5 reasons I was able to retire at 58
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- čas přidán 30. 05. 2024
- Today marks the beginning of my retirement journey, and I’m going to share the five reasons that enabled me to retire at the age of 58.
Over the past 42 years, I’ve worked in both the UK and the USA, making a mix of wise and not-so-wise financial decisions. In this vlog, I’ll delve into the five essential strategies that paved the way for our early retirement in Orlando, Florida.” 🌴🌟
#themeparkbazza #orlando #retirement #retirementplanning #retirementstrategy
Congrats on finishing Barry, you’re quite right in what you say. My plan was 58 but cancer came and got me at 50 so my world changed overnight. Plan for tomorrow but live it as soon as you can, you don’t know what’s round the corner.
Exactly, you never know what tomorrow will bring !
My thoughts go out to you and your family. I hope that you return to good health soon.
Congrats! I also just retired a few days ago at 58. Starting to de-clutter and purge all of the junk I don’t need anymore from my life. It’s an amazing feeling!
That is awesome! It is a good feeling
Me in 16 days.
Happy retirement both of you enjoy and make the most of it. I retired at 55 and am now 83 and it was the best thing i ever did. And still enjoying my Florida holidays.
That is awesome!
Found your video at 26 and I am saving a good amount to retirement so I can retire early like yourself. It's nice to hear advice from people who have lived life and gone through the emotions of retirement. Wishing you both all the best!
Starting early puts you in a great position
Many congratulations on your retirement bet Max is happy to have you home full time! Look forward to watching your retirement adventures for many years. Thank you also for being so transparent thats why I love your vlogs, so open and honest xx
Thanks so much!
Ahh good for you Bazza ! Lots of time now to enjoy your beautiful house and pool as well as unlimited theme park visits ❤️ xx
Thanks so much 😊
Fair play to you Bazza & for being so transparent about your lifestyle going forward. Quite refreshing when so many other vloggers hide behind smoke & mirrors or use deflection to avoid uncomfortable questions about their day to day lives. Enjoy your retirement, you’ve earned it 🥂
Thanks so much 😊
Congratulations 🥂. May you have a very long and very happy retirement. Enjoy every moment. I look forward to seeing lots of fun vlogs ❤
Thank you so much!
Enjoy your retirement. We retired around 57 the best decision we ever made.You made a lot of a very good points,it’s takes years of planning to retire.So enjoy it ,you deserve it🎉🎉
Right on!
Yayyy 🎉🎊 Many Congratulations Barry on your well deserved retirement , enjoy it.
Wishing you both health and happiness.
Thank you
Congratulations and enjoy every moment!! ☀️
We will!
Great listen! Congrats on your journey and success in meeting your goals. I’m 58 as well, 4 weeks from full retirement (following my wife who pulled the plug with her defined benefit pension in hand 6 months ago). We did many similar things in the last 3-5 years including selling our home, building a new smaller one with little maintenance for the next few years, and getting all financial affairs in good order. We could not agree with you folks more 👍. When we built the house we planned for it to be as operationally inexpensive to run as possible so we could enjoy our $ doing what we want to instead of paying big bills to keep it going. We installed a full solar array to drop our total annual heat/ac/light cost to less than $500/yr….and other things like that such as high efficiency water heater, high quality windows and insulation, etc. With all that in place, we are excited to both be in retirement in 4 weeks. No looking back now!
Sounds smart, that's why we did the same:-)
Congratulations Barry and Max. We are so happy for you both.
Thank you both xx
Congradulations Barry on your retirement. You truly deserve it, embrace this time with Maxine xx
Thank you, I will
Well done with the planning Barry wishing you and Maxine many happy and healthy years ahead.
Thank you so much !
A great honest and open vlog with some valuable advice. Enjoy your time together x
Thank you! Will do!
Congratulations on your retirement Barry, enjoy making lots more memories with Maxine along the way. Looking forward to following along with you both on your next vlogs 🎉🍾🥂
Thanks 👍
Congratulations on your retirement, and I wish you both many happy, healthy years of fun x
Cheers
Congratulations 🎉 Absolutely love your videos, I love seeing what you and Mrs Bazza get up to.
Thanks so much
Happy retirement Bazza, I hope you both enjoy it. Keep the vlogs coming.
Thank you! Will do!
So glad you did the proper intro after the very formal one 😂😂. Happy Retirement, you and Maxine have earned it 🎉🎉
Yay! Thank you!
Brilliant. Thanks for sharing. Happy retirement to you both
Thanks so much!
Enjoy your retirement Maxine and Barry you have worked hard and now time to reap the rewards especially as you are still young and have your health. I have just taken the same leap of faith at 57 due to my husband's illness and time I needed to take and spend with him. You are spot on we can always go back to work and get some more money if needed. However one thing that money cannot buy us is time with our loved ones.. both of us really enjoy your vlogs and look forward to watching your new adventures together. Enjoy xx
Thank you xxx
Many congratulations, Barry - absolutely the right thing to do! Nobody knows what's around the corner so go out and enjoy life while you still can. Hope you both enjoy a long and happy retirement 🍻
Thanks so much!
Thanks so much!
Happy retirement 🎉, thankyou for sharing your wisdom around retirement planning, me and hubby are a little way off both at 40 ish and appreciate hearing your journey and tips
Never to early to start planning
congratulations on retirement barry, you’re both living the dream out there in the states! all the best going forward, and don’t stop riding those coasters!
We definitely will be riding more coasters
Thank you for the channel, and you're help and guidance enabled me to have a great Florida return with my daughters in May. Good luck with the retirement, and try not to get under Maxine's feet! Between you and The Lodge Guys you make my week
Aww, thank you. I've never heard of those other guys, but I am sure they are nice :-)
Congratulations on your retirement 🎉. Enjoy every minute. Great vlog 👌
Thank you! Will do!
Welcome to retirement! I retired about 2 years ago and was living in Lakeland Florida. My husband and I moved to East Tennessee near Gatlinburg after 42 years in the Sunshine State. That was always our dream at retirement, and we, like you, had to plan. I'm glad we did.
We don't miss the Florida heat!!!!
Enjoy the fruits of working hard and saving for this time in your lives. Say hello to Mickey for me....
We will do !
Good for you both! You can enjoy relaxing and having fun now!😊 Be happy.
Yes! Thank you!
Congratulations, may it be a long and happy retirement, you both deserve it.
Thank you so much!
Congratulations to you both 🥳. Hope you enjoy a long and fulfilling retirement 😊
Thank you so much!
Enjoy it mate, so, can we expect more frequent vlogs?
I must say I agree completely with the plan, we sold our stupidly expensive house in Surrey to move to the countryside, my wife quit work at 40 and I keep things ticking over till I retire in a couple of years. Planning and preparation is key.
Well done Bazza!!
Just one a week, I am retired 😊
Thanks for doing this video, really interesting! You have made me realise that we don’t have a plan! I’m 50, my husband has already retired from the police but is currently working full time in a new role. Our children are only just starting to become more independent, so it has only been the past year where we have started to think what we would like to do, where we want to live. It’s funny we were literally saying yesterday how this next stage of life has taken us by surprise. Thank goodness we do have good pensions plans, a home that’s paid for and no debt; we just haven’t figured out yet when we’d like to retire, what we’d like to do and whether we can fund the gap until other pensions kick in. It definitely involves theme parks, travel and camper vans! Enjoy the next stage of life, excited to follow your journey! 😊
A good financial planner can help you craft a plan
Happy retirement sir and thanks for sharing - Kevin & Cyndy UK
Thank you kindly
Love this….may you both have the life you’ve dreamed of x
Thank you x
Congratulations on your retirement Barry! Enjoy! 🎉🇬🇧
Thanks so much!
HI from England. I really appreciate the honesty and openness's. Enjoy the retirement, you deserve it.
Hi Dave from England :-) , thank you !
Happy retirement guys you have showed that with careful planning the dream can happen x
And some luck !
Congratulations on your retirement. Great vlog. Everything you said makes so much sense. We both had Lucas pensions at 16, like you seemed pointless, but now in our early 60s, we have continued with pensions all through. I retired at 60. Loving it. I will make sure I watch the ads and not skip lol.
That is awesome!
Congratulations on your retirement. I can definitely recommend it. Enjoy! 🥂
Thanks so much! 😊
Congratulations on your retirement. With sound planning and advice you guys have a wonderful home and a wonderful country to spend it in. All the best
Thank you so much!
‘It’s a marathon, not a sprint’. 👌 Exactly this, and kudos to you for playing the long game. Super happy for you - but gutted you got shonky financial advice. Glad it got resolved but how frustrating and draining. Some great advice in here - thanks for sharing. X
And now I can eat at 4 pm for my senior specials at a diner x
@@ThemeParkBazza 😂
Congratulations on your retirement Barry - now time to enjoy your time with your lovely wife in your home which is looking amazing after the renovations 🎉
Aww thank you xx
Great vlog, I'll let the adverts run now! Happy retirement guys 🎉😊
Thank you
Very good sound advice. Thank you for sharing your personal journey. Now enjoy!!
Thank you! Will do!
Happy retirement Barry.
Our northern background has paid off.
We're not at the same stage in life yet but can relate to everything you're doing.
Cheers
Congratulations and well done. Enjoying retirement while still young and in good health is absolutely fabulous.
We hope so !
Congratulations & welcome to the early retirement club. I paid in from 18 & its paid off!
That is awesome!
Congratulations to you both. I'm in Orlando currently and know that you are going to have a happy retirement here in the lovely sunshine...enjoy. Xx
Thank you so much!
Fabulous, such a lovely honest discussion and what a lovely plan you have both made.
Well we thought it was a good plan, but as you will see soon in an upcoming vlog , we have already come across our first problem
Wishing you both a very long, happy and healthy retirement 😊
Thank you
Many congratulations! I retired last year at 55 and my partner retires in 2 months...its the best feeling in the world! Wishing you both a long and happy retirement!
Thank you! You too!
Congrats! Your Vid showed up in my feed this AM. We are in Orlando also and are 4 yrs out from retirement. Enjoyed your Vid. Will be checking out your channel.
Thank you
Wishing you guys a long and happy retirement! 👍🏝️☀️🌴
Thanks so much!
Well done 👏 Congratulations to you both 🤗🤗 enjoy your memories together ❤️ Such a lovely couple xx
Thanks so much! 😊
Congratulations on your retirement. I am 50 this year and am definitely starting to plan my retirement. I’m a teacher and can’t imagine doing that till I’m 68!
Never too early to plan
Congratulations Barry! You’re still looking good and obviously doing well in life. I enjoyed the CZcams! Tom Holcombe
Cheers Tom
I’m thrilled for you both. Enjoy living the dream 😊
Every day !
Good to see you Barry! Congratulations.
Hey, thanks, Clai !
Best wishes for a long and happy retirement
Thank you kindly
Best wishes to you both. Well done. Hoping you will do lots of vlogs. Really enjoy you guys.
Thank you! Will do!
Thoroughly enjoyed your talk. We did the exact same plans in our life and enabled us to retire in Australia. We cannot get a government pension, but our savings are working hard for us. A good financial planner is a must. Ours is amazing.
It makes a big difference
Congratulations on retirement, always great content, thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Happy Retirement Bazza! Loved watching this, we’re looking towards our early retirement hopefully in the next 5 years. Hopefully Max will be able to put up with you under her feet 24/7 now 🤣
Enjoy your weekend and your lay-ins!
I hope so too! :-)
I hope so too!
Fantastic ! Happy retirement and well done. 👏
Thank you!
Inspired by your story and well done for being so organised and planned with your life. You both look very comfortable, relaxed and stress free and that's what it is all about at our age [I am 58 also!]. Wish you all the best guys.
Thanks so much! 😊
Congrats on your retirement looks like you had your pool done at the right time. I’m so jealous of the charmed life you are leading I love Orlando sadly it will be a while before I can visit it as I’ve just had knee replacement still in hospital but really enjoying your videos thanks for cheering me up
Thank you, we hope your recovery is swift so you can come back over
Very inspiring video my husband and I are late 40’s hoping to retire by 60 and you have given me a kick up the bum to get organised, in Florida in September hoping to bump into you and the lodge guys. Big congratulations enjoy every rollercoaster when you can 🎉🎉
Never too early to start
Happy retirement! So glad you can enjoy life after all your hard work and planning. Great tips by the way. Me and hubby are in early fifties and working with a financial adviser as to when we can take the leap and give up work. The sooner the better 😂
That is awesome!
Happy retirement Bazza! 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you!!
Happy Retirement Bazza 🎉
Cheers
Well done, loving the vlogs been with you every week and will be over there end June to mid July. Would love to see you and your lodgers you know who, love them also. But keep vloging love them. 😊
Have fun!
Congratulations on your retirement Barry! You are so right about saving for a pension from an early age. My very first f/t job (back in 1990) didn’t offer a pension, but my Mum being a Pensions Adviser contracted out my Serps and also rolled in a v small pension from when I worked as a Saturday assistant at M&S. That very small sum over 40 years has grown significantly. I also have 2 other private pensions (one from working 18 years at one job) and my current job (which will be 25 years by the time I plan to retire). Fortunately my husband also has similar, so we are hoping to retire long before 67. One of my bucket list wishes is to live in Florida for a year, so 🤞! Congratulations again to you & Maxine - here’s wishing you both a long & healthy retirement.
Tis true the earlier you start with a pension the earlier you can retire
Congratulations! I'm 58, planned on retiring at 60 but the recent death of my mom led me to reconsider. I've moved my timeline up to possibly the end of this year. I don't mind work, per se, it's the waste of precious time that is leading me to this decision. Forty years of selling my time for dollars is enough!
I understand. As I said, you can not get more time, so enjoy the time you have
Congratulation on retirement! Great age to retire and enjoy life together. Im 37 and this is great food for thought. Time goes fast and u cant buy it back. But in-retirement goals and getting their with a plan is as important as enjoying the now. So u can continue to do so into older age. Happy Retirement bazzas. Gav (Cumbria UK)
Well said! You can’t start early enough
Congratulations Bazza.. very interesting vlog. You beat me by 5 years, and I had some of your 5 things, currently living on a golf course in the Philippines, hope to get to Orlando soon !!!!
That sounds amazing, we have been watching a lot of retirement vlog from Brit’s in the Philippines
Congratulations on your retirement, both my husband and i are retired, we absolutely love it! Xx
Wonderful!
Maxine you are like a different lady ! So relaxed and happy 🥰 congratulations to you both , your home is fabulous adore you both , love from West Midlands 😘 xx
Thanks so much
So pleased for you Bazza, you’re a big inspiration to me, love your videos, I don’t know how you’ve both managed to keep your accents
We were too old when we came here to lose them :-)
Good for you Bazza, go and have some fun!
That's the plan
Informative, interesting, indeed! It looked like u couldn’t stop smiling. Have fun!
I was
Congratulations and All The Best! Enjoy retirement!
Thank you!
Wishing you all the best in your retirement.
I have said it before you give us back in the UK all the latest information about our favourite place on earth and now that you have retired hopefully even more fun.
Alice and I wish you all the best and would love to bump into you both in September when we’re over with our granddaughter for two weeks.
Thanks so much, come to one of our meets ups. Details in our Facebook group
Congrats to you both! I’m the same age as Barry, I’ve got a couple of years left as a nurse in the NHS. Reasonable pension is one of the last ‘perks’ of my job. Very jealous of you both, you have worked hard , enjoy your retirement. ❤
That is awesome!
I am a nurse I was on the old pension scheme, started 1982, and I semi left at 55, went back on the bank doing a few nights a week, used money for holidays.You are right the only good thing left is the pension
Congratulations 🎉 enjoy every moment my husband and I are retiring this year at 55
That is awesome!
So happy for you. Like you we made a point of saving hard when we came to America. We maxed on all allowable contributions and were very fortunate with our financial planner. I retired at age 63 and the plan was for the husband to retire two years later as we had 2 expensive projects (one of which was refurbishing the pool). But life DID throw us a curve ball as literally 2 weeks after I retired he had a biopsy and was diagnosed with throat cancer. He came through it, returned to work but his heart wasn’t in it. Like you he traveled a lot, and could be bothered with it anymore so he retired a year earlier than planned. But due to very judicial planning we could financially do that. No-one knows what’s ahead of us. Wishing you a wonderful, fun filled, well deserved retirement
That is so true you never know what curved balls are around the corner , live each day to the full
Happy retirement Bazza 🎉
Thank you
Congrats baz! Enjoy your retirement.
Thank you!
Sounds like the big theme is communicate with each other so you are on the same page. ❤
Very true
Great Vlog! Solid advice, I just retired early too this past December and the bridge savings fund until I reach Social Security full retirement age which is when I will draw it, was key in making this happen. Enjoy your retirement !
You have a big bridge, 20 years ?? Xx
Congratulations! I absolutely love watching your journey. Perhaps we’ll run into you two when we’re down there in a few weeks. Cheers!!🍻
Cone to our meet-up in June , details in our Facebook FB group
@@ThemeParkBazza we unfortunately don’t arrive until the 25th - July 7th. Maybe you’ll pop in a park or Springs one of those days!
Congratulations you have plenty to keep you busy!!! Bet Maxine is pleased 😀
Yes , she is, but drinking a lot more !
Teamwork made the Dream Work. Onwards and Upwards Bazzas. 😊 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Yes indeed!
Congratulations, we’re just planning our retirement, I’m 53, hubby 55 in July & can take his local government pension, which he’ll get a large lump sum tax free & about £400 a week. He’s going to keep working so will be taxed 40% . We own our house, no debt at all & both going to keep working another 5 years, keep saving, & iv had a private pension from 20 years old, being self employed. So it’s 5 years banking plenty for, fingers crossed a fabulous retirement to travel & enjoy our twilight years, wishing you both a happy retirement, we’ve bloody earned it 😊
Sounds like you will have a good one as well
Congratulations! Love the videos
Thanks so much!!
Congrats to you both, every day is best x
Yes it is
Congratulations Baz on retirement, felt like I was at work with all the pension talk 😁
Some great advice xxx
Cheers G x
Yes Congrats to the retiree... but not so much on retirement recommendation to "pay your pension" -perhaps there was option in UK for this but very few US employers offer that option. Irrelevant comment for many.
You are a natural Baz and 14k subscribers. Must be your youthful good looks and Northern charm. I scanned the RR photo but didn’t spot myself. Good luck in your early retirement ( you’ve been around a bit by the looks of it). 60 for me. Take care. Pete
Cheers Pete
This video popped up on my algorithm today and I’m glad it did!
I relocated from the UK to the US last year. Great to hear your views on transferring pensions over.
Most recent advice I received was to keep them in the UK until retirement age. Sounds like I got the right advice judging by your experience!
We were advised to move ours off shore, which was a bad move. What has worked for us is getting them all in USA pension accounts where our financial advisors can help us manage the investment portfolio together rather than rely on tbevlension companies managing it. If you want to speak to our advisors to get their input, you can DM me on our socials, and I can give you their details. They only focus on Brits that have relocated to the USA