No Money Talk

Even though I say it isn’t everything, it seems every conversation involving retirement comes around to money. Anyway, let’s see how far I get today.

Like I said before, we needed to do some soul searching before we go much further and I’m glad to report that we (Harley and I) seem to have come to some kind of agreement as to how we want to spend our retirement years. Hallelujah! This is HUGE! I was getting very worried that we both had very different ideas of how we spend our golden years. Potentially, that could have been a very serious problem. Suppose Harley was adamant about selling everything and taking off on a sailboat with no plans of returning “home” and I wanted to buy a cabin in the woods, plant some roots, and live off the land. With that scenario it wouldn’t matter what type of financial plan we had. Simply put, it would have been a disaster.

Our plan, (a very loose term at this stage of the game) is to keep the house, sail for six months of the year, and summer here in Ontario. If Harley wants to do some more serious sailing he can sign up to crew in the “Caribbean 1500” or something like that….and…. I will be happy because I will still have my roots. We’ll likely leave the boat down south in the summer, and we may not be sailing in the boat we have now, but those details will fill in as the date gets closer. For now I am just thrilled that we agree on a plan.

And look at that….no money talk. I’d better sign off because I feel it coming on.