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fjimp wrote:Great plan. I also invested heavily in my hobby over the last five years leading up to retirement. Now that retirement is about happen my spending has come to a halt. But now I hopefully get to enjoy the fruits of my spree. Jim

I "spree'd" all over myself over the last 5 or 6 years on a number of "retirement" hobbies... To the tune of something around $20,000 to $25,000. Much of that came from sales of no longer needed farm equipment and some other un-needed "stuff".
Now I just wish I could find more of that "free time" that is supposed to come with retirement.
All of this has not followed the pattern of rather extreme frugality that was the way we lived for much of our lives. We put a lot of time and hard work into building for the future but guess what... The future is here now for us and it is time to enjoy the fruits of past labor and doing without things.
Actually on most things we are still pretty frugal (except eating out and even then we avoid higher priced places) and we still have other income that is a fair bit more than our combined SS and more starting this fall.
I also hope to make some pocket change with my little sawmill as well as gaining a lot of wood inventory both for the horse boarding and the woodshop. Since we heat with a wood furnace the slab-wood will make our cheap heat basically free.
Will I buy or upgrade to a PowerPro? Hmmmmm... Probably not but still a possibility. I think that we will spend about that amount on a little traveling this summer. I'm not really too hot on it these days but my wife wants to. In the 50 years we have been together (married 49) she has asked for very very little so when she does ask I try to do... Again, it is just time to do it. We are both currently in pretty good shape for old folks but may not be if we put it off too long.
I recently made the decision to push my western boot rebuilding shop to a back burner until this fall. I am still putting it together slowly but I threw away the calender with any deadlines on it... Too much else going on.
I too have sort of put the brakes on hobby spending now but I have almost everything I wanted.
Funny, I always thought that I would spend much of my retirement fishing and for years I accumulated fishing stuff. I guess I will save that for when I get old. I no longer hunt but I do still enjoy shooting. Horse hugging has kind of taken over as my favorite hobby.


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paulmcohen wrote:I have the same sticker but mine is completely blank in the important part.
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It looks to me like you have a "place for the sticker" but no sticker.

So not just me that is using imminent retirement as an excuse to keep buying tools? lol

jm51 wrote:So not just me that is using imminent retirement as an excuse to keep buying tools? lol

Hey, anything that works.

Note that I have already retired 4 times.


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[quote="robinson46176"]Hey, anything that works. ]
It takes more than just the opportunity, farmer. One needs to be smart enough to take advantage of the opportunity. I have retired basically three times but I did not use those opportunities to this advantage. There are still many items that I regret not having purchased while I had good, regular income. I have been relegated to buying one small piece at a time off ebay and building what I want.

dusty wrote:It takes more than just the opportunity, farmer. One needs to be smart enough to take advantage of the opportunity. I have retired basically three times but I did not use those opportunities to this advantage. There are still many items that I regret not having purchased while I had good, regular income. I have been relegated to buying one small piece at a time off ebay and building what I want.

I won't start listing off regrets... I don't think the forum software could handle that kind of volume.
Still it has been a mostly good run.


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dusty wrote:It looks to me like you have a "place for the sticker" but no sticker.

Customer service (via email) said you don't get a serial number unless you buy a headstock. DIY upgrades are blank.

paulmcohen wrote:Customer service (via email) said you don't get a serial number unless you buy a headstock. DIY upgrades are blank.

Hmmm, curious distinction. Do you get a warranty with a DIY?

That's odd, I swear there was a serial number or a date tag at the bottom of the huge decal on my DIY upgrade which was applied to the left side of the headstock. There is a warranty for the DIY upgrade kits.

charlese wrote:O.K. Paul - I remembered!:) The serial No. decal was attached to the larger decal, so I didn't try to separate them - If I could have.

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Charlese, did you not do a DIY upgrade.