How to retire at any age without Money

Remember those one line ads in the back of Popular Science magazine?
They were there long before the internet. In fact, that was all that was available
and to this day I still read them...

I will never forget the one that read..."How to retire at any age without Money!"
$10 they'd send you the mimeographed copy of the book that they never published.
That's why they justified the the price as so cheap...er...cheaper back in the early '60's. They were probably using the copier at work.

Anyway, I sent in my $10 and sure enough, it came in the mail...a little hard to read. The mimeograph machine was surely out of toner...I still remember the ammonia smell of it.

It was actually facinating reading for me as a boy. I could now retire at any age!
Interesting even then I was trying to figure out why this work ethic was built up to be so great.

"How to retire at any age without Money!"

So the gist of the er...book was this:

If you want to retire in Key West, then buy a one way ticket and go there to live. Work at the diner on the end of the pier for lunch and the rest of the time...voila...you're retired...!

They had example after example....ski slopes, somebody built a building at the slope that had 4 ft by 10 ft rooms. Bunk beds rented for $10/night at the bottom of the slope for overnight skiers. You lived there, took care of the place and made enough to travel in the summer.

Want to retire at any age without money?
Now they call them street people...but I've been thinking about it my whole life.

Oh yea...the guys that wrote the book ..."How to retire at any age without money"
You guessed it...they're retired.

Me too? Guess it's how you define it...

There ya go...I saved you $10 on the back of the ad in Popular Science Magazine.
In todays money...that's probably about $1000. What a deal!