My wife said almost the same thing after we both retired in June '16 (FYI we first met as church musicians in "Summer of Love" 1967) - "we're retired, we're not doing church work anymore - we don't need to take on any more gear..."
We found a uke group at the local senior center (tenor uke for her, uke-banjo for me)...
Connected with a couple guys who played the local bar-band/catering-hall circuit in the '60s/70s, and a lady who did the Greenwich Village coffeehouses in the Dylan/PPM era...
Local coffeehouse where I had been playing open mics and a couple solo gigs had a Stones tribute night, sponsored by the local acoustic music cooperative - we thought it might be fun to put together an
ad hoc band...
Played the gig, audience loved us, everyone got the itch again - made it an ongoing venture and went electric...
Bought three guitars, two amp heads, a speaker cab, and a complete PA system (8-channel head, mains/monitor cabs, mics/stands/cables)...
Before Corona (the virus
and the brew...
) and some consequential interpersonal issues shut things down for good, we had a fairly successful three-year run: local gigs, a TV appearance, a regular following of a couple hundred - not bad for a bunch of old geezers...
Never say never...