Your Retirement Fear WHAT WILL I DO - Solution
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- Giving up on retirement because the fear of the unknown, work is safe and structured, retirement is not and it's scary. We have some answers for you, what you can do in retirement to fill your time.
Once retired you will wonder where you found the time to go to work. Having clear ideas of how to spend your time is the way to dispel retirement fear.
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5 years retired now and I knew when I started at 61 I would not lack for things to do. My employer of 35 years (Alberta Health Services) would have retirement seminars for staff. One thing I learned… take your vacation, it’s practice retirement. AHS would not let staff accumulate vacation (good on them). There’s so much to do in retirement, volunteer, travel, time with family, time to cook better, less processed meals. Everyday I wake up and I’m grateful for this part of my life that I earned.
Thanks for sharing Gail have a wonderful weekend Cheers ☕️🙂🍷
I retired (many years ago) on a Friday and on the Monday I was in the local hospital as a volunteer. Time to give back to my community! The added bonus is the social aspect, which many retirees miss.
Another comment...forget trying to sell your "stuff", as you will no doubt be disappointed at how little cash you will get from the amount of work you have to put into trying to sell it. DONATE it to local charities - again, giving back to your community and effectively clearing out your "stuff" (which - let's face it - no one else will value as much you did).
I love being retired, and am never bored. Don't let retirement disappoint you - have a plan, but also go with the flow. ENJOY.
Wonderful comment Sharon like you we love being retired and yes have the ability to change direction if needed have a great weekend Cheers ☕️🙂🍷
It's true, your valued items are just someone else's junk when it comes to selling it. There is a whole psychology behind why something is we own is worth more to us than to anyone else, even if we got it for free. It's an interesting topic but one to be aware of when you are trying to sell something.
So very true!! Believe me, NO ONE wants the silver tea set or the Royal Doulton figurines any more. I ended up taking mine to Value Village Charity Shop, and I think they ended up being sold as a job lot for pittance. But at least they no longer clutter my cabinets and I don't need to dust and polish them. @@ddavidson5
Very true thanks for sharing have a great weekend Cheers 🙂🍻
I've just retired and I kid you not I have just started reading books again.
I haven't time to read a book for over 15 years.
Isn’t that wonderful 📚 must admit we never had the time either now it’s relaxing to sit and read 🙂📚☕️
Went through thousands of slides and scanned them to files on the computer where they could be shared. Bought the machine at my London Drugs store and sold it afterwards. My tip is that when I was looking at pictures of family vacations, or in particular vacations of my parents, discard the photograghs with no relatives in them. Scenery photos are not particularly worth keeping unless you were the one taking the picture or they have historical significance. That can ease the process significantly.
Great tip Lorene thanks for sharing enjoy your weekend Cheers ☕️🙂🍷
Retired 4 years, just sold the house and moving to an apartment. A whole basement of furniture and storage crates. 9 trips to Goodwill, a U-Haul truck took furniture to younger relatives, Christmas tree and decorations to Goodwill, anything left goes to “Got Junk” who will give away good furniture to the needy. Feels great to get rid of old clothes, shoes, suits to those who need it. Making enough from the house, no need to sell, just give it away. The relief feels great, pictures are last but will be sorted or given out to family soon. We are keeping only what we need, no emotion to old stuff that may represent an old memory but never used, dump it. If anything happens to us, we leave nothing left for our kids to sort out but our existing furniture. Now we can lock the door and travel.
Isn’t it a wonderful feeling welcome to apartment living lock the door and go have a great weekend Cheers ☕️🙂🍷
I’m 59.5 and giving my notice in two weeks! Whooohoooo!
That’s fantastic congratulations 🥳 welcome to the new chapter in your life Cheers ☕️🙂🍷🍻
This is something that I didn't have the slightest issue with although 10 years before I retired it might have been a different story.
I got to about 50 yo and as I started seeing people around me get sick or dying and decided that working until I died wasn't for me. I stopped doing overtime unless absolutely necessary and thought more about what I wanted to do when working ended.
Fortunately the decision to stop the job I had been in for over 15 years was made for me when the site was closed so I didn't even have to question whether I had made the "right" decision. I could have gone back to work, and had some previous workmates try to get me to go back, but I couldn't bring myself to do it even if it meant more shiny toys.
I don't even have set goals of what I want to do or when and just make it up as I go along or when I feel like it. Drives my wife a bit nuts but after decades of having to get up at a set time and work to timetables/schedules I'm loving it.
My "job" now is to enjoy whatever time I have left and I can do as little or as much as I like on a daily basis.
Today I fried up some homegrown fresh Beans with some home grown Garlic, home grown Cherry Tomatoes, Chilli Powder and some leftover Ham we had.
Tasted amazing, cost very little and also gave a nice feeling of satisfaction from using what we have grown.
Sure beat spending 30 bucks on some crap takeaway.
Sounds wonderful thanks for sharing enjoy your retirement together Cheers 🙂☕️🍻
I have a colleague who retired, got bored and came back to work. This is a scenario that I want to avoid. Once I retire, it would be for good. That is an important factor in my not taking the plunge just yet.
You do need a plan ! we are so busy with everything no time to be bored in fact it’s hard to fit everything we want to do in Cheers ☕️🙂🍻
Downsize? Well we did the opposite and moved from a 685sq ft bungalow in Vancouver to a 2400sq ft house on Vancouver Island. I bought my wife a Roland keyboard so she could start playing piano again. I always wanted to learn to play guitar, so I bought one from a music store in a nearby town and took lessons. Now I have 3 acoustic guitars and 1 electric. Oh plus on a recent trip to Greece I bought a Bouzouki, so I am learning to play that. Learning and playing music keeps the brain challenged and can spend hours doing it. Last thing is like to cook/bake so I experiment with different foods, middle eastern, greek, indian, french, for baking I do baguettes, croissant, (cookies for my wife). We also spend a lot of time gardening and sea kayaking. Have to admit not every day is exciting but we keep busy.
After my Dad died we gathered photos of his life from birth to about age 25. All the photos were in B&W. We made a coffee table book and gave it each of my Dad’s grandchildren. The grandchildren, without exception, said “..this is the best Christmas present ever”. It brought each of the 5 grandchildren to tears.
What a wonderful story thanks for sharing Robert have a great weekend Cheers ☕️🙂
Wonderful idea. I may start working on one to give at Christmas next year!
Great idea. Starting early is a good thing.
Absolutely right on. Decluttering and converting possessions to a smaller footprint (like your digitizing project) has been a project for me over the past year and it feels really good, especially when others can make use of the things you no longer need. Have been retired for 10 years (wow, that's hard for me to believe) and initially took a deep dive into photography myself, returning to community college for courses when I first retired, then photography clubs and events since. Now I help coach others informally and even give the occasional presentation. I'm as busy as I want to be. I love being able to plan my day as I wish to (and changing my mind if another idea comes up!). Retirement for me has been the best time of my life, but the only reason it was so was because I had a plan for my retirement - not just a financial plan - an activity plan. A bit more travel will be in the mix next year.
Thanks for sharing we agree you need a plan for money and what to do Cheers ☕️🙂🍷
Being forced to work on my mental, emotional and spiritual health, along with physical health is what I've found most rewarding. And also a return to serving people. If one is patient enough you will eventually find people to serve. It took me at least a year.
Thank you for sharing with us have a wonderful weekend Cheers ☕️🙂
I read your comment with interest. Jesus said “I am the way, the truth and the life; no-one comes to God except through Me (John 14:6). Jesus wants you to to cast all your cares on Him because He cares for you (1 Peter 5:7). Only by repenting of sin and trusting in Jesus to guide your life are you spiritually safe for all eternity. I encourage you to prayerfully read The Holy Bible ❤
Your experience made me think about my retirement seriously.
After my mom passed I ended up with lots of her stuff. I am having a hard time purging things that belonged to her. Especially things that were dear to her. She was a photographer as well and had loads of slides. I still can’t go through them. Still makes me so sad.
It is a very difficult thing to do Ella , we will end up keeping the photos in boxes even though we will save digitally too Cheers 🙂☕️
I lost my dad 24 years ago. Your mom lives on in your memories. Enjoy those memories, objects simply trigger your memories. A photo of a tea cup will trigger the same memories as the tea cup. Treasure those memories.
Hey T&N, another great video and timely topic. Great advice I received was, "don't retire FROM something, retire TO something". People should have a plan before retiring.
I got bored and got a part time job at Home Depot. As an "old guy" I'm amazed at how much fun it is helping 'youngin's' do thier DIY projects. It's not about the $, it really helps the brain as well. And working with young people keeps you young too.
Keep up the good work and again, LOVE the salutation...feels like you're my uncle Tom saying "'till we meet again".
What great advice Steve you are retiring to a wonderful new chapter in your lives and we all love ❤️ Home Depot as they say till we meet again have an awesome weekend Cheers ☕️🙂🍻
I love being retired and after 10 years have still not found time to be bored. I have done most of your suggestions. All the pictures and family histories have been digitalized and shared. A great project I have done was to write and illustrate a family cookbook which I share to friends and family in pdf format. I contacted cousins and aunts and requested they send me a favourite family recipe and the reason they liked it. I then typed it up, standardized the measurements and drew an picture of the finished dish - very rewarding project for all. Although I have drastically downsized I am still worked on getting rid of piles of totes.
We hear you Susan those totes seem to be the big problem we are still busy working on , have a great weekend Cheers ☕️🙂🍷
My husband is re-reading his books. Those which inspire or intrigue hm go back on the shelf, those that don't go on the community bookshelf. I can honestly say 95% leave the building. Throwing out the photo albums is heartbreaking. I remove the photos and have made envelopes. Who ever is in the photo gets the 'paper' copy. I've sent a few thickish envelopes and they are well received. Often the person(s) in the photo didn't have a copy r have fond memories of who ever is in the photo or of the event captured. We run out of time each week Norm and Tina. No way will we ever be bored. Roll on our freedom. 👌🇳🇱🙋♀🇳🇿
Don’t think we will ever throw them out Anita too many memories seems a good idea in theory LOL we hope you have a wonderful weekend Cheers 🇳🇱☕️🍷🇨🇦🙂
Totes! Ugh! I sold in Calgary in June, bought a smaller house in NS in July. Most of my life is still in totes. My retirement ambition is to be tote free! 😂😂😂
That’s a great ambition! Carol we brought way too much stuff with us have a wonderful weekend Cheers ☕️🍷🙂
Totes?
@@joycegonzales4994big plastic storage bins
@@joycegonzales4994plastic crates
My dad passed at aged 95 in Dec of /21. I was his executor and found it very interesting to go through his pictures. He never really talked about his homeland that he left in /51 (England), or really told us why he left. Going through his photo albums, I found old pictures of him, as a child of 3, and the servants. The family had both men and women servants from when they lived in Africa while his father was there with the military. I just wish I had seen these pictures while he was alive and we could have talked about them.
Sometimes it’s strange as to why our parents don’t want to share their lives as often we would find their lives so interesting yet they don’t want to talk about it while they are alive . Hope you have a wonderful weekend Cheers 🙂☕️🍷
We also have changed to a tabletop Christmas tree! My mother is 88 years old and decorating a large tree became too much for her and it was her favorite activity of the Season that she would not let me help her with! With the table she can set a little decorations and candles around the tree and we also light a menorah because my dad was jewish. So it's a beautiful time of year and even though it's smaller it's just as pretty and nice for the season!
Sounds lovely Savannah thanks for sharing we love our small tree 🎄Cheers 🇺🇸🎄☕️🇨🇦🙂
These are all so good! I would add that if you find you have some extra time in retirement, you can ask your adult children or family members if THEY would like help with a project. I have been delighted and spent many pleasant hours visiting with family while we worked on something together,. Obviously the trick is that they chose the project, not you.
A great idea thanks for sharing Leslie enjoy your weekend Cheers ☕️🙂🍷
I am currently going through my attic and doing similar downsizing exercises. One thing about the photos. Go through them with your kids. Make an evening of it. My father horded the old photos of our family we were never allowed to go through them and now he has passed away and it would have been wonderful to share those memories with him.
That’s a great tip thank you have a great weekend Cheers 🙂☕️🍻
I’m 70. Still working part time. I need to be around people. Thanks.
Everyone is different Betsy we are happy for you ❤️🤗
I had 240 music CDs I convinced a guy to buy them from me for $40, after we did the exchange I took him to Lunch. I ended up about $5 but got the CDs into the hand of someone who will enjoy them. Keep on purging stuff, it’s just STUFF!
Sounds like a great deal have a great weekend Cheers ☕️🙂💽🍻
Like the ideas today. When we downsized I just gave away all of my LPs. As the oldest of 8 children I have all of our family photos as well as my own family. I just might look into that idea.
Thanks again for sharing. Always enjoy seeing you. Be well and stay safe.
Hi Tina and Norm. I made it, day one of retirement! You’re such a help toward making me feel confident in this new chapter. Great ideas in this video to keep busy through the winter and make my home less cluttered! 🎉
I hope it is wonderful!
You are so welcome! congratulations Janet on your retirement 🥳🥂and the new chapter of your life have a great weekend Cheers 🙂🎄🍷☕️
Thanks a lot! Always good input.
Our pleasure have a wonderful weekend Cheers ☕️🙂🍻
Love your little chats & thanks for the great ideas. Happy holidays!
You are so welcome! Happy Holidays to you too ☕️🎄🙂
I walked the Camino de Santiago this year and lived out of a small backpack for 6 weeks. It's amazing how little stuff one actually needs! It was a very liberating experience. I spent several months purging things when I returned home.
I’ve been downsizing ever since retirement. My goal is todo this once a month. It’s nice to have more room and easier to organize! I got rid of my big tree a few years ago and use a table top size also 🎅Small town USA 🇺🇸 have a great week 🍻 cheers !
That’s great Cinde we love our little tree 🎄we keep going at the totes ! have an awesome weekend Cheers 🇺🇸🎄☕️🙂
I digitized all my original Beatles, James Browm, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Frank Sinatra and Chuck Berry vinyl albums and donated them to Good Will. Saved me tonnes of space!!
Awesome 🙂☕️
Just digitised all my old photos. And now making a colargee with the unwanted photos.
All photos are now on a digital photo frame hours of memories.
It’s been so worth while.
We digitized our family photos and videos of our children a few years ago. Managed to load all of them on 256gb usb drives to include with Christmas gifts to our children last year. Will look for the book you mentioned as we live on the coast of the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia with two cats and know of a number of grand children that would enjoy it!! Happy Holidays.
The book is very enjoyable Tina is enjoying reading it , we have put a link to Amazon in the description have a wonderful weekend Cheers ☕️🙂🍷
AGAIN some great ideas. Very much appreciated.
From our home to yours, wishing you a Christmas 🎄 season full of, Love, Laughter & Warm memories new & old.
~ Ben Y, Vancouver ISLAND
Thank you Ben we wish you a lovely Christmas and holiday celebration too , it’s so nice at the moment we are actually cleaning windows 🪟 outside ! Cheers ☕️🎄❤️🍻
Great information, thank you. And merry christmas!
Thanks and Merry Christmas 🎄 Linda have a great weekend Cheers ☕️🙂🍷
Great video guys! I have some many old videos of my kids and family that I can't wait to digitize some day : )
That is awesome! have a wonderful weekend Paul Cheers ☕️🙂🍻
I’ve been doing the same with photos, I am keeping some originals too, but it helps to prioritise which you actually want to save digitally, the originals or even throw away
We are doing the same but we don’t think we will be able to get rid of all the photos it’s who we are and lots of memories Cheers ☕️🙂🍷
Good ideas! Thank you. The LP record thing is very cool. See you in your next video!
Thanks! You too Jodie ☕️🙂🍷
Thanks for more great ideas! We travel quite a bit and my husband loves to take pictures, one his hobbies now is to create photo books. They have turned out beautifully and our kids are so thankful they don't have to sit through hours long slideshows! Thanks for all you do and looking forward to your Portuguese adventures!🥰
That is awesome! we have photo books too we love them great talking point too Julie have a wonderful weekend Cheers ☕️🙂🍷
We downsized into early retirement at 51 and 53 next month. Getting rid of all that crap was liberating. It also means if we need to return to Canada to make some money we don’t have a bunch of junk with us.
Retire overseas. Retiring in Canada is a financial disaster.
Doing all the suggested things post retirement is a waste imho. Do all that work in the year leading up to it.
We wish you both well with your travels , we personally prefer to have a base (our apartment) of which to do our travels from . Actually Canada 🇨🇦 is a great place to retire in have a wonderful weekend Cheers ☕️🙂🇨🇦🍻
@@ThisIsOurRetirement we would be curious as to where in Canada you are from.
The reality is this;
Cost of living is through the roof.
Rent or real estate is insane.
Healthcare might be covered but is hard to access and slow.
The weather - for people retiring, sucks.
So can you really explain to us how Canada is good to retire? I'm genuinely curious as a Canadian Citizen.
I will take my $52k a year in tax free dividend income and live abroad... but why on earth would someone take Canada?
Like for real.
AWWH such a cute little boy pic. and Tina in Charge! I 💝 it This was an awesome video guys. Just when I think I've learned all I could do in retirement, you guys hit me with a new one. I am literally downsizing as we speak. shreading papers between videos. What to do w/pics in frames? PROBLEM SOLVED! THANK YOU GUYS you're awesome. 🤗💝🥂
Goodmorning Tina and Norm. Thumbs up everyone 👍👍👍
Good morning Fay ☕️ we would love ❤️lots of thumbs up 👍 it would be amazing to get that Silver Plaque have a great weekend Cheers ☕️🙂🍻
Hi Tina & Norm. Great ideas. Been watching for a few years now. Can’t wait to see shows on your upcoming trip to Portugal. Funny thing though we have been retired for over 10 years now and we pulled out our old music albums (vinyl) and started listening to them again. If you want to sell your albums privately let me know. I think our preferred music is very similar based on your t-shirts … lol’s. You never know you might want to go back to old school listening again. Cheers from Nancy & Mike.
That’s wonderful that you are listening to your LPs , we will let you know if and when we sell have a great weekend Cheers Mike ☕️💽🙂🍻
Excellent suggestions for preserving records and photos.
Glad you like them! ☕️🙂
Hi you giys. Looking super sharp today, Tina and Norm! Great ideas indeed. I'm 3 years retred next week and the time has flown!!! I do help look after my 90 year old dad but he's no trouble. I'm never bored. I read and listen to books on Audible, watch movies on Netflix, swim in the sea, a few times a week, year-round. Going to lunch and the cinema alone and with friends and family, supporting my local rugby team, studying French and travelling, keep me busy!!! I'm in the middle of a clearout before Christmas and it's really amazing what stuff I thought I needed, and don't! Let's just say, the recycling station and the local charity shops are doing well by me lately. Am lucky to have family nearby, too, so that's great. Really enjoy watching your videos. I look forward to catching up with you every week. 😊
We are 8 years retired and loving it thanks for watching and have a great weekend Cheers ☕️🙂🍻
Hi Tina& Norm good to see you again I think the book club would be a great idea.
Take care Christopher Barker
Thanks Christopher have a great weekend Cheers 🇬🇧🍻🇨🇦
Pictures are our nemesis…we have boxes and boxes as well & need to digitize then get rid of them.
We agree it sounds a great idea but really hard to do as it’s our life and memories, we hope you both have an awesome weekend Cheers 🇺🇸☕️🙂🇨🇦
One Foot in the Grave. All this digitizing and decluttering is well and good, but my idea of retirement is to explore new territory rather than live in the past. I'm afraid I'm guilty of accumulating even more clutter in retirement. I just recently bought an Italian espresso machine and am contemplating getting into coffee roasting. The espresso machine was expensive and something I would never have dreamed of purchasing prior to retirement. It's a new interest to pursue before we take off on our next trip.
Enjoy your coffee ☕️ best start to the day we love it Cheers ☕️🎄🍷🙂
There's some really great ideas in there. I have digitized all my music and have done some photo scanning but will try out some of the apps you mentioned to see if I can get better quality images then I got from my printer scanner - cheers!
Have fun! ☕️🙂
Hi Norm and Tina: I love streaming music on Qobuz. Customer for life. Albums and a lot of cd’s are long gone. Our new car does not even have a cd player. Tough to give up whole collection. My wife spent months sorting pictures. We have been downsizing for years. Thanks for the tips. Have a great weekend. Cheers!
Thanks for watching Paul hope you both have a wonderful weekend and enjoy this nice weather while it lasts Cheers ☕️🙂🍻🍷
You are so lovely people... reading books is always a good decision I think. I recently started reading ebooks, I had great doubts but now I like it so much. Also a good way of downsizing 😊
Thanks for sharing!! have a great weekend Cheers 🙂☕️🥂
Looking sharp Tina and Norm 👍
Thanks Paul have a great weekend Cheers ☕️🙂🍻
Check your local libraries for digitizing facilities. Our Cambridge library has two rooms that you can use free of charge to digitize old videos, pictures or music from various media. They even have editing software to use. It is a great project to work on!
Awesome thanks for sharing
Thanks for the advice - all good things for someone else, maybe? I retired from full time work 7 years ago at the age of 62. I have been fortunate enough to do part time consulting (engineering) work where I can pick and choose the projects that I want. I have also been doing a fair amount of traveling, both with organized tour groups, and more preferably by RV. I am considering hanging it up early next year, but am not entirely committed to it. The thought of sitting around recording old music or digitizing old photos makes me shudder. If I want to keep my mind sharp (as Norm suggests) I would rather solve a few differential equations or quadratic equations (by hand with a calculator), than squint at a bunch old photos. If I really got motivated, I would rather write a book, than read a book. To each his own.... but keep on doing what you two are doing, because you are providing the value of your knowledge and past experiences to help others at this stage of life.
We retired at 58 and 60 Bobby and we have travelled a lot as that’s what we wanted to do , then Covid came !! we are just suggesting ideas as so many of our viewers feel lost and don’t know what to do .
Bye the way listening to LPs and uploading them digitally, and looking or squinting at photos is our life and we are so proud of our memories as that is who we are Cheers ☕️🙂🍻
Have a great holiday and trip guys Happy Holidays !
Happy holidays to you too , we are looking forward to being back in the Algarve Cheers 🇵🇹🍻☕️🍷🇨🇦
Merry Christmas Tina and Norm. Just wondered where you got that little tree from? I've had my little tree for many years now, but the lights in it have failed and I can't find another small tree like yours. Thanks!
Giant Tiger Terry we love it Cheers 🍻🎄☕️
Merry Xmas you two.
Merry Christmas to you too 🎅🎄🙂
Great ideas. Don't forget about getting rid of books. With readers, audiobooks, and electronic checkout from the library, you can read about anything. And, I found when getting rid of things, I snapped photos of things I wanted to remember. Being single, I live in a high-rise studio condo and travel quite a bit. Nothing ever felt better than getting rid of all that "stuff/junk". Swedish Death Cleaning, I think it is called.
Great ideas guys. Let us know how you get on when you flog your records please. Definitely need to digitize our photos. Have a great Christmas and looking forward to videos from Portugal. Cheers.
Will do!!
I did the photo organising during the first lock down - took me three weeks, full days of it doing nothing else. It made me not overtake photos in future 😁
Thanks for sharing! 🙂
I was picturing tote bags but when I saw the picture I realized you were talking about storage bins...lol....gotta luv them Brits 😃
Love it!! either way we still have lots of totes LOL 😂😂Cheers ☕️🙂
That’s funny. I thought as well…tote bags?
Love the shirts!
Thanks so much Susan have a wonderful weekend Cheers ☕️🙂🍷
Thoroughly enjoyed your suggestions here today. Have already downsized to my mini tree, but have a huge amount of family photos. What exactly did you do when you 'got rid' of all those photos. Many form part of history, do you donate them. As an artist am forever adopting photos from charity shops, then regretting it, I don't possess a studio to store them!
We haven’t got rid of any photos yet and even though we will store them on computers can’t see us getting completely rid of them as you say it’s our history Cheers ☕️🙂🍻🍷
I can relate to this, all of our children have left us this year and off to university.
We have planned to start downsizing, sell our home and moving into a smaller home in early spring of next year …. 2024
If anyone has gone through this process, please feel free to reach out and let us know what you would have done differently to better handle this situation.
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Thanks for watching have a wonderful weekend Cheers 🙂☕️
I gave everything away when I retired! I wanted to travel the world. Covid thwarted my plans but I downsized from an almost 1700 square foot home into what fit in a rented Toyota Corolla.
Currently I’m thriving in less than 91 square feet but I travel ALL the time.
Life is about experiences not things.
Totally agree enjoy your travels Kimberly Cheers ☕️🙂🍷
We continue to enjoy your videos and topics, Tina and Norm. Thank you. In this latest one, you mention digitizing all of your in-storage photos, and then disposing of the photos. That is one of the much-delayed tasks that we have on our list. However, we’ve wondered more than once: What does “getting rid of” the old photos mean? Throw them out, cast into a bonfire, somehow (securely) recycle them? It does become a thorny question. What are your thoughts about what you will do to dispose of your old photos, post-digitization?
In reality it seems a good idea in theory ! but we can’t see us getting rid of them so they will be the boxes we will still keep in the closet Cheers 🙂☕️🎄
I was able to donate some of our families old photographs (that contained views from the past in our city) to the city museum. They like to have the originals. I have seen some of them used in materials produced!
could you please tell me about the usb for transferring your records or do you have a link where to buy?
We use this turntable as it converts to mp3 and will work on Mac or PC, the software is really easy to use, here is a link : geni.us/RrPG9
More good tips to prepare for retirement. I need to start selling things I don't plan to take with me when I move. Have started the home repairs. As for retirement, I have several woodworking projects I've wanted to make for years, such as a demilune table veneered in mahogany with English style marquetry. I plan to go back to the Cotswolds and walk the entire 103 mile Cotswold Way. At the moment, I must finish making my trifle and Irish soda bread for a Christmas party. Trust you're keeping well!
Norm actually walked the penine way , Trifle is Tinas favourite dessert Cheers ☕️🙂☕️
The Pennine Way makes the Cotswolds Way look like a walk through Hyde Park. Well done, Norm! As for the trifle, it came out well; the Americans liked it. There is some left over that I came have some after lunch. Enjoy your day. Look forward to more fun, educational videos.
Yes please start a book of the month club I’m sure lots of followers would get the book and can be discussed end month
Thanks for your comment Cathey have a great day 🙂☕️
Hi Norm and Tina. We've begun the downsize here. We clean out the wardrobes when the seasons change. If we have not worn it in a years time, we get rid of it. So We wash and fold everything and leave all the clothing for people in our building, (down in the vestibule going to the garage and trash dump) since we have a large immigrant and student population, who might need something they don't have. I've tried the online selling stream, and people tend to only want to nickel and dime me. They won't pay what a piece of clothing is worth or what I paid for it. This past change over, I just bagged and trashed everything, because I wasn't going to go through uploading all that crap to a website for sale. We have "totes" too. They are sitting on the balcony right now, (which we don't ever use). And recently, I've begun the hunt for a new home to live in for next summer, before the Quebec moving date of July 1st, (yep, Canada Day) I have a ton of books I want to get rid of as well, but there aren't any book buy back shops in Montreal any longer. And when there were, I could never make a trade on my collections, UGH!! I have a record player, too, and a few records. But all of that music is already digitized on my I tunes player. Christmas is still a big deal for my husband so getting rid of our tree is a non-starter. Happy Christmas !!
Thanks so much for sharing we do agree that selling things on line is a lot of hassle and people want to get things for nothing , we do still enjoy Christmas 🎄 and our small tree is wonderful for the big tree and decoration s we visit family Cheers ☕️🙂🍷
I was thinking this might be the last big Christmas tree. My kids are 20 and 22 and I'm 61. We all agree that we can enjoy Christmas w/o a big tree. // I'm going to share the info on Photomyne. This summer I used my phone to take photos of one of my mom's albums. So tedious. My cousin Martin in the UK has promised to do something similar. His mum passed away recently. It might be easier to tackle future projects with Photomyne? I have a few boxes of photos and slides and some negatives that sit under a console table behind my sofa. My #1 project once I slow down at work or retire soon. THANKS!
Thanks for sharing we love our tree , it came with the lights on as well we got it at Giant Tiger Cheers ☕️🙂🍷
I bought a record player to transfer music from records to digital and after I did about 10 of 500 something happened to the software and everything after was distorted so I put it aside until I reinstall the software.
I also ripped about 3500 songs from my CD’s into my iTunes and my phone, but when I got a new phone all the music was wiped out except for two albums I had bought from Apple. I hadn’t connected to iTunes in years and can’t find it now and my old computer has stopped working so all that music only remains on an old iPod that doesn’t have internet.
I recommend saving music and photos on a couple storage devices like hard drives or USB/SD cards that could be plugged into different computers. I have all my old CD’s in boxes in the basement for the last 15 years, so they can be copied again.
I might be able to save time as I have seen gizmos to recover old hard drives and I had saved the old hard drives when I threw away old computers.
I have my photos on Google and Amazon and my iPhone, but I still have the pictures and negatives in a couple boxes.
I’ll probably keep the physical photos and sell the records and CD’s once I copy them again.
We will probably never get rid of the photos it’s our life and full of memories Ken seems a good idea in theory we hope you have a wonderful weekend Cheers ☕️🙂🍷
Well I just retired about 4 days ago and I am scared as hell! I know that is not the usual but I am. I am 61 had worked in my field for 37 years and was tired of working. But now what....?
I’m closing in on retirement, and I'd love to move from Minnesota to a warmer climate, but home prices are ridiculous now.. do I look at other assets and wait for housing crash, or go ahead with house purchase anyways?
Have fun in Portugal 🌷🥰
Thank you we will Cheers 🇵🇹🙂🇨🇦☕️
Slightly off topic but just one thing we do with our retirement. Unfortunately we know one of us will die 1st or maybe end up with dementia. So we take a yearly separate holiday with friends of family. Also do a different hobby to get used to being alone. However as we all know, nobody really knows what the future holds. But can we survive without each other is important? My own Mum outlived my Dad by 30 years. She was lonely for a long time. Then she took up bridge which was a life saver for her.
interesting ideas, our take is to spend every moment together
@@ThisIsOurRetirement This another side to retirement! Are you prepared if you are left alone. Something we all hate to think about.
My 90 yr old uncle asked me to move in to help him with nightly toilet runs, seeing I am retired and do nothing (except taking care of my mother). He has children but he asked me to be a caregiver. I said no way.
Wow that’s pause for thought 🤔 thanks for sharing 🙂☕️
Lunch with Norm and Tina! You're looking fancy today Norm! Tina always looks beautiful
Thanks so much Valda enjoy your lunch Cheers ☕️🙂🍷
Lisbon and Porto lose 30% of holiday rental properties . The Portugal news site
I upside after retirement! Went from 2,000 sq. ft. home to 5,000 sq. ft. in a very exclusive neighborhood!😁👍🙆🏻♂️
We are all different , personally happy with less cleaning than more ! Cheers 🍻
I'm looking forward to retirement in just under two years, and I have soooo many plans. I can't wait == it'll be like a second childhood.
It is a great life Cathy have a wonderful weekend ☕️🙂🍷
How do you rip CDs?
I think we have 600 cds and probably 300 dvds...oh dear!!! But i still prefer looking and picking from a cd.
We have those too Nikki LOL 😂😂
watch you guys, farmer tyler, just a few acres, sonne farms, passive income, thanks for the great ideas
Your welcome have a great weekend Cheers 🍻🙂
Looking at part time jobs as I am retired 6 years and need to be around people.
Maybe also consider joining a seniors centre Barbara where they have lots of activities going on great way to meet others Cheers 🙂☕️🍷
guess a lot of people think that way happy christmas guys
*👍like👍🎅Au👀always fully viewing🎅*
Merry Christmas Billy from our house to yours 🎅🇦🇺 🎄🇨🇦🍻☕️
O but you have to keep a few vinyls.
Oh we are sure we will 💽 Pamela such great memories of our past as to everyone else you might be our ages ! Cheers ☕️🙂🍷
Thanks!
Thanks so much Stephen have a wonderful weekend 🙂☕️
Retirement fears seem to be what will I eat?, how will I pay rent?, how will I manage to survive on the meagre CPP?
Those are very much fears June we do understand that hopefully with OAS and GIS things will work out for you have a nice weekend 🙂☕️🍷
@ThisIsOurRetirement My comment wasn't based on my own circumstances but rather upon that of many I know. As for myself, I always lived within my means. Every penny went directly into a saving account upon which cheques could be written. Using the SA was not the best or wisest financial plan, but it helped me survive through being right-sized, down-sized, made redundant, horizontally loaded and having my employment shipped offshore to India/ China/ Mexico, etc. All this despite the fact that I am a well-educated person. The common belief is that the jobs of only blue-collar workers were trashed, but that's not true.
Tina and Norm could you really, actually throw away all your special photo books of your parents and yourselves??? Digitizing really wouldNot cut the mustard
Or be acceptable in my family. Actually touching the portraits that your parents once held?
Good luck for you, and Merry Christmas! ✨ 🕊 ✨
No not really ! seemed a good idea but those boxes will be with us for life it’s all our memories and Merry Christmas 🎄 to you too Cheers ☕️🙂🍻
Sign up to volunteer at Red Cross is my thing.
Great idea giving back as a volunteer Cheers ☕️🙂🍷
While I’ve yet to master this, the ideal approach is to remove one item (or two) for every item brought in, such as removing an item of clothing for each new piece added.
Well sounds a great idea in theory we will work more on that Murray Cheers ☕️🙂🍻
Another way to add purpose in retirement is to volunteer with a local service club. There you will find friendships while making a difference in the lives of others. 😊
That's a great idea! thanks for sharing Jeff Cheers ☕️🙂🍻
So after you finish downsizing do you sit on the curb and say, "I don't know. What do you wanna do?"
We think it will be a while before we get there LOL 😂have a great weekend Alan Cheers ☕️🍻🙂
i grow a small goatee in retirement like so many retirees
Thanks for sharing 🙂
Me too.
So did my wife!😂
Move to The Villages, Florida and partake in any number of clubs and activities! We have over 3,000 to choose from! We’ll keep you busy for sure. Additionally, you’ll be retiring with your peers in the largest 55+ community in the US.
Sounds great! have a wonderful weekend Pat Cheers 🇺🇸☕️🇨🇦🙂
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We are currently in Albufeira, just wanted to add to the list-learn a new language.
Good idea hope you are enjoying your trip Cheers 🇵🇹☕️🇨🇦
@@ThisIsOurRetirement Yes, it is our second winter trip to Albufeira, near Praia de Ouro, we love it.😀
As soon as I stop working my rear end off, the first thing I’m going to do upon retirement is to find a spouse!
I was thinking the same. Unless I will find him prior to retirement :) it is more fun to retire together!
We wish you well Vic hope you find someone nice Cheers ☕️🙂🍻
We do wish you well have a wonderful weekend Cheers 🙂🍷🍻
No tea shirt Norm
All his T-Shirts are in the Totes.....
The shirt he has on in this video is very smart looking
Variety is the spice of life Willy !! Cheers 🍻
Too funny Mike 😂😂
Thanks Mark Tina thinks so too 🍻Cheers 🙂