Reply to: Life Expectancy

[expat]

Equity is just an expensive sounding weasel word for ‘imaginary money’ and it’s what’s got us all into this bleeding mess.

No need for it; a house is for living in, not for making money.

OK, sorry I was unclear. I mean that what I owe on the current house is almost as much as I bought it for; i.e. the house-buying has just started, rather than being done or almost done (as would be the case for the house I was buying before I got divorced).

[Churchill]

LOL! i was reading though all the posts hoping no-one had made a joke about that line

Queen: Hello, IT.....I have a new requirement.

Jen: we're a bit stretched til Q3 i'm afraid Ma'am.

Queen: don't make me get the gallows!

Jen: we can have it ready by Tuesday!

Mam as in spam, not Ma'am as in calm.

[Paddy]

Don’t burden yourself with worldly goods and lead a simple life. PM me and I will take them off your hands.

[jmo21]

Wow - The Queen has. I'd never realised she was this hands on. Gawd bless 'er

LOL! i was reading though all the posts hoping no-one had made a joke about that line

Queen: Hello, IT.....I have a new requirement.

Jen: we're a bit stretched til Q3 i'm afraid Ma'am.

Queen: don't make me get the gallows!

Jen: we can have it ready by Tuesday!

[Bagpuss]

Life expectancy rises as you get older. So, if you want to live long, get old.

As an aside, Egyptian Pharaohs only had a life expectancy in the mid 40s (and their plebs 10 years less than that). Doubt it was poor diet that killed them.

Rameses II died aged 96 and had over 100 children

[xoggoth]

Judging from my father and grandfather I only have three years left although I am hoping the 40+ a day fags had something to do with the first and the knife in the gut something to do with the second.

[rootsnall]

If I live aslong as my Grandad I'll make it to 2061. I think I'm happy about that

[BoredBloke]

Living into your 90's is becoming the norm. Average life expectancy is 80 so you might. Apparently the Queen has automated the telegram because of the explosion of centagenarians.

Wow - The Queen has. I'd never realised she was this hands on. Gawd bless 'er

[expat]

Don't spend beyond your means during your working life, dont have too many kids, 2 is enough to replace you and your partners DNA when you die!

In todays money, if I was mortgage free, I could easily live on a retired income of about £1000 a month between me and the mrs. A combined pension (be it an annuity, savings interest or whatever) of less than £12K a year is not that hard to amass imo. Hell even one good fully paid off investment property + basic state pension would hit that mark without much trouble.

No mortgage, no kids to support, just quietly enjoying life somewhere tranquil and idyllic. The Simple life.

Ha! Good luck to you, my mileage certainly varies.

I am not mortgage free, far less with also having a paid-off investment property.

I have not left my DNA anywhere, but am still involved in the raising of a young person, as I was with my wife's children: my partner's daughter is at Uni, and would get a grant (based on her mother's low income) were it not for my income coming into the household, so I do feel I have to replace that with a contribution from me. Yes I could tell her to eff off, or pretend to the govt that we are not living together. I don't like either of those.

So my outgoings can't be reduced that much, not yet anyway.

Edit: yes, that is what happens if you get divorced: your plans go back 20 years, but your body clock doesn't.

[ratewhore]

Most sensible post of the day IMO !!

Makes you sick doesn't it?

[Cyberman]

Don't spend beyond your means during your working life, dont have too many kids, 2 is enough to replace you and your partners DNA when you die!

In todays money, if I was mortgage free, I could easily live on a retired income of about £1000 a month between me and the mrs. A combined pension (be it an annuity, savings interest or whatever) of less than £12K a year is not that hard to amass imo. Hell even one good fully paid off investment property + basic state pension would hit that mark without much trouble.

No mortgage, no kids to support, just quietly enjoying life somewhere tranquil and idyllic. The Simple life.

Most sensible post of the day IMO !!

[chris79]

No I didn't mean that

I meant, sod the work, let me take to the hills/cycle to work/ see the world/etc before I die. Because I will, sooner than I probably think.

I think there is a term for this called 'midlife crisis'. It recently happened to both my parents... but yeah, nobody is getting younger and can you really go and do all the things you want to do after retirement (perhaps old age may stop you)?.. Living a happy life != money in my opinion.

[TimberWolf]

Syphilis?

Dunno.

Nice name for a baby though!

[Mich the Tester]

Life expectancy rises as you get older. So, if you want to live long, get old.

As an aside, Egyptian Pharaohs only had a life expectancy in the mid 40s (and their plebs 10 years less than that). Doubt it was poor diet that killed them.

Syphilis?

[TimberWolf]

Life expectancy rises as you get older. So, if you want to live long, get old.

As an aside, Egyptian Pharaohs only had a life expectancy in the mid 40s (and their plebs 10 years less than that). Doubt it was poor diet that killed them.