sounds like a plan!

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justleesa

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AN ALTERNATIVE RETIREMENT HOME


There will be no nursing home in my future......... here's what I'll do:

When I get old and feeble, I am going to get on a Princess Cruise Ship.

The average cost for a nursing home is $200 per day. I have checked on reservations at Princess and I can get a long term discount and senior discount price of $135 per day. That leaves $65 a day for:

1. Gratuities which will only be $10 per day.

2. I will have as many as 10 meals a day if I can waddle to the restaurant, or I can have room service ( which means I can have breakfast in bed every day of the week).

3. Princess has as many as three swimming pools, a workout room, free washers and dryers, and shows every night.

4. They have free toothpaste and razors, and free soap and shampoo.

5. They will even treat you like a customer, not a patient. An extra $5 worth of tips will have the entire staff scrambling to help you.

6. I will get to meet new people every 7 or 14 days.

7. TV. broken? Light bulb need changing? Need to have the mattress replaced? No Problem! They will fix everything and apologize for your inconvenience.

8. Clean sheets and towels every day, and you don't even have to ask for them.

9. If you fall in the nursing home and break a hip you are on Medicare. If you fall and break a hip on the Princess ship they will upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life.

Now hold on for the best! Do you want to see South America, the Panama Canal, Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, or name where you want to go?

Princess will have a ship ready to go. So don't look for me in a nursing home, just call shore to ship.
 
This would be just great, I'll have to show this to my wife, she works for MetLife.
 
Leesa........ you are one sneaky little hula girl!


I love it and will send it to my old folks!
 
OMG please tell me that nursing homes aren't really $200 a day?? Thats insane! :11:
 
Actually a friend of mine is the sneaky one Mark...But a good one none the less :D

Well Kayla, that's why they say you have to start saving for old age now! ;)
 
Love the cruise ship idea. I can see no down side to this gem of a plan. I'm in! How about we all try & retire on the same ship.
 
justleesa:
and with whats left over from the 65 bucks we can get a compressor installed???
What - and call it 'Gerry's Scuba'?
 
OK, its kinda late...I'm missing what Gerry is supposed to mean....help!
 
Sorry - maybe a little too British!! - Gerry = Cockney rhyming slang for 'geriatric'! Sorry! :05:
 

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