When I'm really old I'm going to be..

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.. the crazy dog lady who has a menagerie of dogs, probably 3 mini dachshunds and a couple of scraggly rescues.

I'll live in a rural village surrounded by woodland, hopefully still with my DH, and I hope I didn't turn out like my own mother and my DC still talk to me and visit for Sunday lunch on occasion.

Anyone else think about this stuff? 😬

Im 60 and dont really think about what I'll be doing because I like to just get on with living but if I had to chose seeming I'd say that when Im really old I hope to have a lot of breathing left in me.

I'm going to sell my house and everything I own and disappear around the world when I'm 60, maybe sooner than that. I don't plan on coming back.

I work in a profession where if I would be caught smoking weed I would be in very serious trouble. I therefore was too terrified during my incredibly boaring youth - first sign retirement I am going to get a big bag of the stuff 🤪

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My friend had a pet crow! Lived in their shed. He was brilliant. Can definitely recommend.

Well I’m 35 as of yesterday and still live in my ripped jeans, band t-shirts and timberland boots as I did in my 20’s. Hopefully still not giving a fuck about my fashion choices when I’m older. My hair will still be waist length but silver instead of black. No pets but would love my dc to be living good lives pretty close by so they can pop in for dinner whenever they want. A big garden that is well manicured by myself (I do no gardening at this point in time).

Divorced. Hopefully.
Don't think I can do another 40 years with him.

I'm looking forward to white hair (my nan had lovely soft pure white hair) - so I can dye it whatever colour I like (I have dark hair. which goes like straw when bleached, then grows out a week later so I have dark roots - it's very frustrating)

I want a big workshop lined with shelves, so whatever thing I want to try next I have plenty of space for (pottery, woodwork, quiltmaking, dressmaking weaving, whatever I see on youtube)

I want my own bathroom, that not even DP is allowed in. I am easy going on carpet. I just want it only mine.

I want the biggest, fastest internet possible

And I want someone else to clean it all...

Travelling with DH, the owner of a greenhouse, I want a head of long, white hair, a big bag of grass and maybe some other substances to pep me up when I need it.
I hope to be able to snuggle and spend time with family babies and children and to live right by the sea with a big garden.
But so long as I have books and a working clitoris, I’ll be fine.

But so long as I have books and a working clitoris, I’ll be fine.

I actually barked with laughter at that!

No idea, really...but I’d like to get rid of our family house in the suburbs and move into a flat in a nice serviced block somewhere more central. Unfortunately we are Londoners, though, so probably only Russian oligarchs will be able to afford London flats by the time I retire!

No desire to live rurally or have pets (well, perhaps a cat). My mum is in her 70s and her life is so vibrant and fun because she lives in London with good transport, free travel pass and loads of arts and culture and parks and clubs/groups, so she is never isolated or bored.

I think I want to be my mum, actually 😆

I was going to live with my best friend, in a cottage with alarge porch where we would sit every evening and assess the bottoms of all the young men going to the pub after work - obviously the cottage would be on the only road to the pub. I would knit, and best friend would plan fabulous meals (great cook), and I would cackle loudly and embarrass everyone. This in revenge for the many comments from boys that we had to endure anywhere we went.

We would have many cats.

This daydream held sway from when I was about 20 until I got married when I realised that now I'd be living with dh and he wouldn't like it. So, about 20 years. I'd still like it, though.

Poor, miserable. There's an old woman who always seems to just 'hang around' near my Tesco. Sits on the massage chairs, but doesn't seem to have the coins to make them work. Wears horrible, old clothes. I'm afraid I'll end up like her.

Really, don't put you're life on hold.

My youngest DD won't let me have a dog. she would move out and I don't want her to. So my want to Foster dogs, has to go on hold.

I've got House Rabbits, though.

I've turned 50 this year and I'm just deciding how I want the next twenty years to be.

""But so long as I have books and a working clitoris, I’ll be fine.""

Unfortunately, thanks to a loss of sex drive after the Menopause, I've no use of the latter.

I think I want to be my mum, actually

What a lovely going to say.

I want to be like Brigitte Macron when I'm 65 😃

What a brilliant thread. Wish mumsnet had a 'like' button!

Smallholding, with two donkeys, chickens, ducks and pygmy goats. Two or three medium sized dogs, who all get on brilliantly and rub along with the rest of the menagerie. Preferably near enough to an RAF base to do lots of plane spotting from the comfort of my own garden whilst listening to loud rock music. Not a huge house, but cosy, with a room to read lots and knit, sew and learn to crochet. On the edge of a busy village/market town which I can wander into if I feel like it, somewhere the DC's will like to go to when they come to visit. And several nice walks past fields with highland cattle/sheep for afternoons out with the dogs.

Bliss.

Living with DS and making DIL's life hell, obviously. I'll enjoy the grandchildren and spoil them rotten and teach them all sorts of mischief.

Or... retire to family home in small town and spend my days growing vegetables and flowers, and raising poultry, etc.
Possibly run a small B&B/guest house.

Or... write review articles.

I want to be like Brigitte Macron when I'm 65

That's not "really old", though.

A bit like my 80 year old neighbour. Driving around in a sports car, having lots of holidays and adventures and starting each day with a swim.

Doing what I do now. Going to work.Enjoy my books,walk in the woods/beach. Why wait till you get old?

I want too carry a wicker basket and buy the things kids are tantrumming for in shops. Their parents will hate me but the kids will think I’m a good witch. At least once I’ll get a kid who’s family can’t afford the things and I’ll make a difference.

Very grateful. Neither of my parents made it past 69. And I will be spending my money, not sitting on it.

Living by the sea, shitloads of cats, baking a few times a week and I'll be the crazy old bat that hands cupcakes out to passing families with a cat on each shoulder 😂

I will be living many aspects of the life I have now, only thing is I will have stopped working. We have our forever home. We're already crazy dog people with 3 sweet rescues. We have so many hobbies, separately, that leave us quietly pottering and bumping into each other for pots of tea and brief chats. My life, minus work, is heaven!

Brilliant brilliant thread.
Thank you for making me appreciate the things I DO have now (over 50). I have quite a few worries and problems at the moment , so this is a ‘count the blessings’ post

Lovely thread