Retirement Discoveries

                I knew I would like retirement because I had the luxury of time to think about it before I actually retired.  I discovered some nice things about retirement that I hadn’t anticipated and I had a lot of fun listing them in a series of retirement “tips”:

RETIREMENT TIPS

By John M. Skogstoe

1-To avoid 5 o’clock shadow, don’t shave until noon.

2-Save laundry.  T-shirt and comfy pants – all day, every day.

3-Have at least 4 video or computer games available so you don’t have to play one for more than two hours.

4-Record your favorite morning news show so you don’t have to get up at 7 to watch it.

5-Coffee with retired guys is like CNN, Fox and MSNBC – when you run out of stories, just make stuff up.

6-Don’t be caught without a home base – get your recliner overhauled BEFORE you retire.

7-Keep your snacks and candy far away from your recliner and only take one on each trip.

8-Don’t worry about exercise – you’ll get plenty looking for lost articles and making back and forth trips between rooms trying to remember what you wanted to do.

9-Practice saying “no”.

10-Keep your eyes open for things you couldn’t do before like “Minnesota Day” on the Big Ten Network.

11-"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."   ~George Bernard Shaw 

12 - Play video games!  http://mashable.com/2013/09/04/video-games-older-brains/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link

13-"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."   ~Marthe Troly-Curtin