u/Awayinthewilde

Good evening! I’m just popping in to do a quick update on my early retirement that I first posted about 100 days ago. Sorry it’s not in great order I’m just shooting from the hip.

I am mostly settled into a new home and new state, everything went better than expected with selling my previous home for over my asking price and expectations. The stock market was on a downward trend but the latest pump has really helped with any concerns. In addition, I haven’t had to do any withdraws other than $10,000 that I used for a new vehicle which wasn’t part of the plan but it became apparent with our hiking and camping goals that a pickup would just work so much better than my sports car. No regrets there, and minimal capital gain tax since it was over a year hold and I sold an underperforming asset.

I have been surprised by the lack of difference in my day to day life that retiring has made. I still get up with the sun, do all the same chores and such. The only difference is that I pace these things a little differently and I do slightly more chores in general. I tend to have almost everything taken care of before my girlfriend gets off work so we have all evening and weekends together which is a big benefit. Also, being home to take care of our large pet population situation is great haha.

One situation that really made me appreciate my retirement was when a friend from the service who called to talk to me about a divorce he is going through. I was able, in the middle of the day, sit down and give him my full attention and advice.

I have been able to get to the gym more regularly and now that it’s warming up plan on doing a lot of biking. I also get to the library some and have taken a class on fly fishing with more to come. I am also scheduled this summer to volunteer with a local organization that maintains public trails in the mountains here and am really looking forward to that. We’ve gone to some music shows and a theatrical event that we might not otherwise have had the energy to do and plan to do more of that.

One thing that slightly disappointed me was that not working didn’t seem to do much for my general anxiety. It allows me not to get into situational anxiety or performance anxiety situations but I think my rest induced anxiety is just here to stay. I am continuing some treatment for that so we will see how it goes. I have to laugh at the situation a bit, as not having anything to be anxious about is apparently giving me anxiety.

Anyways, feel free to ask any questions, 100 days flew by!