What would you do as a retiree?
 

Let's say you're like 70, and you have enough money to live comfortably but not terribly extravagantly. What would you do with your time? Would you carve decoy ducks? Poke around at garage sales looking for kitchy stuff? Would you knit, build a boat, donate your time to a soup kitchen? Is a stamp collection in your future?

Some old people hobbies would be awesome like birding and mushrooming. I don't live anywhere where mushrooms will make you hallucinate but they're still pretty tasty I hear. I'd probably also like to spend days reading in the sunroom, cause I'm quiet and also lazy. Travel would be bitchin' too but I don't know how much of that I'd be able to do.

I'd build the goddamn Bat Cave underneath my house.

We get an RV. And we spent our days just driving around the continent, chillin', relaxing, visiting all our retired Gamingforce friends. Havin' fires, drinkin' beers, all across the nation.

No place to go, nothing to do but relax fireside.

I would dig a hole. I would continue digging a hole until I found something Terrible Under The Depths Of The Earth.

I feel like I might volunteer, do some sort of outreach type thing. Maybe take in a stray or two. Also reading in a sun-room. I'd have a glass chandelier with lots of crystal dangly bits to scatter the light and make rainbows everywhere.

I would go into retail stores and restaurants to take advantage of senior discounts. I would try to sell the discounted items I purchased for a profit (I won't be able to depend on Social Security forever).

I'll probably keep drawing until the day I die.

Ideally, drawing comics until I croak at my work desk. Realistically though? Scooting around in a nursing home, pocketing pounds of potpourri in my purse and spitting in my caretakers eye as she tries to tuck me into bed.

I'd have a vegetable garden in the backyard. And there will be someone to be taking care of. Otherwise I would drive myself mad not having anything to do.

Build one of these bad boys and live in it. Excess causes me anxiety. Also probably have a garden and start to devote myself to art and traveling.

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Generally depends how rich I am at that point in time, and how healthy I am... BUT, I'd wanna write books and lecture in my post-55/60 days (retirement age is 55-60 in Mys)

I don't see myself ever retiring from my field, honestly. My hope is that when I reach the age of retirement, I'm healthy enough to keep going until I drop dead. Really depends on how healthy I am, too, but I would never want to be cooped up in a home or just sitting around all day. If I wasn't able to continue working, I'd be traveling all over the place while writing.

Running rascals and hooligans off the street with my electric wheelchair (that I don't need). F' yeah!

I would join in the " Gamingforce Forums" :-)

I couldn't stand it if I had nothing driving me - I've been there before in my life and I will do almost anything to avoid going back to that hell - so hopefully I'd be able to keep working in my chosen field. I like a lot of things people would class as retirement hobbies (knitting, listening to the radio, gardening, nature walks etc) but if that was the sole composition of my life I would probably end up putting a bullet through my head.

I'd start taking up everything I've ever wanted to learn but didn't have enough free time to focus on, and just go nuts doing all kinds of different things. I'd obviously keep composing and playing music, but I'd devote my extra time to everything else that I've ever wanted to do. Learning a bunch of languages would probably be high on that list, as would reading the books I have accumulated in my life.

I'd be spend my finding the meaning of life or volunteering at a historic site would be okay too if I ever got bored of the latter.

I would nap. A lot. Maybe take up curling or something. That or i would secretly start playing whatever video games were popular so that when any grandkids i may have ask me to play with them i can come out of nowhere and annihilate them all.

I'd travel. There are many countries that I want to visit

Obviously traveling would be very high on my list when I retire. I haven't had much time to travel with all the work that I've been doing. Obviously I'd be using all my free time to catch up on any films, books, video games that have eluded me.

I would like to undertake some kind of project to help keep me busy, but what it could be; I absolutely have no idea.

I would buy a boat, set out on the ocean, and live out the rest of my days never setting foot on land again.

...and most likely die within the first month.

I'll be in #gfchat.

Or I'll be like Clint Eastwood.

Just like Rychord I will
1.continue playing piano and
2.will probably be still be teaching.

also, I will

3.book a auditorium, give recitals to my family and close friends
-play chamber music with my wife/kids
-continue to play 2 piano stuff with my wife

4.book a holiday to the moon with my wife. kinda like a 2nd honeymoon thing at 70 :cool:
(hey 70 years old is 50 years from now so i bet there'll be affordable space travel by then)

i may want to take up painting and duck carving too.

I lived across a street from a lady that does this. Her yard and her consistency was something to be admired. There was something zen about her place! :)

For myself though, lol. I'll be honest, I hope I never grow old. But say I do... I'd hoping to be active and biking around as usual doing stuff I loved doing as a kid. I'd go to exploring, gardening and visit neighbors. Hopefully I'll have a couple great dogs by then too. I'd travel sure but lol, I find excitement often right at home! I'd love to be one of those doting ladies that just care about everyone and have a sense of community in the neighborhood or something. A busybody or a nosybody I suppose. Annoying but hopefully a nice one.

Another thing I could do is play all my backlog games. That should keep me pretty busy, and at the same time bathe myself in nostalgia.

Or I could live in the woods, and consume vast amounts of classical music, literature, and art.

But I would really like to have a small studio where I can create art. Draw, paint, write, take pictures, and stuff. That's a pretty creative and productive way to use up your remaining time on this Earth.