86-Year-Old Woman Lives Full-Time on Cruise Ship

Lee Wachtstetter, an 86-year-old widow, has been living on a curries ship for almost seven years. "Mama Lee" has been living on the luxury cruise ship Crystal Serenity, since her husband passes away. When he was alive, Lee and her husband had gone on 89 cruises during their 50-year marriage. When her husband passed, she sold her five-bedroom, 10-acre Fort Lauderdale home and moved onto the ship permanently. Since then, she has lived on the ship longer than most of its over 650 crew members and has almost tripled the number of cruises she had gone on with her husband and has gone around the world 15 times.

According to the APP, Wachtstetters "stress free life" costs her $164,000 a year. The cost covers her "single-occupancy seventh deck stateroom, regular and specialty restaurant meals with available lunch and dinner beverages, gratuities, nightly ballroom dancing with dance hosts and Broadway-caliber entertainment — as well as the captain's frequent cocktail parties, movies, lectures, plus other scheduled daily activities."