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Selected life timeline 2016—2019

The bucket list did not run itself. Neither did the friendships.

MrFireStation’s first year exposed a gap between imagined hobbies and activities he actually wanted to do. By year three, the strongest routine was social: reaching out, making plans and keeping separate morning interests before shared evenings. A good retirement needed initiative as well as time.

Finances
Net worth at retirement2017-03-06 · Personal
Not established

A comparable starting net worth was not established in these sources.

Source
Posts2
2017
Post 01

Some imagined hobbies stay on the list

“Winter would be the best time, but I’m too busy right now.”

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Life at the time

  • Compared the retirement activities he had imagined with those he actually pursued.
  • Traveled and enjoyed entertainment while leaving some proposed hobbies untouched.

How it felt

  • Found the calendar full without completing every original idea. “I’m too busy right now.”
  • Discovered that boating involved more effort than the couple wanted. “more work than we wanted”
CuriosityChange
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Notes

Publication date at available precision. Retirement milestones follow the author’s own count; a missing milestone is not inferred.

Life-wheel review of activities and unfinished plans.

Editorial summaries with short, attributed quotations. The original contains the full story.

2019Year 3
Post 02

Someone has to make the plans

“many of our friends are still quite busy with their own jobs (and kids) and are not as free as we are to make plans.”

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Life at the time

  • Regularly initiated invitations and renewed friendships from earlier stages of life.
  • Kept separate morning activities and shared dates, volunteering and later plans.

How it felt

  • Recognized that a social life needed someone to make arrangements. “designated planners”
  • Made reaching out to other people an almost daily habit. “I try to reach out to someone almost every day”
FriendsPartners
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Notes

Publication date at available precision. Retirement milestones follow the author’s own count; a missing milestone is not inferred.

Designated planners and separate morning schedules.

Editorial summaries with short, attributed quotations. The original contains the full story.

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Research

Last checked Sep 2026. The accounts are self-reported. This timeline follows selected accounts, including recollections where labeled; it is not a complete archive.

  • Two selected milestones; intervening and later articles may add context.

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