Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Serious question for the 60 yrs and older crowd.

Going on 68 and married 44 yrs.

Have a good woman, one that is not wasteful and takes pleasure in saving money.

Live within your means. Have fun but don't be wasteful. Save for your future.

Have a plan for your future. Pay off your house buy a certain age is one possibility. My house was paid for at age 50. HAVE NO CREDIT CARD DEBT... Strive to be debt free.

If you can do this you'll be far ahead of the game.

Don't live beyond your means under any circumstances. But concentrate on using your means to LIVE. Do that trip, buy (for cash) that toy you want, trip, do things while you still can.
Buddy of mine did that. Fiscally rational, worked hard, had a great wife and family, could have had his own outdoor adventure show kind of life, right? He was killed this last winter sledding in the mountains. But his life was pretty darn full, he jammed a lot into his 59 years.

Two ears and one mouth! That should tell you a lot!!

Eat, Drink, and don't Marry!

A young bull and an old bull are standing on a hill looking at a herd of cows. The young bull says "hey, lets run down there and screw one of those cows!"

The old bull looks at him for a minute and says "why don't we just walk down there and screw all of them..."

A major part of your life will be spent working, prepare yourself to work a job you love.

Strong people are generally most useful, never quit learning and improving yourself. If you think you are good enough you are wrong.

Experiences are more valuable than stuff. Get out and challenge yourself and see the world.

Never, ever give up.



mike r

Good One! I have been married for 49 years and have never tried that one.

A well developed sense of gratitude is a major key to happiness.

Been married 51 years. Best advice is to marry a good supportive woman who is understanding, likes to laugh, and isn’t full of herself. I was in a high divorce rate career and without my wonderful life I probably would have been a three time loser.

Don't marry a motormouth.

When I was 42 I was able to do whatever I wanted to as far as outdoor things. I always worked 8 hrs a day and several hours gunsmithing a day during the week, and the rest of the year I did whatever I had time for ----things like backpacking, cross country skiing, hunting, fishing, and trapping, playing on a softball team and still was able to work around home doing usual married man and father to three children stuff.
Somewhere along the line as you get older there will be some of those things you quit doing each year as time goes by.
I am not saying you can't do those things because of your age physically, but responsibility wise you drop one thing and pick up another .
I am 75 now, and I still plan on doing neat stuff, but find that I pick what I like the best and do first. I still hunt deer, elk, and antelope (maybe), and fish some, but some things can even trump hunting and fishing, like grandkids and family things. Photography has always been interesting to me and more my speed.
The main thing besides your personal things like a job, saving a little money, your religion, your health etc. is treat your friends like you want to be treated.
Now I should tell all of this to my two boys and daughter who are 39-- 45years old. !!!

I’ll throw my 0.02 in

Only date trashy women

Deteriorata

You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here.

Go placidly amid the noise and waste,
And remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
Avoid quiet and passive persons, unless you are in need of sleep.
Rotate your tires.
Speak glowingly of those greater than yourself,
And heed well their advice, even though they be turkeys.

Know what to kiss, and when.
Consider that two wrongs never make a right, but that three do.
Wherever possible, put people on hold.
Be comforted that in the face of all aridity and disillusionment,
And despite the changing fortunes of time,
There is always a big future in computer maintenance.

Remember The Pueblo.
Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate.
Know yourself.
If you need help, call the FBI.
Exercise caution in your daily affairs,
Especially with those persons closest to you -
That lemon on your left, for instance.
Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls
Would scarcely get your feet wet.
Fall not in love therefore. It will stick to your face.

Gracefully surrender the things of youth: birds, clean air, tuna, Taiwan.
And let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Hire people with hooks.
For a good time, call 606-4311. Ask for Ken.
Take heart in the bedeepening gloom
That your dog is finally getting enough cheese.
And reflect that whatever fortune may be your lot,
It could only be worse in Milwaukee.

You are a fluke of the universe.
You have no right to be here.
And whether you can hear it or not,
The universe is laughing behind your back.

Therefore, make peace with your god,
Whatever you perceive him to be - hairy thunderer, or cosmic muffin.
With all its hopes, dreams, promises, and urban renewal,
The world continues to deteriorate.
Give up!

ATM is an interesting handle choice.

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That was good.

I feel exceptionally lucky to have made it to the ripe old age of 62.

I'll leave you with an old saying,"Youth is wasted on the young".

Get it while you can.

Still hoping the OP is out hunting caribou or moose in AK and reads this when he gets back.

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For real

Doxycycline might be needed