<p>Train trips, particularly Canada
Take up sailing again for short trips to Catalina Island
Scuba diving
house/exchange and live somewhere for a month</p>
<p>GAAAAAHHHH!!!</p>
<p>So jealous of everyone who just wrote the last tuition check!</p>
<p>Two in college now, with a third who won’t even start college until 2015, so I have a few years to think about all of this. ;)</p>
<p>We try to travel and spend money on vacations now, because who knows what the future will bring, and we usually include at least one kid on our trips. This was a conscious decision we made years ago when we made a choice NOT to take over a vacation home my parents owned. </p>
<p>Congratulations to all of you bucket listers!</p>
<p>I believe that tuition is the best way to spend money. I know I am minority as even my H. does not share this belief. But even with that, I do not believe in paying for UG. Others might find this OK, though.</p>
<p>Do you mean undergrad? If so, I don’t get that. We paid for S1 to attend an excellent school for undergrad; he took that education and turned it into an NSF fellowship that pays for his grad school. Would he have been able to do that coming from a lesser school? Perhaps, but the research opportunities, teaching, mentoring and connections would have been very hard to match.</p>
<p>Right after tuition stopped, I helped with grad school, not with tuition but with travel expenses and then I paid for half a wedding. Now that my family is out earning their own money and making their way through life I can proudly retire from my current position and travel home. I have some plans and I am itching to get started; but a few more months to go and major packing.</p>
<p>1moremom,
then you share my belief and spread it wider to include UG. I am glad to hear that as it may appear from this thread, that we hate to spend money on kid’s education. I am partially with you, I hate to spend on UG though, we did not pay for ours, various employers did and D. was on full tuition Merit in UG, but we paid for our S’s, it was cheap, but he was able to get in to his first choice program and this was very important.</p>
<p>What a fun concept… </p>
<p>We will have a FY and Soph in college next year… so it’s still very dark and scary for us. Our younger two are in sixth grade now, will likely attend private HS (unless we move) from 2015 through 2018…so we won’t be done paying for undergrad studies until at least 2022… </p>
<p>Hubby and I will be 61 and 59, respectively…give me strength!</p>
<p>^C’mon, you make me a dino, as I am much older than that already and still have 3 more years to pay! But I am very happy that we do, that means that D. is where she wanted to be, not everybody is so lucky.</p>
<p>Shameless reboot, but I really am curious about what things you would like to do. And I’m not just talking about taking a trip.</p>
<p>I’m especially interested in folks like^^47 and 48 above. You (and I) are not spring chickens when the tuition payments stop. What do you want to do before retirement while still earning a decent income?</p>
<p>I still have a few things to do on the house. But really, the house is so 10 years ago. Who cares? The kids are grown and activity at our house is much less. That’s not my priority. Experiences are so much more important.</p>
<p>Hubby will turn 60 in September when DS starts his freshman year. He is ready to retire before tuition is finished. </p>
<p>I would like to take advantage of some of the military space available travel and see where it takes us. I have always thought that it would be fun to just get on the first available plane and go where it is going.</p>
<p>^^.That is what I would like to see. Go at the spur of the moment.</p>
<p>mirrismm,
“I’m especially interested in folks like^^47 and 48 above. You (and I) are not spring chickens when the tuition payments stop. What do you want to do before retirement while still earning a decent income?”</p>
<p>-As I have mentioned, there is no plans to change anything as well as no plans to retire on my own either, aside from the fact that I will be kicked out at some point of time, which is understood and will be no pshych drama. Then the plan is to go to the box and under the ground as I have no idea how to fill 8 hrs to keep myslef entertained. All of these I have described in previous post, just repeated it here since you asked.</p>
<p>We would like to move back to ME … where my beloved can spend his days riding on a vintage tractor …become a gentleman farmer. I want to be closer to the ocean, again… and to be able to travel, without putting anyone else’s needs ahead of my own. I hope we can find the perfect place for this retirement home… and are blessed with continued good health.</p>
<p>I’d like to go on a safari</p>
<p>Plunk myself down in a villa in Umbria for two weeks, followed by another two weeks on the coast in Croatia.</p>
<p>^Our 2 weeks in Cozumel are wonderful every single year…no plans to change that.</p>
<p>H will start having mandatory minimum distributions this year from his IRA, so he’s not a spring chicken. We really haven’t figured out what we WANT to or WILL do moving forward. Expect we may travel a bit more, since D will live in LA & for now, S in VA. We would like to spend more time in national parks and perhaps Europe.</p>
<p>I do wish for improved health, but how to get that is anyone’s guess. They can’t figure out why I’m not in better health & I’ve seen and spoken with many of the best lung docs in the world!</p>
<p>We don’t expect to have much difference in net income after H retires because we won’t have to pay tuitions out of it and hopefully will also be done with the mortgage & get a pension with COLA and medical insurance. We will just have a lot more time to plan and figure out what we want and when we want to do it.</p>
<p>^It is funny, because I just deffered one of my minimum distributions today until much later age!! It is great that I could do that. I believe that others are all start at this later age. It was very hard to dig info., the guy kept me on hold on a phone forever while reading specifics, at least there was no fees, I am thankful for that. I can still withdraw whenever I wish so.</p>
<p>^^ We were just talking about visting Tibet last night… But for one family among our friends, their tuition had just started, a 6 year dental school(with specialization) total $500K, ouch…</p>
<p>^I know, paying for Med. School, at least UG was free (thank you, D.), so not $500, more like $200k at one of the most expansive private Med. Schools (if counts only tuition though, there are many other expenses, rent, food, books, trips, car…)</p>