{ "item_title" : "The Man's Guide to Doing Absolutely Nothing", "item_author" : [" Ray Tolliver "], "item_description" : "You are in every room.My wife said that to me in March of my sixth year of retirement. She was not angry. That was somehow worse.I had spent five years being helpful. I emptied the dishwasher before it finished. I reorganized the cutlery drawer, which was, frankly, wrong. I stood in doorways being available. And every week it got a little worse, and I could not work out why.Here is what nobody tells you, and it took me sixty-three years to find out: your wife does not mind that you are doing nothing. She minds that she can see you doing it.This is the other retirement book. No purpose. No passion-powered second act. No learning Mandarin at sixty-eight. Just a chair, a garage, a bench outside the library, and forty-one years of getting it wrong first so that you don't have to.Inside: The Two-Hour Rule - leave the house between nine and eleven, every weekday, without being asked. A bench counts as a destination.The Helpful Correction - why being right about the cutlery drawer makes it worse, not better.Load-Bearing Silence - how to tell the quiet that means something from the quiet that means nothing, without asking her.The Garage Is a Country - the one room where your standards apply, and the small tax you must pay to keep it.The Hardware Store Gambit - the art of attending a store without requiring anything from it.The Strategic Nap - before three, under an hour, and never, ever just resting my eyes.The Honey-Do List - what it actually is, and what happens if you finish it. I finished it once. Do not finish it.How to answer What did you do today? without handing over a receipt.You will also meet Gordon next door. Gordon retired seven years ago and has not sat down since. Mondays are gutters. Fridays are the lawn. Fifty-two lawns a year, including February. There is no gap anywhere in Gordon's week, and it is not because Gordon is busy.I spent thirty-eight years as a claims adjuster, walking into rooms and working out what had actually happened as opposed to what everyone was pointing at. It turns out to be reasonable training for marriage and excellent training for retirement, and I did not notice either until I was well past sixty.Printed in genuine 16-point large print on cream paper, because we are not twenty-five.A retirement gift for a husband, a father, a grandfather, or any man who has just handed back his badge and has no idea what Tuesday is for.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/819/142/9798191424743_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "15.49", "online_price" : "15.49", "our_price" : "15.49", "club_price" : "15.49", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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