. I've been married 35 years. I'm 63 now, completely debt free, and enjoying life.

 

[ronsatspokane]

Yeah, but it takes money to just retire whenever you want

True but the bigger question is, how much money? When you are up to your neck in the rat race it is very easy to have your dreams and expectations grow at a faster rate than your income. When you are younger (say less than 50) that is life. You are building for the future or perhaps only for the next moment but you are building.

At some point the vast majority are forced (for a wide variety of reasons) to ask the question of how much is enough. It's a big step to go from building a life to burning what you've accumulated. Some people never get there and they fall over on the job while still building. Some get there early through good fortune or perhaps because their expectations have been adjusted (again for a wide variety of reasons). No one can make that call for anyone else. It's a very personal decision.

I would have liked to retire at 40 but I was not there (for a variety of reasons). I would have liked to retire at 50 but I was not there (for a smaller variety of reasons). Were it not for the stars aligning and pointing me to the exit I would likely still be working at 64. I'm very happy that I am not. I didn't accumulate enough to fulfill all my dreams and in the future I may be so poor that I'll be eating cat food when I'm back in diapers and drooling on myself. But at that point, who cares.

 

[Kittitas George]

Put people first, remember you can't make people to order and no one goes any where with out help, protect your mental health. Life is short, eat the cookies first.

 

[AlNyhus]

One of the saddest things to me is hearing someone talk about how they should have done this and how they wished they'd done that. Certainly, there are situations that limit what we may be able to do. But within reason....if you have the desire to do something, the how to do it seems to fall into place.

 

[Liven The Dream]

This is the read of encouragement .
I just hit 75. I was on the ropes with Heart and Blood Pressure trouble. I have turned that corner , Doctors are happy with my hard work.
I now have the drive I once had .
The shooting and fun are on full throttle .

Thanks,
Don

 

[billshehane]

Strangely enough Kelly and I talked about this very thing several months before he sold the business. He didn't want to see the same thing that happened, with Gale, his Dad fighting as long as he did and not doing some of the things he wanted to do. It's just ashamed it happend so quick. It's still hard to believe it happened so quick. Let us all take a lesson here and keep the hammer down. At 75 I plan to go sliding in sideways when my time comes, but one never knows when that time is and I've done a bunch of sliding already and plan a little more and hope the same for you.

 

[Spoonbill]

At 50 years old I regret more things I didnt do than than things I have done.

 

[300_whisper]

At 50 years old I regret more things I didnt do than than things I have done.

Me too...you’re not alone.

 

[Intheshop]

I've used up conservatively 6 or 7 lives(the wife says definitely higher?). Don't really feel like I left much on the table. The last M/C getoff a cpl years ago took right much of the remaining fight out.

If anyone needs to find me,it'll be chasing varmints with my Doberman.... but you're gonna need some good boots 'cause,the cellphone is back home.

 

[Fairchaser]

I’m 64 and trying to go on a once in a lifetime moose hunt this fall. It got cancelled last year due to COVID-19. I’m praying my health holds out long enough. I’ve been blessed to go on many other hunts over the years but I’m realizing that they are drawing to a close. If you’ve always wanted to go on a special trip, do it now! Time waits for no one.

 

[Kittitas George]

I’m 64 and trying to go on a once in a lifetime moose hunt this fall. It got cancelled last year due to COVID-19. I’m praying my health holds out long enough. I’ve been blessed to go on many other hunts over the years but I’m realizing that they are drawing to a close. If you’ve always wanted to go on a special trip, do it now! Time waits for no one.

Time waits for no one. You got that right!! Time can never be replaced. You can replace fly rods, rifles, nice cars, even a wife, but you can't replace the time, one it's gone, it's gone. Have a good time on your moose hunt. I was lucky enough to Bob Marshall Wilderness a number of times with an out fitter, a grizzly got a 6 point elk I shot, but it was still a wonderful trip. Have fun!!!

 

[nilebartram]

I think Mark Twain said this. " The two most important days in your life are, the day you are born and the day you find out why."

 

[muleman69]

I’m 64 and trying to go on a once in a lifetime moose hunt this fall. It got cancelled last year due to COVID-19. I’m praying my health holds out long enough. I’ve been blessed to go on many other hunts over the years but I’m realizing that they are drawing to a close. If you’ve always wanted to go on a special trip, do it now! Time waits for no one.

Good luck on hunt, were is it? You will be fine just go for it, what a great experience

 

[dryhumor]

As I read all the gloom and doom, too expensive to shoot and reload posts…..

I think all those folks should read this article. If you like shooting and reloading and it makes you happy, you should probably just view the current pricing as a “cost of living” increase, and go shoot.

I don’t even want to do the mental math on what my hobbies have cost in life. I figure I’ll break even when I kick the bucket.

Life’s always about timing and trade offs.

Just saying

 

[hogpatrol]

 

[hdskip]

A wise man told me this once: " Yesterday is a canceled check, tomorrow is a promissory note, today is all the cash you have, use it wisely".