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In reply to the discussion: I retired a little over two years ago and I can honestly tell you this. [View all]BumRushDaShow
(132,154 posts)which was after they took Pres. Obama's portrait off the walls in my building's lobby (and did the same in any agencies in the building that had them up), but BEFORE they had 45's photo portrait ready to hang.
I already had a pile of hobbies before that and being retired meant that I would now be consumed by them (plus add on DU).
I have had to make sure to set aside a block of time to do some "chore" (wash clothes, vacuum, run errands, clean bathrooms, water plants, etc) each day. I watched my mother (a stay-at-home one) do that - she would try to get her "chores" done "before noon" and then she would do her leisure reading or watch a CSPAN panel or some movie on TCM or would turn on "Microwave" (that is what she mis-called MSNBC ) in the afternoons and evenings.