FloridaRougaroux

Assuming the stock market is still down or flat over the next year, hopefully your father's CDs will come due and he can live on that. Otherwise, he may have to work another year.

Once the stock market is back up, he needs to redistribute to a much lower risk portfolio - preferably a lot of fixed or guaranteed income. Most funds have "generic" investment options depending on how far away retirement is.

I do miss RS too. Hated it those last few years where it was just a cell phone store. Luckily I live near Orlando and they have an amazing place called Skycraft which is an electronics hobby parts and surplus store. I go in to buy a small motor or something, and come out with 20 different items and 3 new projects in mind. Lots of stuff you never knew you needed.
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Your wife said I was super fast

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Ummm - that's actually NOT considered a good thing.

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It's supposed to be simple, so let's keep it that way,

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I hear ya, but also, while you have a big pot of seasoned water boiling, what's the harm?

I've always done potatoes (small ones), onions, garlic, frozen corn on the cob, and halved lemons. But recently had a request for mushrooms, halved oranges instead of lemons (I'm in Florida citrus country), and even green beans to satisfy some that want more veggies. I was thinking at least fresh corn on the cob. ??

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I do some consulting on the side. Pretty easy phone calls that usually last one hour, up to two hours. I get $500/hour or another company pays me $1,500/quarter. It's good 1099 work.

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Tell me more. I work 10 hrs a week from home and am looking for something additional to do for maybe 5 to 10 more hours a week.

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High school/college or retired?

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Semi-retired, working from home aprox 10 hrs a week.

I've been watching the Arkansas - Clemson games (or highlights as available) at least a couple a day. If I can get the National Championship game, I'm going to plan a watch party with the 3 or 4 LSU friends I have here in town sometime in a month or two.

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this is a real issue. what did you have outside of 401ks when you retired.

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$250,000 in savings and CDs. We need to draw about $50k a year from that including big time upcoming expenses like a new car, new roof, resurface pool, etc. But we don't want to bring it to zero - would rather keep $100k in cash always. And if one or both of us lose our part time jobs, then we will need to draw more, or cut expenses.

We both had really good jobs that matched our 401K contributions with no limit - mine at 10.5% and my wife's at 15%, so we always put the max amount in. Plus IRAs, etc.

Yep, same here. The 2011 season was so great until the end. We were beating teams by large margins, excepting Bama, but we still beat them. Then the SEC championship game was amazing. I was on top of the world and thought that was the greatest team ever - then 21-0 happened and I have never fully recovered until now. I think memories of that 2011 season kept me much more cautious and pessimistic this year. I was just waiting for Joe to have a bad day (they all do eventually, don't they?) and for everything to crumble. But it did not, and I'm still not sure when it is going to hit me that this was the best of the 40 seasons of LSU football I've ever seen.

When we lost to Bama in 2011, I thought it might be our cat. So I had it put to sleep last week and it worked.

Seriously, I know better than to think anything I do has an effect, but when my mom asks me to wear the LSU shirt she bought me 20 years ago for luck, I listen.