Retirement

[ronk]

Quality time on the planet is the real currency!

[Nanu]

True but you need hard cash to enjoy it, or so the wife tells me

[ronk]

True but you need hard cash to enjoy it, or so the wife tells me

Thats so true - but as Mr Micawber said 'Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 19 pounds 19 shillings and six pence, result happiness. Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 20 pounds ought and six, result misery. '

[TitanTim]

Retired 10 years ago at 65. I don’t regret it at all,I did some consultancy work part time for a few years, very lucrative but figuring out the income tax was a nightmare.

One thing to get your head around Tim, when you eventually get the state pension you will find that no tax is deducted from it, HMRC cannot deduct tax. Instead, your tax code is adjusted on your occupational pension to extract the amount owing. Seems a bit bonkers but it all works out in the end

Thanks John, by the time I get there they will have moved the goal posts to 70

Tim.

[Nanu]

True but you need hard cash to enjoy it, or so the wife tells me

Thats so true - but as Mr Micawber said 'Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 19 pounds 19 shillings and six pence, result happiness. Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 20 pounds ought and six, result misery. '

How true, the wife wants happiness so work it is

[ronk]

[Mr Tidy]

Thanks John, by the time I get there they will have moved the goal posts to 70

Many a true word as they say!

McCarthy & Stone are building a new block of flats a couple of miles from me and the minimum age is 70.

[dr_john]

McCarthy & Stone are building a new block of flats a couple of miles from me and the minimum age is 70.

I qualify for that but is there somewhere to put the zed? And the wife’s Audi?

[ronk]

I think new builds must adhere to a code of practice that dictates parking to accommodation size?

[john-e89]

Have to say I wouldnt want to retire now, getting this new business up and running is pretty much perfect. First time in my working life I'm really happy.

Bloody drop dead tomorrow now.....

[Mr Tidy]

Mr Tidy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 13, 2022 10:03 pm

McCarthy & Stone are building a new block of flats a couple of miles from me and the minimum age is 70.
I qualify for that but is there somewhere to put the zed? And the wife’s Audi?

Looking at the footprint of the building and the size of the plot I think you'd be lucky to get 1 space!

[pvr]

Have to say I wouldnt want to retire now, getting this new business up and running is pretty much perfect. First time in my working life I'm really happy.

Bloody drop dead tomorrow now.....

Retirement is too dangerous for you, the damage you do when you are working is bad enough.

[john-e89]

Have to say I wouldnt want to retire now, getting this new business up and running is pretty much perfect. First time in my working life I'm really happy.

Bloody drop dead tomorrow now.....

Retirement is too dangerous for you, the damage you do when you are working is bad enough.

Listen here Van Helsing.....you just concentrate on getting your hand in your pocket to pay a proper welder for your mansion gates....one of those on your head an it's curtains.....

Actually, thinking about it.....carry on.....

[pvr]

Perfectly safe - mechanism is underground

[Smartbear]

Perfectly safe - mechanism is underground

Where it can slowly drown like an e85 roof motor
Rob