Curious - How Old Is Everybody?

[SloopJonB]

And by the time we get old all of our old friends and acquantainces are gone!! That was my Grandfathers observation before he passed in his mid 80's. He had experienced WWI in Europe where he was hospitalized for mustard gas, then sent home. It was a much different world when he passed in 1989. And a far different one now, 34 years later!!!

A few years before he died at 94 my dad said he had outlived everyone he ever knew. His childhood family, Mom, my sister, everyone he worked with, all his neighbours, all his friends, everybody.

I and my family were all that was left.

As to change, the only real problem I have with it is when things change for the worse - like putting bike lanes on the busiest streets instead of side streets..

Well, that and having to re-learn how to make a fucking phone call every few years.

 

[Go Left]

How old?

Sails by Watts, Line 7s, Transpac on a schooner, wire guys with dacron tails, Loran

 

[billy backstay]

A few years before he died at 94 my dad said he had outlived everyone he ever knew. His childhood family, Mom, my sister, everyone he worked with, all his neighbours, all his friends, everybody.

I and my family were all that was left.

As to change, the only real problem I have with it is when things change for the worse - like putting bike lanes on the busiest streets instead of side streets..

Well, that and having to re-learn how to make a fucking phone call every few years.

That's what your friends and neighbors teenager and tweens are for!!!

 

[billy backstay]

How old?

Sails by Watts, Line 7s, Transpac on a schooner, wire guys with dacron tails, Loran

If you're not referring to Loran A with lining up an electronic sine wave and interpolationg numbers onto a specialized Loran A chart, then I call bullshit!!

 

[Ed Lada]

66 and eyeing up a cessation of working every day for the boatyard. On paper we should only have to eat cat food on an occasional basis but time will tell.

You will probably be happier and cat food isn't so bad if only eaten infrequently. Just use it in Hamburger Helper. Don't ask me how I know that.

 

[P_Wop]

There's the old story about the bloke who tried to live on cat food sandwiches. He died in the end. Poison? No, he sat down in the middle of the road to lick his ass and was hit by a bus.

 

[Go Left]

If you're not referring to Loran A with lining up an electronic sine wave and interpolationg numbers onto a specialized Loran A chart, then I call bullshit!!

Started with Loran A with the oscilliscope on one boat and then with automatic TD #s (not displayed L/L) so you still needed the TD charts. Then C later on. Not a great electronics buff so don't really recall all the variations and evolution at all accurately.

I missed out on Decca, thankfully.

(I just dove into Wiki and learned that Loran C was only open to civilian use in 1974 and then phased out through the 80's. The whole story is pretty interesting. So is the story of the degraded civilian GPS signals.)

 

[P_Wop]

You had to watch out for those bloody base line extensions!

 

[130lights]

I think we do better in retirement financially than we thought. I know I am.

 

[Steam Flyer]

I think we do better in retirement financially than we thought. I know I am.

It varies highly. How about when a market crash cuts your income to half and your fund value by 1/3? Or when a hurricane destroys your house and almost everything you own, and insurance generously offers to pay 40% of what it will cost to rebuild?

We've had friend leave this middle-class retirement (mostly) community because they could no longer afford it, after both these events. Many of our friends now are working retail "joe" jobs because they need the money. We were pretty severely constrained but have come out of it OK.

 

[Go Left]

I think we do better in retirement financially than we thought. I know I am.

The formula is:
Nest Egg - (Housing + Medical) / 100-Current Age = Gotta Feel OK.

 

[SloopJonB]

I think we do better in retirement financially than we thought. I know I am.

Definitely - thanks to my wife's financial smarts we don't need to think about money. No problem helping the kids etc.

Not flying Lear jets or buying Royces but we can live the way we want without concerns about the state of the markets or the like.

 

[jerseyguy]

I think we do better in retirement financially than we thought. I know I am.

Our income in retirement is higher than it ever was during our work years but I’m not sure we’re doing better. We had sailboats, sports cars and paid for both of our sons college educations. Not now.

Neither my pension nor Social Security have kept up with inflation.

 

[Mrleft8]

I don't think I've responded here yet, so I'll just say, I'm doing pretty well for my age. I'm not losing my memory, or the ability to ummm.... That word thing..... That..... I can still drive. I can remember most of the things I went to the store to get. And I can remember the things I went to the store to get, mostly.

 

[chester]

How old?

Sails by Watts, Line 7s, Transpac on a schooner, wire guys with dacron tails, Loran

blah, blah, blah, how the fuck old are you?

 

[jerseyguy]

I don't think I've responded here yet, so I'll just say, I'm doing pretty well for my age. I'm not losing my memory, or the ability to ummm.... That word thing..... That..... I can still drive. I can remember most of the things I went to the store to get. And I can remember the things I went to the store to get, mostly.

Do you remember to go to the right store?

 

[P_Wop]

When you get cleaned out by A. a big divorce, B. the failure of your small tech company into which you'd sunk most of your remaining savings and C. an evil disease which came on before you qualified for Medical or Medicare, then things don't look so rosy. SSA doesn't cover much more than half of living now. Ugh. Well at least I won't see the year out, so there is that.

 

[NeedAClew]

I think I forgot to say. I am 72. I let my hair go feral but otherwise pretty much look like I did when covid started. Can't spend too much more time dodging covid though or I won't be able to do what I did at 69. (No, not THAT get your heads out of the gutter, lol.)

 

[Trovão]

58...

 

[Mrleft8]

Do you remember to go to the right store?

Of course I do.
I know this is the first time I've responded to this thread, so I'll just say, Don't think you know what I'm not thinking, because I haven't even got there yet, but when I do, I'll give you a piece of my mind, and you'll be sorry you ever.... Did I order pie for dessert....? If I did I hope it was apple. I like apple pie.