THERE WILL BE NO NURSING HOME IN MY FUTURE.................

[Bandit]

THERE WILL BE NO NURSING HOME IN MY FUTURE..................

When I get old and feeble, I am going to get 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 a 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 14 days.

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

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

9. If you fall in the Nursing Home and brake 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 me ship to shore.

PS: And don't forget, when you die, they just dump you over the side at no charge.

Happy New Year everyone...........................

[ProdigalJunkMail]

1. that is a kick ass idea

do you think you can get long term care insurance to cover it???

:-)

theProdigal

[bleedingheart]

2. what a great plan but what about the diabetes you will have

given that the buffets on those things always leave travelers about 20lbs overweight....I can see the headlines now...

[candy]

3. But who will spoon feed you and change your pants???????

[readmylips]

4. Great, original Idea!

except, I get sea-sick and phobia from large bodies of water. Worse now with tsunami shock.

[Bandit]

5. It isn't really my original idea

I received this in an e-mail and thought it was cute enough to share. Probably should be in the lounge but.......

[vi5]

6. I read an article about a woman who does just that....

She is a widow and her husband and her used to love cruises. So now most of her time is spent on one cruise line.

[Greyskye]

7. reality

I saw this a months ago, and mentioned it to my wife, who used to work as a registered dietician in "Adult Care Facilities" (nursing homes).

That $200/day = $6000/month = $72,000/year. This is the cost of medically supervised care, which you won't get on a cruise ship. Most of that is usually picked up by Medicaid/Medicare.

I don't know about y'all, but I sure won't have $72,000/year to spend when I retire! :cry:

[sweetheart]

8. Not i

When it gets to the point of a nursing home, i'm gonna take up
skydiving without a parachute. Probably i'll charter a special
dive over a wilderness area, and jump without pulling the chute,
enjoy the last few moments of what has been a profoundly rich life.

[prayin4rain]

10. That is so cute :)

[amazona]

9. technically this is not an original article

I don't know the source any more of the original essay but we should try to find out to give the author credit.

I met a man who took 63 cruises in his retirement -- a cruise every week. They don't dump you over the side at no charge when you die. They have a doctor and an onboard morgue. I'm confident your estate does pay for you to be repatriated and buried at home. It happens on just about every cruise of any size.