Reply #13: I'm collecting SS retirement and still working.

[Webster Green]

I've downsized my housing and drastically cut my expenses. I buy clothes mostly from thrift stores. I grow veggies, and other desirable crops. I get by OK, and have enough to buy a few semi-expensive goodies that I really want, such as cutting-edge computers, and really good leather boots.

In this economy, providing an essential service is a good occupation to have. I'm a chimney sweep. I do pretty good in the winter, even in CA. It gets slow in the summer, but there always seems to be just enough work to get through.

I must add that it's getting harder all the time, due to the ever shrinking economy and my reeling in the years. I'm 64, and the work keeps me fit, but it's more difficult every year to fool my body into thinking it's still 25. :smoke: