“There are a lot of Ronnie Bryants out there right now.”
Yep! I am one of them also. I closed my business two+ years ago and retired to Myrtle Beach. We trust in God for our provision daily, grow most of our own produce, drive older cars, do all of our own repairs, fish a good bit more than I used to, hunt when the snakes aren’t too aggressive, and live quite well on my meager social security benefits.
I may crank up another business in the future, but not if the government doesn’t change direction. More than likely we will drop completely off the grid when it is just my wife and I.
Ya’ll are living a bit like we are, sounds like. Husband is almost 68, me 65. Drawing a little bit of SS, he is still keeping busy doing the same work he did before retiring, just not officially in business now; but they won’t let him totally quit. He works at a home office here, has to go on the road a bit; just enough to do to keep interested and have a bit extra. We grow our own organic garden, drive an older car and keep it repaired, live well and thank the Lord for what we do have each day. My motto now is “simplify, simplify, simplify”. We still go to town too often, I guess, eat out at cheap places pretty often, shop Walmart probably too much, dress simple, etc.