Dont want to go out

RosyCheeks you do as you wish.. if you enjoy being at home and being active there, why shouldn’t you. We are all different.

Just do as you please, after a lifetime of working for a living you deserve to do whatever you please. Not sure about housework every day though, you might grow out of it???

I feel a bit like you. I worked 44 years without a break in a high pressure environment, working long hours. Now I really enjoy pottering at home. I still get up reasonably early but instead of having to rush off to work, I luxuriate on the sofa with a coffee and watch the birds on the feeder.
I still enjoy a holiday but am generally happy at home and often find excuses not to go places. Enjoy your new lifestyle, you’ve earned it.

Sounds perfect to me. I have had a hard time adjusting to retirement it was a shock to my system but realise I deserve an easier life after working from 15 , bringing up a family, divorce etc etc. Enjoy

I'm glad for you Rosiecheeks.
You will change your habits when and if you want to.
You and your husband seem happy with the arrangement, so sit back and savour.

Its your life to do as you please so enjoy how you are living it and never feel guilty. Keep calm and potter

The joy of retirement is that you get to do different things to being at work. I worked for almost 50 years long shifts and planned everything on my days off and fitted housework in too. It was stressful and exhausting. Now I accept that however I fill my days its my choice. I have busy days, I have lazy days, I stay in, I go out. I have friends who really struggle with filling their time as though it must be filled and friends with no motivation at all. I class my self as somewhere in the middle. There is no right or wrong way. So no I don't think you are lazy at all. Don't feel guilty about your hubby working it seems its not an issue to him. Enjoy your days however you fill them.. x

I love being home. O.H. gets bored easily so we are always going here, there, and everywhere.
He is off to his daughter’s soon and I am looking forward to having my lovely home to myself.

Enjoy it OP.
“Yer a lang time deid.”

Davida1968

Nonogran, I'm just like you! I could potter for the Team GB Olympic Pottering squad....

Me too, in fact I have already won the gold medal for Pottering.?

Susie Dent tweeted a word that applies to me and that is spuddle. To appear to be busy but achieve absolutely nothing. Mind you, that applied to me when I was working as well but I’ve really perfected it since retiring. I hasten to add that I did work really hard when I was working and I did try but I always noticed that other people would achieve far more in less time.

Before COVID, I had an adult DC with learning disabilities to care for, and take to and from places, DH to visit almost daily in a nursing home and some school pick ups of DGC. I found it very stressful, so lockdown was a bit of a blessing. I love days when I don’t have to go anywhere. Now, I try to ensure that I don’t have too many places to be in one day. It doesn’t always work! The other day, I dropped AC off at placement, went straight to meet a friend, who had come fifty miles to the city, and wanted to meet for lunch. Had the hairdresser at 3.00, then pick up of AC, then home to prepare for the arrival of 2 DGS for a couple of nights while renovations going on at their home. Too much! One blessing is that the boys no longer need so much entertaining! We need time to ourselves to recharge the batteries. Rosy cheeks - enjoy!

No, Rosycheeks you are not being lazy - you are doing things that you enjoy doing at a pace that is right for you.
Not everyone wants to fill their retirement days racing here, there and everywhere, whereas others feel the need to and can't relax unless they are out "doing".
I enjoy going out, but equally, I love pottering at home. The hardest thing for me is doing absolutely nothing - I get a bit restless and feel as if I should be doing something, though I am getting better at putting that feeling of guilt away, but it does rear its ugly head occasionally. ?
No, you continue enjoying what you are doing and don't worry by overthinking "what I should be doing". ?

Me too, Coolgran65 !

Every one is different. I'm a bit of both. I like being at home pottering but if its too many days on the trott I don't like it. So I find things to do. Then again if I'm out too many days at once I want to stay home. ?

I too love pottering in the house and garden. I shop once a week and attend a social group but if someone else offered to shop i would grab it. I have lovely neighbours whom i see at least once a day for either a cuppa or just a chat over the fence. My dear sister visits every Saturday and other family pop in and out now and then. Friends keep in touch over facebook or via our mobiles. I have been out for a couple of meals and afternoon tea but i enjoy my home and just love having a whole day indoors. My sister says this is my 'halcyon days' and i should do as i please. So if your happy then i say continue.

There are no rules, I’ve been pottering about for years since I retired 6 years ago rosy cheeks, going out when want, staying at home when you want, I absolutely love being at home, I don’t know what the word bored means, No way on this earth are you being lazy, you sound as if you are happy, long may it continue and best wishes x

No you are not being lazy! Enjoy yourself.

Oh thanks everyone I will just keep on pottering then. I suppose I would go out if I had a dog but I have my cat but he takes hisself out. I must admit I do not miss work at all and would hate to wake up to find my retirement was just a dream.?
Thanks again everyone.

Enjoy it - good for you! If that is what you are happy doing, why force yourself to do something else? You may find after a time - months even - that you feel like venturing further, but there is no harm in enjoying your home and losing that clock watching ethic that we all have to employ when working.

One of the joys of retirement is that you have choice, and having worked for fifty years, enjoy it!

Relax and enjoy. Doesn't always come easy to someone who has worked long and as hard as you. I phased myself into retirement by signing up for voluntary work immediately but have now slid down the slippery slope into full time indolence and I absolutely love it. I actually dreaded retirement. Wonderfully wrong of me!

Just enjoy it! You will know if / when the time has come to go out more. Listen to your soul.....

Keep calm and potter..?

I always walk every day, pottering is all well and good but muscle wastage is a major issue as you age and leads to falls.Just keep moving is my motto!

Just enjoy! There are no "shoulds" any more.