Post 6 Home Based Activities

Rediscovering Your Home and turning retirement into a Time of Creativity.

As we come into the home stretch of this series, we’ve arrived at this one is all about home-based activities. Retirement offers something many of us have never had enough of before: time.

And time is the perfect ingredient for tackling projects and passions that have long been pushed aside. Think about how many times you’ve said, “We really need to update the kitchen” or “Wouldn’t a sun porch look great out back?” 

Now, you have the opportunity to make those ideas a reality. You can take courses through local adult education programs or even at places like Home Depot or Lowe’s to learn the skills you need.

With practice, you’ll get better and who knows, you might even take on a full basement renovation. Home-based activities can also mean simplifying your life.

Downsizing is liberating, do you really need five bedrooms or enough blankets for a small army? For me, organizing my office was long overdue.

Years of stacking papers without filing them properly finally caught up with me, and retirement gave me the space to fix it. You can also explore new creative skills.

Learning to cook or challenging yourself with more advanced recipes can be deeply rewarding. One of my favorite projects was organizing a collection of my grandmother’s handwritten recipes from the 1920s.

The instructions were charmingly vague, “add enough flour to make a good dough” or “bake until it looks right”, but the process has been both fun and meaningful. I wrote up family history to go with it.

For animal lovers, there’s the joy of raising chickens for fresh eggs or meat, or training your dog for obedience, agility, or herding competitions.

And of course, home activities can be as relaxed as curling up with classic films you never had time to watch or diving into documentaries on history and culture.

Home-based activities aren’t just about keeping busy they’re about creating a lifestyle that brings you joy, satisfaction, and purpose.

Whether you’re renovating, organizing, learning, or relaxing, your home can become a place of exploration and achievement. In our next post, we’ll shift from the walls around us to the people who matter most, family and relationships.

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