# My move to the retirement facility (If joining the thread late, at least skim the first few posts) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 16, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-move-to-the-retirement-facility-if-joining-the-thread-late-at-least-skim-the-first-few-posts/988672 "2023-08-16T19:04:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 32
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-move-to-the-retirement-facility-if-joining-the-thread-late-at-least-skim-the-first-few-posts/988672/621 "2024-02-02T03:40:47Z")
Thanks for the lovely pictures! They do indeed look settled in. And I see the cardboard boxes are being thoroughly sat in. – is Tikva on some sort of heating mat in that last picture? if not, maybe she would like one? Though I suppose you might have to get two! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-move-to-the-retirement-facility-if-joining-the-thread-late-at-least-skim-the-first-few-posts/988672/622 "2024-02-02T04:17:23Z")
That is a little fake-lambswool pad that I use in the carrier when I take them to the vet. I have it on a box in front of the window so she can comfortably lounge there. It took her forever to even try it out. 🙄 I do keep a heating pad on the sofa, but for me, not them. Now that I only have a shower and no tub, the heading pad gives me something warm against my back when I’m feeling achy, chilled or tired. Okay, the cats use it, too… > [@InternetLegend](#): > > And it makes me wistful, remembering some friends I had in my teens. I’ve been thinking about this post. It’s true that as busy working adults, we don’t seem to have time or bandwidth for those intense, sweet friendships. Now that we’re on our own and retired, that gift is available again. It’s still sweet. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-move-to-the-retirement-facility-if-joining-the-thread-late-at-least-skim-the-first-few-posts/988672/623 "2024-02-02T14:52:17Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I’ve been thinking about this post. It’s true that as busy working adults, we don’t seem to have time or bandwidth for those intense, sweet friendships. The gift of childhood again. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-move-to-the-retirement-facility-if-joining-the-thread-late-at-least-skim-the-first-few-posts/988672/624 "2024-02-02T15:22:04Z")
In a way, it is, kind of. Mary Lou and I have decided that life here is a cross between a cruise ship and a sorority house. (Not that I have experience of either except from movies and hearsay.) We acknowledge constantly how fortunate, blessed, lucky (choose one or all) we are to be able to take it easy at this point in our lives. I’m aware of this and grateful practically every minute of every day. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-move-to-the-retirement-facility-if-joining-the-thread-late-at-least-skim-the-first-few-posts/988672/625 "2024-02-02T15:37:09Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Okay, the cats use it, too… In my experience, the ratio would be about 3:1 and you have to chase a cat off the majority of the time before you use it. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-move-to-the-retirement-facility-if-joining-the-thread-late-at-least-skim-the-first-few-posts/988672/626 "2024-02-02T16:11:25Z")
Hehe. 😼 ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-move-to-the-retirement-facility-if-joining-the-thread-late-at-least-skim-the-first-few-posts/988672/627 "2024-02-02T16:16:36Z")
I just think it’s very thoughtful of the kittehs to let you use their magically warm bed from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-move-to-the-retirement-facility-if-joining-the-thread-late-at-least-skim-the-first-few-posts/988672/628 "2024-02-02T17:39:30Z")
They live to serve me. 🙂 Oh wait! I got that exactly backwards. ---
**Author:** ![Eric1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@Eric1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eric1)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-move-to-the-retirement-facility-if-joining-the-thread-late-at-least-skim-the-first-few-posts/988672/629 "2024-08-22T22:18:58Z")
Thelma Lou I appreciate this thread as I’ve always planned to retire myself in 2050. I’ll probably share a camper shell with a boxfan keeping me cool. Yet I’ve always known the importance of saving even just $20/wk for retirement. It has compounded wonderfully since 1990. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-move-to-the-retirement-facility-if-joining-the-thread-late-at-least-skim-the-first-few-posts/988672/630 "2024-08-22T22:26:14Z")
For sure, having a cushion of funds in your retirement is just as important as having a comfy bed and enough to eat. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-move-to-the-retirement-facility-if-joining-the-thread-late-at-least-skim-the-first-few-posts/988672/631 "2024-08-22T22:44:45Z")
How are things at the facility? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-move-to-the-retirement-facility-if-joining-the-thread-late-at-least-skim-the-first-few-posts/988672/632 "2024-08-22T22:47:58Z")
@ThelmaLou covers an update in a more recent thread: > [@My first year at The Home with a question about living in community](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-year-at-the-home-with-a-question-about-living-in-community/1006010): > > Continuing the discussion from [Retirement communities - would be interested in any stories or opinions on this subject](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retirement-communities-would-be-interested-in-any-stories-or-opinions-on-this-subject/1005929/27): Hi @Bullitt wave:t4 How ya doin’? Seen any good eclipses lately? sunglasses We are now coming up on a year since I moved to what I affectionately refer to as The Home (with a nod to Johnny Carson). [I have a long thread on that from a year ago](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-move-to-the-retirement-facility-if-joining-the-thread-late-at-least-skim-the-first-few-posts/988672) starting with August 4, 2023, when my landlord basically kicked me out of my beautiful house where I had lived for 11 years, beca… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-move-to-the-retirement-facility-if-joining-the-thread-late-at-least-skim-the-first-few-posts/988672.md?page=31)