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Time on Our Hands: 168 hours-What do you do?

Published: Dec. 1, 2015, 4:40 p.m.

How do you feel about having 168 hours of free time?

For this Kitchen Table Talk, Mary Helen Conroy and Carol Larson discuss having more time on your hands than you're used to, which can be both a blessing and a curse.

So you're retired and you've had your first cup of coffee after you left the office. Now the 168 hours of the week are yours.

What happens to us as retirees is that we're off the drug of adrenaline, the drug that had kept us going each day at work.

Investigate how you might think about "I have nothing to do today!"