You know you're middle aged when...

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You go out in the morning at the same time you used to come home at 😲

The sun rises very early where I live (not UK) so after the clocks changed I decided to embrace this and go for a brisk 4 mile walk every morning before work 🌞 It is truly lovely, it's warm and I enjoy seeing the sun come up. However it was only 12 years ago I used to be stumbling out of a nightclub at 5.45am and looking for a taxi to get me home 🧐 What has happened to me?

I would be chuffed with all of those!

Last night I turned on the electric blanket, this morning I put on the dehumidifier, I need reading glasses!!!!

When your cold and flu stock includes lemsip, paracetamol, whisky, honey, and Tena pants. (Yay stress incontinence)

Yes to both!

Also yes to the clothes you were as a teen being back in fashion. Dd is getting sick of me saying "I used to have one of those" when we go shopping 😄

The main thing that is making me feel middle aged right now is going into perimenopause. Not fun!

Yes to big knickers - I buy a size larger for extra comfort. I was googling arch support shoes earlier too as my feet have started to hurt. I'm typing this peering over my glasses so I can see properly.

When people you went to school with start having grandchildren. 😑👀😵

When you're glad/happy to just be under 11 stone.

When I was in my late teens and 20s, I'd have cried and not slept at night with worry, and been with towards myself for 'letting myself go' so badly, if I had been 11 stone at that age!!! (My 'OK' weight was 8 and a half stone, and thought I was 'fat' at 9 stone 5.)

When you're glad/happy to just be under 11 stone.

When I was in my late teens and 20s, I'd have cried and not slept at night with worry, and been angry towards myself for 'letting myself go' so badly, if I had been 11 stone at that age!!! (My 'OK' weight was 8 and a half stone, and thought I was 'fat' at 9 stone 5

You're pretty pleased when you realise it's cold enough to put on a big coat and a hat to walk the dog glad that you can hide that your hair is a mess and you've got a tatty sweater and old joggers on.

When you end up taking photos on your phone of everything from washing labels to cooking instructions so that you can make them big enough to read as the reading specs no longer do the job.

I’ve been middle aged since late 20s if this is the case

When you ask your DD to put the song Physical on Spotify and you get Dua Lipa instead of Olivia Newton John.

When you talk about how you and Dad used to go clubbing and your teenager just laughs. Same outcome when you start dancing to house music round the living room.

When your DD asks you if your are 95 (admittedly she does have SN and I do sometimes feel as if I am).

When you think that Titanic didn't come out that long ago.

When your DD asks you what that thing is in the corner of the takeaway and it's a phone with a dial on it.

When you fall asleep on the sofa binge watching Escape to the Country.

God yes!

When you turn down two offers to go out tonight because you want to get up early tomorrow morning to wash the carpets and tidy the house because of guests coming next week. I am offically old and sad!!!

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And a rather painful realisation...

I have colleagues who don't remember/ weren't born for 9/11... I was 16...

Really struggling to place the age of the OP! Coming home at 5:45am only 12 years ago but also reminiscing about a time when men fell over themselves in the street to chat her up - I wouldn’t equate that with a decade past the 50s!!

When you get more of a buzz browsing M&S food hall than you do clothes shops

You actually no longer really mind if friends cancel on a night out

Comfort tends to dominate over looks when it comes to shoes, underwear and clothes

You suddenly develop a fondness for jersey tops and wrap dresses with plenty of give, but still flattering.

Why am I upstairs?

You question your surgeons experience based on the fact he looks about 25. Yes, I am that woman. Ps. he did a good job.

I'm really into flowers and the garden. I wouldn't have given two figs about things like that in my twenties and thirties. Oh and yes, I remember when I was a young nurse and all the older nurses running about with their glasses on their head, that's me now 😭

I asked for a rotary washing line for my birthday, and I was thrilled to hang out the washing on it.

Not caring about missing out.
Being happy to be oneself/follow one's own path.
Care about the cold.

Hiring people at work who's dob were the year you left school

Having to explain to my dd what a Walkman was, then having to explain what a tape was.

I took my dd to cypress a few years ago, we'd go out for tea, and on our way back to the hotel we'd see the 'youngsters' on their way out.