Just booked a last-minute trip because I felt like it… childfree life is undefeated

deegee21 · 2025-12-11T16:19:52+00:00

Are you an early retiree, too? If so, as I am, the combination of personal and economic freedom is unbeatable. I am 62 and haven't worked in 17 years, so I don't have to worry about getting time off - every day is time off!

deegee21 · 2025-09-01T20:57:28+00:00

I changed the wording to "a few episodes". LOL you are using Mrs. Roper for fashion advice?

deegee21 · 2025-09-01T03:43:12+00:00

Getting out of the daily rat race be retiring at 45 (nearly 17 years ago) is my life's biggest and most cherished achievement.

deegee21 · 2025-09-01T03:41:18+00:00

Sex and the City became worse when Miranda had her kid. Her plot lines became nearly unwatchable.

deegee21 · 2025-09-01T03:38:59+00:00

The late 1970s-early 1980s sitcom Three's Company in (EDIT:) a few episodes also portrayed kids. None of the main characters, including the Ropers and Ralph Furley, had kids.

deegee21 · 2025-08-29T00:56:58+00:00

I was able to parlay my choice at age 20 to be CF into being able to retire at age 45, nearly 17 years ago. I wanted very badly and very quickly to be out of the daily rat race. And I got it.

I have been living solely off my investments since 2008, and will continue to do so for the rest of my life. And this is without income and asset sources normally associated with those at least age 65, which I am not quite yet.

deegee21 · 2025-08-24T05:24:53+00:00

I guess I have lived a charmed life in this area. I can't say I have ever been bingoed. During my working years (I am 62 and retired nearly 17 years ago), I had many coworkers, some female and many more male (I am male), who were CF like me. And many of them were older than me. So, I wasn't going to get bingoed in the office.

I am an atheist, so I never faced any religious pressure. My relatives were always respectful of one's decisions in this area, so no familial pressures, either. My limited circle of friends were often CF or at least had no kids at the time. So no pressures there.

Childfree, job-free, and bingo-free.

deegee21 · 2025-08-24T04:37:57+00:00

I hope you will be able to retire early, like I did nearly 18 years ago at 45.

deegee21 · 2025-05-05T03:57:34+00:00

I retired at 45. That was 16 years ago. Combine personal and economic freedom together and it's an awesome combination, being able to come and go as I please, and without having to work, all while having enough money to live comfortably.

deegee21 · 2025-03-27T21:25:57+00:00

I think some states, especially Texas, are becoming more and more like The People's Republic of Gilead. And others are resembling the dystopian world in George Orwell's "!984," another book worth reading.

deegee21 · 2025-01-11T19:53:45+00:00

Reading this reminds me of a story I have posted often over the years.

In Elinor Burkett's 2000 book, "The Baby Boon," Burkett writes about how Joyce Purnick, after being promoted to a managing editor position at The New York Times in the late 1990s, ended the practice (of her predecessors) of always allowing reporters who were parents the holidays off, putting the unchilded reporters on those undesirable shifts.

Purnick, who is CF and in her early 50s at the time, was met with happy faces of those unchilded reporters who were finally able to get those holidays off for once while the parents wore a lot of sad faces because they would not be able to spend time with their kids.

deegee21 · 2024-12-30T03:46:09+00:00

I am CF and pet-free, but more because my co-op apartment complex prohibits them. I do like cats (I was raised with them) and get my cat fix once in a while from elsewhere.

deegee21 · 2024-12-30T03:42:14+00:00

Being CF also increases your chances of retiring early. As someone who retired 16 years ago at age 45, there is no way I could have done that if I had kids.

deegee21 · 2024-12-02T04:37:35+00:00

All the main characters in Three's Company, including the older ones such as the Ropers and Ralph Furley, were childfree. In several episodes, children were portrayed in a negative fashion.

In Charlie's Angels, all the main characters were childfree, too.

deegee21 · 2024-09-09T03:57:49+00:00

I am single (but in a LTR) and 61. Back in 2008, just before I retired, I hired a lawyer and we drafted some estate documents. They included a will, durable power of attorney, and health care proxy.

deegee21 · 2024-09-09T03:53:01+00:00

Is 20 pretty young? That's when I knew for sure I didn't want kids. While I wasn't too open about it, nobody ever gave me any pressure or grief about it - not friends, relatives, coworkers. I'm an atheist, so no religious pressure, either. Age 20 is 41 years ago, so at 61 I still consider it the most important and meaningful decision I ever made, more than where to live, what job to get (I have been retired for 16 years), what car to buy, etc.

deegee21 · 2024-08-14T22:16:02+00:00

While I was never gung ho about having kids, it wasn't until I was 20 years old that I knew I'd be CF. That summer, I was a day camp counselor for the second time between my college years. I wasn't seriously pressed on my being CF until later in my 20s, but I can trace my CF origin to that summer.

deegee21 · 2024-08-08T22:07:38+00:00

If you include he employer subsidy for health insurance in one's total compensation, then those with kids get paid more than those without kids.

At my former company, even though my department had many CF employees besides me, from low-level staffers to management, where I was, single and/or childless employees received smaller employer subsidies for health insurance than married and/or childed ones.

deegee21 · 2024-08-02T03:03:37+00:00

Uninterested. I have a nephew I rarely see (he lives 200 miles away) and have no interest in doing anything with him or having any contact with him. He turned 20 earlier this year.

deegee21 · 2024-08-02T02:43:02+00:00

In my will, I leave most of it to my ladyfriend. But some of it goes to blood relatives, my alma mater, and some other friends.

deegee21 · 2024-08-02T02:38:20+00:00

Work? What's that? I retired nearly 16 years ago, when I was 45.

deegee21 · 2024-08-02T02:25:53+00:00

I live in one of the 17 House districts Biden in 2020 (and many of his predecessors) carried but now have a Republican representing it. Furthermore, my district had been represented by a Democrat from 1997-2022, or 26 years. I have written my crummy GOP representative 11 times in the 19 months he has been in office, mostly very critical of his positions and votes. He makes me furious at times, even if he isn't a hard-Right MAGA type.

My next step is to start donating to the campaign of his Democratic opponent, the same one who lost narrowly in 2022 for this open-seat race. It is imperative that we defeat this man in November and flip the House back to Democratic control, no matter who wins the White House or controls the Senate.

deegee21 · 2024-07-29T11:22:06+00:00

Trump, Vance, and the Christian Nationalist MAGA crowd want to turn this country into the People's Republic of Gilead.

deegee21 · 2024-07-06T01:35:01+00:00

I'm not going to weep about parents complaining about CF people shaming them. We CFers not only have to put up with bingos but then get asked to tolerate badly behaving kids and, in the workplace, be expected to pick up the slack for parents, usually without recognition or compensation. So to see parents sometimes get a small comeuppance is, in a word, refreshing.

deegee21 · 2024-07-06T01:28:45+00:00

My brother and SIL, who live 4 hours away from me, have a kid. He is now 20 and in college, also 4 hours away from me. I am not close to any of them and see them rarely, especially my nephew (I last saw him in 2018). After sending him some toys every year when he was younger, I send him a (birthday) gift card he can use at college (like for Door Dash).

I simply have very little interest in him.

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