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Re:Early-Retirement Update by tasuki on Monday March 22, 2021 @07:12PM (#26548720)
So, castle or farm? You can't just handwave this question away so easily! Would you hire people to take care of the castle or farm for you? I hear both are quite a lot of work! How exactly would you be spending your time, apart from making music?
Re:Early-Retirement Update by silicon2401 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:29AM (#26551132)
excellent question, by f-you money I mean serious f-you money (we're daydreaming, after all), so my vision is a literal stone castle as well as a nice farm. ideally these would be maintainable just by myself so maybe a modest fort-like castle and tiny homestead farm. not necessarily a disney castle and hundreds of acres of corn.

aside from the farm likely taking up all my time (for however long i'm able to sustain that), pursue all my interests: exercise, language, reading, writing, watching movies/tv, taking photos, making films, lifting weights, kayaking, hiking, rock climbing, cooking/baking, biking, playing video games, drawing, spending time with loved ones, studying, the list is endless.

Re:Early-Retirement Update by tasuki on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @11:49AM (#26568768)
Yea I think the farm would just take up all your time, so no time left for the castle or any other of your interests.
Re:Early-Retirement Update by kozak on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @07:41AM (#26553829)
But who will be cleaning toilets in the castle?
Re:Early-Retirement Update by silicon2401 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:18AM (#26555307)
I have no problem cleaning my toilet; in fact, I quite enjoy cleaning. And with f-you money I'll make sure my castle has a modern toilet, or in the very worst case some kind of septic tank, rather than the medieval cesspit style toilet.
Re:Early-Retirement Update by yladiz on Monday March 22, 2021 @07:20PM (#26548820)
I'm not that commenter, but if I won the lottery, like the big one, I'd buy a castle, gild one toilet, and Instagram the shit out of it, pun intended. Then I will never have to work again because I'll become an Influencer.
Re:Early-Retirement Update by cercatrova on Monday March 22, 2021 @07:40PM (#26549012)
*Gild, geld means to castrate an animal.
Re:Early-Retirement Update by yladiz on Monday March 22, 2021 @07:50PM (#26549104)
Thank you