To ask what’s made you think “I’m getting old” recently?

Agree. Had my eyebrows done at the hairdresser's and she said, "Would you like me to do your moustache as well?" I was flabbergasted, "What moustache?!" My DH was pissing himself (waiting patiently to give me a lift home).

Majority of outfits (and pjs/underwear) picked purely for comfort. Me 5 years ago wouldn’t have been seen in granny pants but now I love them and don’t care

One of my first steps towards crone territory came when I was about 43.

My late DP and I were on the top deck of a bus going to visit his DM on the IOW.

He suddenly leaned in and deftly plucked a 3/4 inch fine white hair from my top lip, which caused me to squeal in surprise and protest, then mortification. He thought it was hilarious.

It grows back and I only know it's got to plucking point when I catch a glimpse of it if I'm looking down and the light catches it. Sucks that I have to do it myself now.....

I’m a secondary school teacher, so it’s having students who have been alive for less time than I’ve been teaching for.

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It's alright, you can get two pairs of identical glasses with the different prescriptions and no one need know.

Someone ten years younger than me was complaining how they feel/have got old now 😥

Envious of all of you who can still SEE rogue hairs to be plucked out of face..

Yes, that was the one I had! I called it a Weeble Treehouse because I put my weebles in it. Guess I thought that was what it was really called. Best toy ever!

I am one of those awful women who thinks everyone aged 40plus is old fashioned yet fails to notice she is decades older and dresses like a young trendy person. I did get a shock in the pub last week when a man asked my husband why I had come in dressed like an old lady. He said they are used to seeing me in nice clothes. I had on jeans and a shirt so I think it must be me that suddenly looks my age rather than my clothes! Maybe time for me to discard most of my wardrobe!

40 this year. Said exact same thing to husband. I also have my own bed corner, lounge corner, bathroom corner. My hoarders corners, I call them. I also need a table. Ikea are good for these tables. Oh! I also know because everything hurts and I have 0 patience left.

No, google “Palitoy Treehouse” and you’ll probably recognise it if you are old enough for this thread 😂. My grandpa made us a caravan for our weebles though that was just like our Sprite caravan.

Ooh, was it the Weeble Treehouse? I had one of those

It dawned on me when if I got down on the floor I'd have trouble getting back up. I used to do cartwheels to make my DS laugh and spent half my life on the floor!

I had to have varifocals at 44! But they are brilliant and at least I don't have a separate pair of "readers".

I say things to myself like "I have to take my tablets". The last time I took a bath (in a fancy hotel spa) I struggled to get out.

I don't sleep well but I'm getting up earlier and earlier. But I like getting my pyjamas on as soon as possible and I wouldn't dream of starting a film after 8pm. I say things like "when I was a young woman".

Going into a room to find something and I can't remember what I was looking for.

Coming back out of the room and finding something else that I was looking for days ago.

Trying to explain a movie or series I have been watching by saying "The lead actors was the woman who was married to that man who appeared in the film about the walrus." Or trying to remember anything by saying it's "Just like that green thing over there that you can sit on but it's not leather it's maybe plastic and you can get them in that shop that used to sell those pink things that my mum liked." Clear as mud.

Deciding to let technology slide. Had to ask my son what I did with a ticket that had been emailed to me with a strange square box printed on it.

Trying to us the ticket with the square box but not being able to find it on my iPhone as I had saved it somewhere special so that I would remember where it was.

Never, ever getting the correct position for supermarket scanners. Why are they all so different? Side swipe, top swipe, over there swipe and under here swipe. Designed to make me crazy.

Speaking loudly to the sale rail of clothes telling them all individually why no-one has bought them even when they are so inexpensive. And not caring that I get odd looks.

I've always done this so quick and easy. Just as well as I think I would dislocate my back or shoulders now trying to do it up at the back

Sleeping with a pillow between my legs to avoid back pain in the morning. I am 43, been doing this for 3 years. Going for drinks with other mums and realizing some are 10 years younger than me, and as I can recall all under 40s. I feel very good fiscally though, but recently I realized I couldn't read a book without moving it further from my eyes, got a pair of glasses now. Also nothing makes me feel more comfortable than putting my pyjama on, ASAP when getting home from work. And some music nowadays!... Help!

I have a green jumper which I accidentally wore with brown cords once and looked exactly like that tree house

Sorry but these are great, got my first pair at 30, 32 now and still get them ha

I too have a favourite chair, slippers and a little table covered in all my 'shit'. But what made me feel really old was realising there are adults in the world who are too young to remember 9/11.
What's happening to me? I'm only 38.

I went to a museum and they had a Treehouse toy on display, exactly like mine that I still have at home from 80/81 ish. Devastated!

I’m really cross that the supermarket keep moving things.

I like a bit of slow sewing and making stuff. Threading a needle is now the bane of my life, requiring getting my glasses at just the right distance (I also wear contact lenses), getting the thread just right, with the right amount of spit, and I seem to have lost the feeling in the tips of my fingers for no good reason, so I spend alot of time retrieving said needle from wherever it's dropped, and half the time I can't see it at all. Beading needles are the worst.

And yes, I have needle threaders. The quality is usually so poor I just end up with a piddly bit of wire and nothing to grip to pull the thread through, because it's pulled off in my hand on the return journey.

Honestly my dexterity has deteriorated so much due to age and lack of practise, cos life, I might just take up a different hobby. Potato prints perhaps. Or crayons.

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