Thursday, October 20, 2022
Keith would like to retire someday. Lately, he has been wanting to retire tomorrow, but I won’t let him, because I don’t know how to retire and neither does he. (And we just creak around like really old people, but we aren’t realllllly old yet.) I used to be in charge of the money – paying the bills and keeping track of things – but then automatic payments became a thing, so now no one keeps track. It just sort of goes along. So, since he has shown an interest in retiring someday, I thought we needed to learn a bit. I signed us up for a community ed. retirement class and it started tonight.
What happened was completely and totally unexpected. I mean, actually it was unbelievable. (UNBELIEVABLE) The class was at East Ridge High School – so in our district, but not my school. We followed the extremely convoluted directions about which door to go in (three different entrances were talked about – main, administrative, and southwest. We went in a door – the correct one – that was under giant lettering that said South Entry. That one was never mentioned.) and made it to the library. Class started. Words words words retirement money words…and so on, for a bit. The guy seemed pretty good, and he was going along fine, until he hit a snag. He didn’t know how to use the Smartboard. AND I DID!
Unless you are my friend, Maren, or Keith, you can NOT understand the depth of my issues with school technology. It breaks when I stand next to it. Technology people mutter a lot and say things like, “this has never happened before…”, “I have no idea…”, “this should work…”, “Can you just have them read it out of a book?” I click and click and nothing works and it is a bother to have to bother people to help me.
Tonight, my friends, I got to call directions out to the guy and he followed them and it worked. IT WORKED. It was a miracle.
BRAVA!!! There is indeed a god….
Ta-daaaaa
Exactly
Congratulations! A bucket-list worthy achievement, whether or not it was on your list. 🙂
I am writing my bucket list backwards, so this works perfectly
How to retire:
At age 50 draw a line down the center of a page.
On the left write down all the ‘goes outta’ stuff like house payments, car, taxes, living (food, power, etc)
On the right of the line write down the ‘goes into’ stuff like wages, retirement accounts, investments
Add up each side and compare.
At 50 you’ll have about 15 years to make the ‘goes into’ side really positive to live on for the next 25-30 years after retirement
If you are already older than that, good luck team.
Boom! Done
Uh oh, we missed the 50 year old cut off by a long shot. Good luck team