Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

If money were no object, what would you do in retirement?

111 replies

Retiringplans · Yesterday 20:03

What would be the one thing you would do when you retire if money was no object? Either an experience or something you look forward to doing regularly
I am likely retiring early in my 50's & I am restricted in my options due to being a full time carer and have considered all sorts of things from holiday homes to allotments most of which won't be possible with my young adult - I have also considered moving as I grew up near the sea & love it.
This is kind of a wishes & dreams question for a quiet Friday Evening so put it in AIBU

OP posts:
Likeiloveyou · Yesterday 20:04

I would travel extensively on my own and with friends and family.

Bigboldfont · Yesterday 20:06

Travel the world, paying for business class minimum, cruises with balconies, outsourcing all cleaning, cooking and laundry.

Poppycorn123 · Yesterday 20:11

I would move to a hot country, buy a nice house , car , clothes & food/drink and live there happily for the rest of my days!

Edictfromno10 · Yesterday 20:12

Travel the world and built an amazing garden

GettingFestiveNow · Yesterday 20:13

Go back to university. I love learning stuff. And travel.

Itsthewoluff · Yesterday 20:13

Travel, travel, travel whilst I was still healthy enough.

Folicky · Yesterday 20:14

Hard to disentangle from the money being no object part (repair current house, buy a bigger one on a country lane that is within walking distance of a main road; get a better car; get a set of tasteful veneers). Also I’d like to answer a different question which is how would you prepare for retirement if money was no object. I would earn enough money so I could do the above; drop a day at work so I could get some additional training that current job is never going to pay for and that involves a day per week study; make some links with the type of work I’d like to do part time when I retire from my current full time job. That’s for starters. What about you?

Ordonot · Yesterday 20:16

Travel - all the time - till I was too old to move.

Hedjwitch · Yesterday 20:26

Travel

TRS20 · Yesterday 20:28

Travel in luxury, buy a holiday home, go for nice lunches, treat family and friends

Ted27 · Yesterday 20:30

@Retiringplans
What do you think the issue with allotment would be ?
On my allotment site there are several community plots rin by schools and disability groups. If you don't think you could manage one on your own you could check out your local site and see what you could get involved in.

Personally I would relocate to the Isle of Wight. I dont drive so would spend on first class rail travel and possibly a personal driver

Vicliz24 · Yesterday 20:30

Travel all the way for me . Wouldnt be bothered about luxury travel but just see as much as I could while I was capable.

Gowlett · Yesterday 20:35

Get a Golden Girls situation going on with Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore & Nigella.

Retiringplans · Yesterday 20:44

@Folicky most of my ideas don't work for my personal circumstances, this is part of my issue.
I was widowed very young (40's) & therefore have sole responsibility for a SEND young adult, they struggle with travel & there are also rules around taking them abroad.
I would love to do the train trip & see the Japanese blossom - totally impractical with my young adult.
My latest dream is a property in Norfolk with a couple of holiday lets on the land, again totally impractical as I live in the north east & feel guilt about moving my child away from my late husbands family.

  • I want to work less as dealing with my child can be hard but I also worry about doing nothing & recently due to the heat my work has been reduced - I have noticed that I start to get twitchy & look for things to do
OP posts:
FlapperFlamingo · Yesterday 20:45

I’d live in the Maldives for a year and consider my options :)

ForPinkDuck · Yesterday 20:50

Get a shit ton of rescue pets.

Tunnocks34 · Yesterday 20:52

Buy at least a 5 bedroom farmhouse in Ireland with good amount of land and open an animal rescue whilst also ensuring I had enough money for my children to purchase a house themselves.

Retiringplans · Yesterday 20:54

@ForPinkDuck I love my dogs & I could do that in Norfolk with a little bit of land with the holiday lets 😁

OP posts:
LizandDerekGoals · Yesterday 20:57

Id travel. Golf, pilates, lunch with the ladies.

this week i found during a walk 24 almshouses in a beautiful village that are for women interested in community living. That is appealing…

Hollowvoice · Yesterday 20:58

Learn to play the saxophone.

LemonSnail · Yesterday 20:59

I am 57, I travel abroad 7 times a year, have joined an amazing spa place, made friends and have started a new hobby there. Weekends are family time, I visit my parent in their nursing home every 5 days and support my adult DC who has a disability.
I enjoy weekly trips to cinema and costal walks.
I love my life.

ilovesooty · Yesterday 20:59

Travel more and hire a personal chauffeur.

Elsvieta · Yesterday 21:00

Have several dogs and employ someone to look after them when I need / want to do something where I can't take them.

W0rryW0rm · Yesterday 21:00

Suggestions

Live on a boat on the Norfolk Broads, one that moves. There are some beautiful parts with lots of nature like Kingfisher birds, herons, fish, dragonflies.
Or a houseboat that does not move.
You would be close to the coast

Both volunteer together

Moonnstarz · Yesterday 21:00

I am writing as if I retired early due to winning the lottery or coming into a significant amount of money. Mine would be to travel and to also study degrees for fun. No pressure, just getting the chance to go to uni and learn about topics that interest me.

Swipe left for the next trending thread