Retirement

[PuddingandPie1]

Is there a section of the site that deals with retirement? We are all going to face it at some point and it is a major rite of passage but yet it doesn't get much of a mention that I can find.

Any chance of setting it up?

[GarlicJuneBlooms]

Go and post in my first ever FIRST THREAD on a new board!!!

[Elliptic5]

Definitely would welcome this topic, DH is retiring from main job and setting up as a part time consultant, he is of pension age and needs to take state pension to tide him over, I am younger and my retirement age is 10 years away. Have already come across loads of things I would welcome input on.

[ZeroSomeGameThingy]

Brilliant idea. It had never occurred to me that there was no retirement topic. Thanks MNHQ

I've just been over to the new thread but it's untouched so far and I'm too shy (and woefully ill prepared) to start it off. But I'm sure it will soon be buzzing.

[RebeccaMumsnet]

Hi all,

This has been done for you now.

Feel free to run around in the lovely empty topic and create some conversations. If there are any active conversations that you would like us to move over there, then please do report them and we will.

[JustineMumsnet]

No problem, we'll get one set up soonest. Thanks for the suggestion and input all.

[NoEgowoman]

Yes please. Need to start planning.

[Fideliney]

And we could have another joined up thread with gransnet like the menopause one.

[Bowlersarm]

Yes please mnhq.

Not quite 50 yet, but time goes by so fast......!

It's important to plan, especially financially, and would be great to have a dedicated topic to post in/read/gather info and ideas from.

[Fideliney]

Great idea. Needs to be planned for as well as dealt with when you arrive there

[caramelwaffle]

An excellent idea.

[NetworkGuy]

s /say i was /say it was/

No sniggering at the back, about my typo!

[NetworkGuy]

Crumbs, did you expect anyone to say i was a daft idea?

It'll be on the horizon for you, too, and nearly everyone (excepting that lovely lady still working in a pub who had her 100th birthday around Easter)...

OK, far distant horizon for all you MNHQ staff who are still just 21 :)

[DawnMumsnet]

Thanks for all your posts so far.

It seems as though you're all in favour of a dedicated Retirement topic.

Please do keep your thoughts coming - we're looking in and taking notes.

[lovestea]

Personally, am really quite nervous about it. I have worked for 40 years now, and although I do have a lot of interests:- local affairs, politics, cooking, gardening, an allotment, cycling, music, the arts, current affairs plus two grown up sons and a husband, I am totally at sea with what giving up work will really mean other than not having to set the alarm clock, and not actually having that work responsibility any more. I love my job, but I am done.
I have done some planning, but, but, as GarlicJuneBlooms says it is literally a massive life event, and one we will all face. The more help and support the better!
What say other people? Plus, thank you Puddingand Pie1 for raising this.

[FranksBobot]

Fab idea. I'm no where near retirement age but friends of mine are already planning ahead (pensions savings investment for the future etc) yet I just don't have a clue!!

[Shakey1500]

Great idea

[Poofus]

Good idea.

[lovestea]

Another one here voting for a retirement thread. Not old enough or quite in the mindset to join Gransnet (plus am not a Gran) but facing retirement in a couple of years and would like to share stuff. Pensions. Managing on less money. What we do with our time. The next phase of our lives. Thank you.

[KneesoftheBee]

I would welcome it. I am 52 but would like to look at the options of flexible retirement.

[MaryBennett]

Sorry Finola . X post

[MaryBennett]

Please yes. Could have loads of discussion re minefield of women's pensions ....

[Finola1step]

Sounds like a v good idea. Retirement for me is a long way off but is something I'm paying close attention to. When I left university, I was told I could retire at 60 with state as well as employment pension. That has now increased to 67 for state pension.

Pensions are a minefield and there will be lots of mumsnetters who have very real concerns over their financial independence and stability in the future.

[GarlicJuneBlooms]

Yes. It's a massive life event, but one which is all confusing & shrouded in mystery. Sharing would be great, for the retired & retiring and also for the never-gonna-happen-to-me brigade.

It will also give me a platform to moan about media portrayals of over-55s

[Dressingdown1]

Yes! Great idea.

[OldTimer1955]

I would like a section. I am retiring to get married (it is a long story but true)!