The daily grind would take up most of the week between Monday and Friday.

Weekends were reserved for a weekend project, or chores around (or outside, depending on the weather) the house. Since most chores aren’t done during the week, people tend to pile on the weekend. Some refer to these as “weekend warriors”.

Sometimes during the week there were things to do after work, but probably or possibly not too often because, well, one has to go to work the next day. If you are raising a child or more, perhaps there were sports practice or games, clubs or programs of some kind, whatever.

While working, there is always dread about, say, Mondays. I particularly loathed Mondays. I went some years at work where I took off almost every Monday from Labor Day (inclusive) through the end of the year. I at least had a day off each week, but most of them were Mondays. Why? Because it is the start of the work week. 5 days of “over working, and being underpaid.” Why is Friday so cherished? Why is the restaurant named “T.G.I. Fridays” and not “T.G.I. Mondays”? Because it is the end of the work week and the start of two days to do whatever you want!

I foresee retirement being more “T.G.I. Whatever Day It Is”. Sort of. I’ll still need a schedule as I still have to know what day of the week it is so I can go to church, go to a local restaurant for Taco Tuesday, throw darts in the league at a local bar, or when to change your underwear. OK, let me clarify that – I’m not in a dart league yet, but I plan to be, especially because I was many years ago and would like to play again. There shouldn’t be as much “weekend warrior” effect because, well, if there is something that needs to be done, save for procrastinating, it can get done whenever it needs to be, even on THAT day. To quote the Dowager Countess on Downton Abbey “What’s a weekend?”

While it might be fun to spend a day off doing nothing but binge-watching a TV show, watching a movie or two, and or playing video games, I don’t foresee this as being a retirement lifestyle. With the “daily grind”, unwinding for a day is great. But doing only that in retirement will probably just get too boring. The community we’re planning on moving to in retirement has a lot of activities at the clubhouse, so hopefully we’ll be able to do things during the week with others because, after all, social interaction is part of a healthy lifestyle. Maybe not every night of the week, but based the current community calendar, we should have fun participating in one or two activities a week.

So I don’t think the alarm clock and calendar will be thrown out all together, I just feel that whatever goes on the calendar and whatever is scheduled, for the most part, will be what _I_ (or we) want on the calendar and what _I_ (or we) want to schedule.