How do rich people...

[dannylion]

I expect some people would consider me rich.  I retired with a substantial nest egg and recently received a significant inheritance.  My pension is about twice my expenses, so I don't have to touch my investments, probably ever.  Here's what I do now that I'm retired and don't have to worry about money:

I volunteer in the hospital emergency room.

I socialize with friends. 

I am teaching myself Spanish.

I make arty quilts and wall hangings and inflict them on my friends and relatives.

I am learning new crafts (Korean and Chinese knotting at present). 

I have a small part-time job (medical transcription) that I kept because it is easy work and gives me more money for investing, but if I lost it tomorrow, it wouldn't matter.   

I peruse the animal rescue websites seeking a dog to adopt.  (I know better than to visit the pound--I would come home with all the dogs). 

I cook things that sound interesting.  It does not always turn out well. 

I go on outings with friends to museums or gardens or nearby places of interest.  Sometimes we go shopping, but not often.  Mostly we don't like shopping.

I putter around in my garden. 

I manage my investments. 

I read.  A lot.

I contemplate teaching myself Japanese. 

I translate Russian genealogical documents for friends and acquaintances and friends and acquaintances of friends and acquaintances. 

I take naps whenever I want. 

I do whatever I want.

Sometimes I don't do anything if I don't feel like it. 

[Malarky]

I finally know what I want to be when I grow up.  I want to be dannylion. 

[dannylion]

Aug 26, 2013 19:03:46 GMT -5 Malarky said:

I finally know what I want to be when I grow up.  I want to be dannylion. 

Cool!  I can add a new retirement activity:  Role model for Malarky. 

It's good to be me. 

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

Well, if I suddenly became fabulously rich, I would spend the first stretch of time just sitting.  Just sitting while someone else did all of the housework, shopping, cooking, chauffeuring the kids around, yard work, etc.  It would be sooooooo nice to have the enormous luxury of being able to just sit for a long spell with nothing that I absolutely had to do.

Then, after sitting a long while with nothing that I absolutely had to do (because I'd hired others to do it all), I'd be up and off and roaming the world and exploring everything and anything and trying everything and anything and simply doing it all.  

I'd do all that for about 30 years straight until I needed to sit for a long while again.  

[Otto the Orange]

Y do people worry about what other people do with their free time? As long as they r happy or think they r happy let them be.

Personally if i had the cash i would retire right now and travel anddo stuff other than work. If that doesn't work gor u don't hate on me.

I won't hate u for working 'till u die

Newsflash- people r different & diff things make diff people happy

[toomuchreality]

I am not under the impression that loony really cares what any of us do. She seems to want to know what will entertain her.

Get out your crystal ball


I don't know why you all are having such a hard time figuring this out!  Sheesh!

[Deleted]

tloonya we always new that you were hot stuff, but now there is proof.  Latvia has the world's most beautiful women.

randomstory.org/top-10-countries-with-most-beautiful-women/

[HoneyBBQ]

Aug 26, 2013 19:03:46 GMT -5 Malarky said:

I finally know what I want to be when I grow up.  I want to be dannylion. 

Me too!!!

[Deleted]

I'm not rich, but I don't worry about paying bills...I think about financial planning a little bit, but not much.

I think it's like anything else.  When people that are fat think about how great it would be to be thin, once they get there they probably don't sit there and think how great it is.  It's just the new norm.

[tloonya]

Aug 26, 2013 14:52:15 GMT -5 mmhmm said:

Aug 26, 2013 14:02:13 GMT -5 tloonya said:

Sure...where do I sign up? Pffffffff

You're usually asked, Tloonya.  If you put yourself out there, you will be asked if you have something to offer.

My sarcazm just got wasted...

[tloonya]

Aug 28, 2013 13:48:47 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

tloonya we always new that you were hot stuff, but now there is proof.  Latvia has the world's most beautiful women.

randomstory.org/top-10-countries-with-most-beautiful-women/

Archie!!!
I am not from Latvia!
Latvia's women are about as pretty as german women. They all look like vikings. I've been there...

[toomuchreality]

You tell 'em, tloonya!