Do you know how you want to grow old together?

[domeafavour]

Ideally how would you like to spend your retirement? What do you see yourselves doing together? Have you talked about it in depth? Just realised we have never really discussed it. Oh dear!!

I see dh playying with his model airplanes and me working (seeing as I am SAHM now I have vision of self working later). And us having lovely times together.

It will probably be just like now. I'll be doing some stuff on the computer, and DH will be snoring on the sofa in front of the telly!

Hopefully in good health and able to do some travelling in between being surrounded by lots of chubby grand-babies

There are lots of places that we have never been and will never be able to afford while we have kids to cart around with us!

these are really sweet

Winnie The Pooh: "?If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.?

We hope to travel abroad and take cycling and walking holidays here in England.
Love our kids but secretly looking forward to having to please only ourselves !
PS; We 've got along time to wait, they haven't even been to Uni. yet.

Disgracefully.

The same as now really, just with the added bonus of spending more time together.
Travelling, persuing hobbies and (hopefully) enjoying our grandchildren.

15 years and counting, although I would never put off something we wanted to do with the reasoning that we can do it when we retire.
MIL and FIL had lots of plans for their retirement, unfortunately MIL died of cancer age 57, 12 years ago and FIL has had to do things solo - for example they never got to visit her sister in Australia .

I want to live in a nice house (a big one, am fed up of small spaces) and travel a lot. And drink lots of wine

Neither of us wants to retire but we'd both like to go down to 3 days a week. I can see dh working on his music and I'd like to sew and knit and if we're lucky enough, be involved in grandparenting.

We'll get a campervan and bugger off on adventures.

I want us to travel and spend lazy days going out to lunch etc. Basically all the things we don't have the time and money for now.

Oh, yes, all the time.

Plan is: sell house the second dc leave home; buy tiny house in beautiful part of France, and spend dotage drnking wine, eating cheese and bread, holding hands as we gaze over the Med.

Sigh.. And we will also grow some veg, and have time to Read Books..all punctuated by visits to and from our happy grown up children and their gorgeous babies.

Travelling abroad and at home together.

Him out playing golf and me out shopping / coffee with friends.

Him finally doing his share of the cooking, cleaning, shopping, etc

I think we'll end up in living in Ireland, where DH will go back to his artistic roots and I will breed chickens and attempt to adopt an Irish accent

We've talked about this recently.

Dh is thinking of downsizing the house and giving any equity to the boys to get started with what ever they want to do.

I want to do long distance walks This is a dream PCT It takes months to do.

I have a seperate fund that I pay into monthly called my Himalayan fund but hopefuly that is a pre retirement dream DH is not included in that.

Well, when I bring it up he doesn't like to talk about it as he'd rather focus on being young than dreaming about being old and spending our days drinking beer, playsing sheshbesh and shouting at people (what I want to do).

I imagine we'll do lots of travelling, will live somewhere hot (though that's hopefully going to happen sooner, considering my pension calculator at work is kindly telling me "36 years until retirement) and that's about it.

I can't see dh ever retiring - he's self-employed and is always going to have a project on the go. Which will leave me time for a few of my own.

As I'm not planning on stopping being a SAHM, I'm not going to have anything to retire from. I shall be involved in a fair few community/church/school projects and I expect I'll just carry on till I drop.

It will be nice to go touristing about, but that can start as soon as the kids are ready (well, has already), no need to wait on that one. And again, nice to do stuff where it is just me and dh, but we do that now (in the occasional evening) and will be able to do more as the kids get older.

The only thing that really has to wait is the grandparent thing .

s.k.i.ing

(spending kids' inheritance)

I have an ambition to reitre rich and die penniless

Most slebs seem to breed horses when they make it big, and that is my dream...

Dh is not too keen on mucking out, so we will have to have staff. Dd is keen for us to breed dogs as well, so there will always be puppies to play with.

I was thinking maybe the middle of Wales? We do have Welsh blood so should not be too alien.

DH will cook lovely food and I will eat it and be the size of a house! If I don't run off with the milkman first that is . . . !

The main thing we talk about is not wanting to move house and have to join a completely new community when we retire, so this factors into current decisions about where to work and live i.e. we don't want to retire in London so should we move now?

I see us sailing, maybe a camper van, hill walking and mad shed projects (building more boats/models) and growing more food. Might run to a pig if the garden is big enough.

And cats. I want a lot of cats.

I'm thinking of a little cottage in the countryside with a lovely garden and great views.

Comfy sofas in front of full length windows where we can read, sip coffee and plan the next holiday!!