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

This is me.

My oldest sons girlfriend has tattoos, that she got legally 😭 that one really got me, he just turned into a man overnight. I'm 39, he is 18.

I've just been to a k-pop dance class and was the oldest one there by some stretch 🙈 I'm 43

I'm65 but just this year also got a 'little table'😅😅 it has my book, I pad, phone and various bits and pieces, all safely contained, I love it 😅😅

Yep! I’m sure I get beaten up overnight!!

I go to bed, absolutely fine, make loads of plans for the next couple of days, bit of painting, shifting stuff around, moving furniture to hoover properly, wash the window… etc.

Next morning, I appear to have been viciously beaten up in the night - bad shoulder, dodgy knees, pain in hips, bad back…etc. I can barely manage the stairs and spend the day doing sweet f.a. on the sofa, moaning and rubbing deep heat into me.

Losing the cap off my front tooth and having what remained extracted. Now got a big gap until it can be bridged. Wondering if it's even worth an old hag wearing lipstick and learning to smile with my mouth closed.
Suddenly stiff after sitting. All this has happened recently and it's come as a shock.
Even though I probably am old compared to all you young things. Enjoy it while you can.

Oh, last week we had 2, 17 year old give a talk about a leadership course we sponsored them to go on, one of the small audience asked if they keep in touch with people they met on the course, and if they have a WhatsApp group. He put us in our place by saying 'No, Snapchat, we don't use Whatsapp'

Turned 60 this year and have developed these new “habits”;

• afternoon nap
• big pants instead of g strings and bra-tops instead of bras
• talking to myself
• cant watch the news because “it’s all bad”
• need subtitles on the TV all the time
• hate going out in the evening - afternoons only unless a special occasion
• scared to drive in the dark

officially old!!

The thing that always makes me release I am old is when I meet someone who we knew when they were in their teens/early 20s, and haven't seen for years, and they introduce us the their DCs who are now the age they were when we knew them, teens/ early 20s. Happened twice this year.

Loads of things!

my knees are playing up. I have OA and while I’m mobile, bending down, getting off the floor (eg in a gym class) are getting tricky.

my reading glasses are often on a string round my neck.

I’ve been treated for cataracts and have also had a hysterectomy.

evenings in front of the telly with some knitting are appealing.

i now hate crowded noisy pubs.

I can’t do hangovers like i used to so drink less.

my memory isn’t what it was.

the worst? Last week I bought a couple of tops from Bon Marche. The shame.

This is hilarious. I’m 44 and have only recenly acquired a favourite spot on the settee which I never equated to getting old until I read this 🤣🤣 great idea about the tray I might invest in one of those 🤣🤣
one thing that definitely makes me feel old is that I was always a party girl well up into my late 30’s when I had children and had to settle down. Now I actually dread a night out and am always glad when it’s over ha ha

Yes!! This and many other things; aching joints, tired, grumpy, low tolerance for idiots/nonsense ( don't mind that one), oh, and buying stuff in bulk when I see it ( tissues; I have favourite tissues now), and being excited about my new vacuum 😀

Making a noise when I get up if I’ve been sitting down too long … also when I sit down if I’ve been walking for a long time or just on my feet. Always having to have my reading glasses with me. Reluctance to take long haul flights anymore … and fast developing a taste for cruises 😂 letting my grey hair grow out. I’m sick of bleaching it! Thinking about my pension and what my might retirement look like. Being invited to a LOT of 60th birthday parties. Leaving my toxic husband last year. Giving less and less fucks what anyone thinks of me and my life choices. Really enjoying nature! I prefer a walk on the beach to a pub now … Loving my one year old cat and her attitude to life and people 😂

I go to bed fine and wake up with a ruined shoulder,

Feeling stiff if I sit down for too long ,but still wanting a nice sit down and a cup of tea .
I have a side table next to a chair in our living room with a drawer I keep a pair of specs in for watching TV , plus tissues and bits and bobs .I only wear comfy shoes ( usually trainers ) comfy clothes and undies .
I am in my 60s

How unkind

@MuddlingThroughLife , if you’re still reading, where did you get that table from?

This thread is making me chuckle and also feel not quite so bad about feeling so old lately . So thank you everyone!!!

When you try on shoes and nobody asks if you can run fast in them.

My grandma was like that! She would talk about the "old ladies" that lived on her street, she had at least ten years on all of them!

Gosh, I wouldn't feel bad about this. I would however feel a bit queasy at him dating someone young enough to be his granddaughter.

My hearing is shite.

What a charmer! 😆

I've actively invested in fleeces this autumn, having flirted with them and appreciated their ease of washing, warmth and durability last year. I don't even care what colour, just whichever is cheapest. My fashion radar is shot I may have torpedo'd it deliberately because I DGAF any more.

I have begun treating the dog like I did when my DC was a toddler. I talk to her while I re-pot plants, burp her after meals, towel her down in the same way, talk to her as if she should know better when she is being a bit cheeky (staring at my lunch dolefully, being grumpy with other dogs on walks, trying to sit in my spot).

Thinking I need to label all of my storage boxes and bags with BIGGER LABELS because I keep opening things I think are duvets and finding an excess of pillows. Honestly had no idea I had 14 extra pillows. Now feel too guilty to throw them away. Which leads me to my final realisation - I hate waste. I've taken on my grandma's waste not want not approach. Now spending an inordinate amount of time coming up with "uses for old pillows"...

My eyes got so bad, very long sighted then dimness. Glaucoma after six operations including new lenses. My eyes are -.5. it's pretty damned good. But tiny writing on packaging still defeats me. OH had new lenses which are trifocal so he reads the small print now.