My bedside table looks like it belongs to a senior citizen.

[Wherecanitbe]

My once minimalist bedside table now looks like it belongs to a much older person.

It is now taken up with - a box of tissues, allergy eye drops, ibuprofen gel, specs, extra strength hand and foot cream, bottle of water and paracetamol.

It has now become obvious to me , I am no longer "young and hip!"

when and what was the moment you realised you were not so young anymore?

I needed my hand holding to get down a big step

I make an 'oof' noise when I sit down in a low comfy chair

I look at shoes in shops and find myself drawn to the ones that I think 'ooh they look comfy'.

And when you get back up again😆

When I was at the swimming pool, and instead of thinking, "he's hot," about a new lifeguard, thinking, "ah, I'd have been so keen on him when I were in my 20s. I hope his Mum's proud."

When my hospital doctor looked really really young

yes to the "oof"!

Finding small print on food packets etc hard to read, even though I already have reading glasses. If it's this hard in my 40s how on earth am I going to read anything in my 70s?

I can totally identify with this. I think that about most of the actors in films and sports people

After age 40 I found I had to buy a magnifying glass to read instructions on items and or ingredients on packets of tins.

I spent this BH morning paying a couple of bills and organising my filing cabinet while DP took the baby into town and I have zero regrets.

Me & DH this morning, commenting on overgrown trees & bushes at the end of our road. Then further wondering if it was the responsibility of the council or the homeowners to trim them back.

When I went to buy Calpol at Asda and the cashier came to authorise the challenge 25. She literally looked me up and down before selecting don't challenge. Aww 😔

@Wherecanitbe This what drawers were invented for. Open, sweep, close - instant de- ageing effect.

@Offredismysister I had the same today! I even took a picture of a tree and sent it to dh 😂Dh's response was "that's a proper tree that is".

I’ve just bought a Shark to join my growing collection of similar appliances, in pursuit of vacuum cleaner Nirvana!

I've just turned down BH drinks with friends in a beer garden because I've got some work I'd like to get finished. Young me does not recognise old me.

left a wedding at 9.30pm last night, home, cup of tea, in bed by 10.30. Wedding still had 1.5 hours left. No regrets.

When I had to keep scrolling down to get to my year of birth for some survey.

My first white pubic hair.

YY to the bedside table.

Also, now my DC are in their 20s, I can’t watch sex scenes on telly. I don’t want to watch people the same age as my kids getting it on. It makes me feel like a right perv. Normal People for example - nope.

I've started using the sentence starter 'When I was young we never had...'

Still waiting to grow up, 65 and loving it.

Still waiting to grow up, 65 and loving it.

Perhaps when I do grow up I won't need to post twice.

My bedside cabinet has... Blood pressure tablets, sleep aid, iron tablets and biotin (IBD need additional supplements) contraceptive pill and more vitimins. Hand cream, foot cream, lip cream, eczema cream, hydrocortisone and anti fungal cream for peeling fingers and a bottle of water to help with all the pills. 😂