That just means more house to keep clean. I need that money to travel, and have fun…I may drop dead tomorrow. Since the children and grands just visit – air beds are great.
The only thing that stays constant is the need for good friends. They are as precious as your health.
Our sense of humour keeps us young.
A few good quality items are already on the hangers….No more shopping sprees lets go to lunch!
TV is a constant companion that and the telephone is a must. .
But the more simple my life now the better.
No car, no insurance no gas….everyone else seems to have one!
Have your wants and needs changed as a senior ?
Yes. Here are some necessities:
a home, land-line phone. I can’t be out of touch.
no stairs
downsizing and not accumulating stuff
simplifying
simpler ways of cooking and doing the work
money to travel and do fun things
contact with friends and relatives
some creative and fun activities
I’m sure I’ll find more as time goes on.
I still need 3 bedrooms, one for an office and one in case someday my grandsons are allowed to visit me, I have painted the spare room a subtle greyish not too dark green – my older grandsons favourite colour – so far it has only the bed and an old fashioned trunk that could pass as a pirates chest – its a work in progress, no real rush at the moment
Time for the sporty two door car to go, its painful to get in and out of it, a little SUV would be more suitable, not one you have to climb into tho.
Like you I buy a few articles of good fashionable clothing while overseas, very cheap – no more buying just because -
Your needs are different from mine, but my needs have changed too. When I was young I was healthy, married and economically comfortable. Now I am 51, single and disabled. I have a small apartment by myself, a car to get me to work, and no budget for clothes or eating out. I haven’t turned on my TV in over a year, and I have Internet at work but not at home.
What spare money I do have, I spend on food and necessities for my daughter, and she helps me with car expenses and utility bills. She owns a house nearby and is expecting her first child in January, so I help her as best I can. I wish I could do more for her.
We live in a huge barn of a house. I don’t hate it, but we just do not need it!
I would love to just have one huge room, with the kitchen in one corner, divided by a fireplace, with a big bed, TV, computer desk of course, with an out-of-site-bathroom with washer/dryer and closets, etc. and all on one floor!
No. Absolutely not. I will never agree to that.
I am living in imposed forced poverty and have lived that way in shades of poverty from direr to barely above poverty for the past 25 years. No. I still am human.
I am being murdered by psychpaths after money, trying to say I am schizophrenic, because I would not let a doctor, who reminded me of my brother do a physical exm of me. Therefore, no other doctor will examine me. I would let, or had to let, one who looked like my sis do a pap smear, who did not know what the heck she was doing. I cannot get a doctor to do a physical.
Will not touch me. I could work when I came here to meet my needs. Now I am very very sick. Who is crazy? My body is not cold.. The vultures are circling closer and closer. I do not have a schizophrenic or scizoid bone in my entire body.
Good quality items? If I have two radios, both costing about twenty dollars they tear up one.
‘they broke half my "TV. I am living in psychoc\
city. I worked my butt off trying to have somethings to keep from losing my mind, to have something to do to relieve stress, and they relieved me from all of it, but the most basic things and they are ripping them off and tearing them up. I gues sthat is why they let me get it. they watched me work myhindend off accumulating the things evryone wants so they could get it. Mad because it was not enough.
thieves and liars one and all.
I need more money. Yes. I need more money.
A house would be great, not necessarily three bedrooms. One which did not reek with urine,
like my apartment, and is not inundated with allergens, cottonwood, and where I can pass gas….oh excuse me, burp, without being heard would be nice. One where I could write, possbily do something like that and make a little money, practice piano making mistakes ….as anyone does when learning, and do the necessary repetitions, without being ridiculed. One where I am not an hour from my only kin here. Only one I know and am close to. I don’t want to pop in on her all the time, i respect her privacy, their privacy.
I am alone and this place is really hardnosed, hard hearted, sodomitish, stingy and it is rather frightening. I have two relatives I associate with, my daughter and her family, my son and his family. I sometimes talk to the others but I would not want to live near them .
so far, I have had the rights of an animal, slightly more.
Sure have! Over the years of raising my children we always lived in a 3 BR 2BA+ home with yard.
Four years ago when I moved into my current place I was excited about being back in Virginia [having lived in the city - DC] – two huge condo with 2 BR, 2BA, din rm, breakfast room and sunroom was wonderful. The first two years I had out of town guests regularly.
Now two years hence, I am tired. Housework is too much for space I now rarely use and I find I tend to ‘park’ in one area of the condo.
Looking to move this summer to a 1 BR, maybe even a spacious studio with 1 BA and a small kitchen and no carpet.
I still work FT and will for some time so I have to have my car.
Also am on the 3rd floor of a garden type building and the steps are killng me! lol So want a ground level unit.
Yep I still dream of little cottage somewhere, but someone would have to do the yard work and general housework!
Everything has gotten smaller. My space, from house to apartment, my wallet, etc. The only thing that has grown is my waistline.
Yes my needs have changed and are still in transition. I went from a 3 bedroom house to a 2 bedroom condo. Now I have a 4 bedroom house twice as big as when I started. As I need assistance in my daily living, I moved my son and his 6 kids in with me. I am well taken care of and have my full time to enjoy life as it should be. I have two cars and a driver, and it is a toss up as to which has more gas.
I totally agree, especially about the need for good friends.
they are very precious….
I find I surely don’t need but one bedroom but I would like rooms to carry out my interests in.
I find I bought that place and just need to move at some time.
It’s not a big city ,2,500 but is within 13 miles of a big city so I will still need my small car I bought last year.
I have a storage room that will be turned into a studio and the extra bedroom will be my everything room, computer/guest and the yard will be a ‘no care’ yard for both units, It’s a duplex. I will give me a bit more income too and I think I’ll be fine.
I don’t really want things so much as interests and friends and relatives and in the new place I will have all near by.
We have lived in our same home for near 40 yrs and I have no desire to move or relocate. We have 3 bedrooms also. One is an office/guest room and the third one is the grandson’s room. We have had a child living with us for the better part of 40 yrs—our own, foster, and a grandson along the way.
I couldn’t do without a car. I’m not interested in buying new clothes or traveling very far. We do still take a summer vacation or several day trips but I prefer my own bed at night.
Taking care of a home and yard and working part time seem to fill out the day pretty well. We enjoy our car trips, attending church, and eating out once a week. My husband and I still have several brothers and sisters living in the area and we enjoy talking and visiting with them.
I’m still accumulating "stuff" as I enjoy my toy collection. We both enjoy working and playing on our commuters. We both enjoy tv —watching the news, Judge Judy, and the Hallmark channel are favorites.
Some things have changed and the way we do things but I guess some change is to be expected.
Maybe I just haven’t hit that threshold where you determine that you don’t need much of what you once needed to provide you with the lifestyle of your choosing. Perhaps I have always needed the intangible properties of the good life and sorta placed in second place those tangible items that only placed me in a certain tier of our society. Have I always mislead myself and made myself believe this is true ? I have spent a significant amount of time alone out in the middle of my South Pasture leaning against that old Mesquite tree while I searched my soul for answers. I have arrived at some explanations and developed some understandings that I am comfortable with. Are they mostly lies that I tell myself ? Maybe so. However I will continue to value my principles and my pride, my friends and those I love. I will continue to live by my convictions and conduct myself using the standards that I have adopted long ago. They may fall short of those adopted by others. That I accept. The tangible items, the big car and the big house, the fine clothes and all the trimmings that I guess were of importance to me as a young buck now are not that important. Beautiful mornings and majestic sunsets continue to impress me. I am happy to settle with that.