Retirees, what gets you out of bed in the morning?

Bill in Oregon · Post by **Bill in Oregon** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 4:48 pm

I usually wake up well before dawn and can't wait to get the coffee going, but the thing that gets me up faster than any is a calf cramp!

BrianSH · Post by **BrianSH** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 5:30 pm

The Maggie cat wants breakfast.

jnyork · Post by **jnyork** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 5:58 pm

Bladder is right on time every morning.

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 6:00 pm

Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Mon Dec 24, 2018 4:48 pm I usually wake up well before dawn and can't wait to get the coffee going, but the thing that gets me up faster than any is a calf cramp!

500-1,000 mg of Magnesium with dinner usually prevents those ("check with your personal physician before taking any supplement{/i]"). Or the same effect can be had if you soak in epsom salts but it requires enough time for your skin to become permeable/absorbent, so a 40 minute soak, but it can really help.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 6:20 pm

Sexual activity gets my heart started in the morning.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 6:21 pm

Usually, 8 hours and I'm ready to take a leak....

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 6:22 pm

Pitchy wrote: ↑Mon Dec 24, 2018 6:20 pm Sexual activity gets my heart started in the morning.

Too much information Pitchy.....

jnyork · Post by **jnyork** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 6:31 pm

Pitchy wrote: ↑Mon Dec 24, 2018 6:20 pm Sexual activity gets my heart started in the morning.

So, you only wake up every month and a half?

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 6:37 pm

jnyork wrote: ↑Mon Dec 24, 2018 6:31 pm
Pitchy wrote: ↑Mon Dec 24, 2018 6:20 pm Sexual activity gets my heart started in the morning.

So, you only wake up every month and a half?

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 6:41 pm

Nothing gets me up.....I go to bed and get up when I damm well feel like it. After living 62 years by other people demands I decided that when I retire nobody is gonna tell me how to live. In the last year I missed half the matches at the gunclub because I just did not want to get up at 6.

In the last two years since retirement, I restructured my life to be compatible with my varying sleep habits with no thought as to other people's needs...except my wife

....but like me she too likes my sleep habits as she is well accustomed to doing what she does when she feels like it.

Bill, when I was drinking lots of beer, my calfs would make me up every night around 3 or 4. Quit drinking...no cramps.

Dinner at 6???? pelosi....I eat when I'm hungry...sometimes 6,,,sometimes 11....

Got up today at 12:45...got to bed somewhere around 2 or 3....don't remember and don't care.

People who know me will tell you it's near impossible to get ahold of me by phone.....

Don't believe that BS about "having purpose"....my purpose is to make sure my immediate family and furry friends are warm, live well and with a belly full of food. and.....they will get those things.....when I decide to get up.

Count Sixula

M. M. Wright · Post by **M. M. Wright** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 8:26 pm

jnyork wrote: ↑Mon Dec 24, 2018 5:58 pm Bladder is right on time every morning.

Me too!

marlinman93 · Post by **marlinman93** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 8:33 pm

M. M. Wright wrote: ↑Mon Dec 24, 2018 8:26 pm
jnyork wrote: ↑Mon Dec 24, 2018 5:58 pm Bladder is right on time every morning.
Me too!

Me three!
I retired over 8 years ago, and I still can't sleep in. But once I'm up for the morning toilet break, I can't go back to sleep. Hot coffee calling, and since it's just my wife and I the quiet in the first couple hours is relaxing time of day. Always had to rush out when I was still working.

crs · Post by **crs** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 10:15 pm

Habit of waking up at 6AM.

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 10:39 pm

Me four. I’m even retired yet and every morning at three I wake to answer the call.

vancelw · Post by **vancelw** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 10:51 pm

My job

I retired. Didn't work for about a year. Got caught up on my reading and did lots of hunting and traveling, but then remembered just how much I liked money. Ugh.
My "retirement" job has been keeping me pretty busy.
So far about 20% has gone to my 401k, and what doesn't go to taxes has been spend on guns and toys (tractors

)
Now I just need time off to play with them.

Oh, and my bladder gets me up several times a night. My rotating shift keeps my clock so screwed up there is no telling when I'm gonna wake up. Sometimes 3am

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 11:16 pm

Work. I retired nearly 30 years ago... couldn't afford to, couldn't afford not to. Sometime in the not too distant future I'm going to quit working... darn investments gotta go down the drain so I don't roll 'em over again!

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 11:54 pm

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Nothing gets me out of bed in the morning - early morning, that is.

My Green-eyed Monster & I started sleeping in when we retired 14 years ago, arising about 10AM (+/-).

Which is especially attractive on those cold/rainy/snowy Winter mornings...…….

It was pretty easy to break the habit of getting up early for work - in fact, it was a no-brainer.

I will only hunt in the afternoons during Fall, when it's usually much more comfortable.

.

Booger Bill · Post by **Booger Bill** » Tue Dec 25, 2018 12:59 am

Wetting the bed.

Rexster · Post by **Rexster** » Tue Dec 25, 2018 2:13 am

A nearly-five-month-old, red-colored Rat Terrier keeps me from sleeping-in. Best alarm clock, at least until she gets a bit older, and may want to sleep-in, too. She came from a farm in Brazoria County; my goal being an alert traveling companion.

Nath · Post by **Nath** » Tue Dec 25, 2018 3:01 am

Pitchy wrote: ↑Mon Dec 24, 2018 6:20 pm Sexual activity gets my heart started in the morning.

That is another image I have to cope with I would rather not

N

Nath · Post by **Nath** » Tue Dec 25, 2018 3:08 am

5:45am every morning, I beat the alarm clock. (Wiered I know).
Work or a walk with a gun.
The dog.
Or if nothing better to do, give the Mrs a cuddle! Whether she needs it or not!!

N

EdinCT · Post by **EdinCT** » Tue Dec 25, 2018 6:45 am

I slept in until 5 am this morning which is about 45 min behind most days. The 60 year old bladder is a treacherous thing. But I still hear my Grandfather yelling up the stairs to all of his grand children to get up, the suns almost up and you will miss the best part of the day! I do believe he was right!

piller · Post by **piller** » Tue Dec 25, 2018 8:52 am

Not retired, but a chihuahua and a black & white Rat Terrier get me up. Alarm clocks are too easy to hit the snooze button. The dogs know how to get you up with lots of enthusiasm on their part.

fordwannabe · Post by **fordwannabe** » Tue Dec 25, 2018 10:29 am

Yeah not retired until 2025(but it’s getting closer every day) but what gets me up? Winchester, Marlin, and Ruger! Winchester is a nearly 6 year old chocolate lab, Marlin is a year and a half mobile alarm system that looks suspiciously like a 115 pound Doberman, and Ruger is a 17 week old yellow lab that has stolen my heart and several layers of skin with puppy claws and a desire to be in bed with us.

66GTO · Post by **66GTO** » Tue Dec 25, 2018 2:25 pm

My bladder, the cat, or the sun. Not necessarily in that order.

rossim92 · Post by **rossim92** » Tue Dec 25, 2018 4:13 pm

I take a leak at 3am . a dump at 4 am, then I wake up at 5 am!

Post by **Chuck 100 yd** » Tue Dec 25, 2018 4:29 pm

Two little dogs rule our house and wake up time. As soon as they get feed and peed they want to go back too bed.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Tue Dec 25, 2018 4:36 pm

rossim92 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 25, 2018 4:13 pm I take a leak at 3am . a dump at 4 am, then I wake up at 5 am!

Oh man! I like a guy with a sense of humor! Good----6. (The Count)

JerryB · Post by **JerryB** » Tue Dec 25, 2018 7:25 pm

I retired in 2001 after the last 24 years of rotating shift work. I like to get up and put the coffee on early and do some bible reading.

Nazgul · Post by **Nazgul** » Tue Dec 25, 2018 7:44 pm

Retired 3 years ago. Did what I wanted and bought a motorcycle. Started substitute teaching and found I liked it, wife is a High School teacher. Offered me a full time job running their in school suspension class for students who get in trouble.

Rules are easy, NO PHONES, stay awake, sit at a desk and work. I am having fun. The students know my wife and I well from after school activities.

Go to the gym and beat my fat old body very other day.

Get up early because I don't want to waste time.

Don

wecsoger · Post by **wecsoger** » Tue Dec 25, 2018 8:15 pm

Thanks for all the replies, folks, serious and otherwise.

I'm looking at closing that door behind me next one to three years, depending on couple things.

Right now I could probably walk and not suffer too much financially, but while I dislike my job, I enjoy the work - that's what's keeping me around.

And I have to keep mindful if I stay at home and be underfoot, my wife may just shoot me. (grin)

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Tue Dec 25, 2018 9:31 pm

wecsoger wrote: ↑Tue Dec 25, 2018 8:15 pm
And I have to keep mindful if I stay at home and be underfoot, my wife may just shoot me. (grin)

Don't grin - IME, your relationship with your significant other WILL change after retirement, when you'll be with each other 24/7 (opposite of when one or both of you had to go to work)

HOW it will change is up to the both parties (IOW, YMMV)

.

Catshooter · Post by **Catshooter** » Wed Dec 26, 2018 7:45 pm

Whatever you do, once you retire, don't re-arrange the kitchen for your wife or it may be the undertaker getting you out of bed the next morning!

Cat

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Thu Dec 27, 2018 9:26 am

Catshooter wrote: ↑Wed Dec 26, 2018 7:45 pm Whatever you do, once you retire, don't re-arrange the kitchen for your wife or it may be the undertaker getting you out of bed the next morning!

Cat

I won't ask how you come by this valuable information. ….

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Thu Dec 27, 2018 9:30 am

Hatchet Man wrote: ↑Tue Dec 25, 2018 4:36 pm
rossim92 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 25, 2018 4:13 pm I take a leak at 3am . a dump at 4 am, then I wake up at 5 am!
Oh man! I like a guy with a sense of humor! Good----6. (The Count)

What makes you think rossim92 is joking.....

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Thu Dec 27, 2018 1:25 pm

gamekeeper wrote: ↑Thu Dec 27, 2018 9:30 am
Hatchet Man wrote: ↑Tue Dec 25, 2018 4:36 pm
rossim92 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 25, 2018 4:13 pm I take a leak at 3am . a dump at 4 am, then I wake up at 5 am!
Oh man! I like a guy with a sense of humor! Good----6. (The Count)
What makes you think rossim92 is joking.....

Hi Gamekeeper! That's good......Oh man...I sure hope he is!......LET ME TELL TOU A STORY...........

The old man and his wife went to the doctor for an appointment for the old man...... the wife waited for 3 hours while the old man was being attended to.............when the old man and the doctor came out she wanted to know what took them so long.............the doctor explained that "Well, my staff needed to take a urine sample, a stool sample, and a semem sample" and the woman shouted back, "why didn't you tell me, I could have just brought you his underwear."-------6

COSteve · Post by **COSteve** » Thu Dec 27, 2018 4:32 pm

Larkbill · Post by **Larkbill** » Thu Dec 27, 2018 5:39 pm

I'm right at a month in and I can already see the wisdom of your routine.

I made the mistake of thinking I needed to "help" her with the grocery shopping. Not good.

Luckily reading is a large part of both of our lives and syncronized reading is pretty low impact. Already she doesn't say a word if I spend the morning reloading or the afternoon at the range so that's good. Plus I have several retired friends to play with.

We're going to try a month in FL in a one bedroom condo. That may be the real test.

Grizz · Post by **Grizz** » Fri Dec 28, 2018 12:29 pm

11 year old springer spaniel.

His bladder gets me up every morning!

Paladin · Post by **Paladin** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 2:21 am

A 120-pound Rhodesian Ridgeback who wants out.

model55 · Post by **model55** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 1:06 am

Arthritis,bladder or pets!

FWiedner · Post by **FWiedner** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 1:45 am

Usually it's a dog that needs to pee.

Nazgul · Post by **Nazgul** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 12:36 pm

Wife said I had to find something to do outside the house after 6 months. Said all I wanted to do when she got home was talk....been alone too much I guess.

So, I went to work at the school where she teaches, now I am with her 24/7.

We get along and it is nice to spent time with her.

Don

DPris · Post by **DPris** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 5:14 pm

The toilet.
Denis

otteray · Post by **otteray** » Mon Dec 31, 2018 1:12 am

As others have stated their case, my dog and cat get me up, too..
The cat, well before the crack of dawn, just to be obnoxious, I guess. Nothing like a big ol' furry tail in your face, to ruin a good dream.
Then, that wakes the dog up, who jumps up on the bed to sniff my face, and then flops down to sleep some more..