Two years into retirement, what do we do with our days? The paid travel writing I do to one side, here is a selection of things we get up to. There isn’t anything on the list that will blow your socks of, this is stuff that everyone does. The difference is that working people have to fit these activities into evenings and weekends. We enjoy having a lot more time!
What do retired people do all day? The list:
Daily or more than weekly
- Blog writing
- Listening to the radio or music
- Reading novels [so much writing meant that last year I only read 47 books compared to 69 in 2017]
- Keeping up-to-date with current affairs
- Watching TV programmes and films
- Learning languages
- Getting out for a walk either locally or further afield – I am aiming to walk 2,019 kms in 2019!
- Puzzles and quizzes
- Completing surveys for small financial remuneration [with You Gov, Research Opinions and others]
- Practising tai chi [we attend a weekly class when we are at home]
- Going to our on-site gym
- Social media
- Cooking [and eating]
- Talking to each other about our plans and ideas or politics and the news
- Cleaning and laundry
- Supermarket shopping – we tend to do this on foot or bicycles and shop at least a couple of times a week
- Managing our finances
More than once a month
- Researching and planning trips in our campervan
- Supporting a local charity as a volunteer
- Supporting the company that manages our flats as volunteers
- Going camping
- Cleaning, fixing or making things in our campervan
Monthly or occasionally
- Meeting up with friends
- Helping friends and neighbours
- Attending our book group
- Litter picking [although I’ve not done this as much as I hoped]
- Going to music gigs, the cinema or theatre or football matches
- Visiting local museums and galleries
- Jigsaws
- DIY in the flat
Back on the road again 
I feel quite exhausted just reading through that list! 😋
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😊 I probably forgot to say that we don’t do them all on one day!
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