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In reply to the discussion: How much money would you need to never work again? [View all]Igel
(35,300 posts)14. Unanswerable.
Fine, give me $10 million. What do I do with it?
Possibly lose most of it in bad investments. But I'd have a nifty plucked-string instrument collection before that.
Many were retired and all they needed to never work again. In 1929. Or 2008. They changed their minds.
Then again, my SIL said that she resented being part-time at work, she really needed more. Then she went on disability and found she could get by on less.
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Well, exactly. People who die from 'not working' generally never lifted a finger at home
Nay
Aug 2013
#38
Well, when I was laid off in my late 50's, I was offered a few not great jobs by friends,
hollysmom
Aug 2013
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