Your 'old lady' habits/tastes ;)

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Do you like footspa? Have a crush on Alan Titchmarsh?

I'm 47 and I like to get Kriss Kross puzzle books when I go on holiday, I think their main market is the over 70s. I also like Fenjal bubble bath which I'm sure is rather an old lady thing.

Old ladies also welcome to add their old lady habits too! 😁

I was 60 last spring. I have sheepskin slippers because my feet get cold. I might have accidentally bought an oodie (3 of them). They are my old lady habits
However I still play guitar, rock & blues for preference, still ride a motorbike, workout 5 days a week and run.
I have 3 lazy dogs, whom I adore and I like to go off adventuring when I can.

@PuppyMonkey Father Ted - Mrs Doyle is in love with the new Milkman / Lothario? the episode was called ‘Speed’ 3 - Season3 Episode3 -

Skechers or Fitville (look on Amazon) slip ins are fab. I've a dodgy hip. Plus replacing tie laces with the elastic ones do mean I can slip sneakers on & off easier. Blanket on the sofa. Another vote for tea out of china cups. Hot water bottles & I know I'll be murdered by some re plastics Fleece jumpers particularly from Lands End. I have several & some fluffy. They are so light to wear, warm snuggly, easy to wash, dry & don't have to be ironed

Thought of some more:
hot ribena
humbugs
curtains over doors to stop draughts
scrabble on my phone
real books - never had a kindle
saving things like elastic bands, the bells on the Lindt bunnies and any ribbon "just in case"
I hate crushing boxes now - it's become harder to do somehow and tiring
Love re-potting plants and topping up indoor plant pots with soil
Making jam - something about filling the jars and the weird smug feeling of tasty jam full of home grown vitamins and sugar
Not bothering with scales any more
Loving my heated steering wheel and car seats
Not enjoying the sun at all ever when I used to love frying myself.

I like Badedas but my twenty something kids hate it, saying it smells ‘old’.

Fingerless gloves(before Claudia Wimkelman started rocking them on The Traitors).
The Chase. Since lockdown, everything stops for The Chase. I like to think it’s this generation’s Countdown 😂.
I love a DM or chunky boot too. I listen to a lot of Foo Fighters, Green Day and loud indie rock(wrh a generous helping of Dusty, Liza and Barbra).

I also have a bag of carefully folded carrier bags.

Are you me? It takes me about 4 hours to get started in the morning!

I have to have 2 milky teas before I even think about getting up. I occasionally go through phases of reading Bella and Woman's Own magazine and also "cozy" murder mystery books set in the Cotswolds by authors such as Rebecca Tope (and have done since my 20's)

I am a huge fan of Miss Marple and sometimes watch it obsessively as I find it so comforting (again have done for years).

I love going to the garden centre with my dm and MIL and having lunch and a potter and quite look forward to the day I can shop in the clothes concessions there - I'm increasingly looking at stuff thinking "that's not bad actually...".
I'm regularly the youngest person in the cafe there and I think the only one without a points card which I must get round to sorting (one free hot drink a month!)

I won't wear heels anymore and when I had to buy a pair of more dressy shoes for a wedding bought espadrille wedges.

I regularly take a hot water bottle to bed and a cup of warm milk.

I speak to my cats and increasingly prefer them to people.

I love a Werthers and have a stash of boiled sweets in the glove compartment.

I'm considering going to a chiropodist to get my corns removed.

Lavender is my favourite smell.

I live in a big modern house but Miss Marple's rose adorned cottage is my dream house.

People who know me would probably think I'm quite young for my age and (I've been told) "cool". These are my dirty secrets 😂

Im only early 40's!

Are those the ones that have the.... ahem, 'personal massagers' they show a woman using on her neck/shoulders? 😆

Shut up! 😁😬 I’m not quite there yet but I don’t even consider 70s to be elderly.

This thread has developed a new subculture “oldladycore”.

🤣 I've saved TWO today!
One was from a tin of Turkish delight (ding!) that I bought from the RHS gift shop (ding ding!), it is gold and has a little window in the lid so quite exciting, and the other is from a gift set of hand creams (ding ding ding!).

Love my heated duvet, comfortable shoes and proper cocoa
Loathe Werther's Originals, jigsaw puzzles and the Conservative Party

Peace and quiet
Watching the birds from the kitchen window
Horlicks
Comfy cardigan for in the house
Boiled sweets
Sweeping the front step
Choosing a night in rather than a night out!

Yes! Me too.

I went abroad last year and was so excited to find those little Leone violet breath fresheners in a newsagent there and bought several. I seem to remember an aunt having them when I was little.

My tribe!

Cardigans - my mission in life is to prove that you can never have too many.
Tea should be brewed in a teapot, not stewed, and for precisely the same amount of time every morning. Two minutes, no more, and just a splash of milk, thank you. In fact, don't make tea for me - I'm quite fussy about it, and I'm really only happy when I make it myself.
And while I'm at it, please don't load the dishwasher. I have My Method, and no other way is acceptable. No other way makes it possible to wash the sheer volume of crockery, cutlery, pots, utensils, and serving dishes that I manage to cram into it and I'm very proud of my expertise.
Comfortable footwear is where it's at. No heels except for very occasional outings, and my DCs insist my dancing days are over.
Scarves, gloves, hats, woolly socks, and stout footwear are all necessary when it goes below 10°, and what are people thinking if they're out without even one single one of those essentials on a chilly day?
Sunscreen and a wide brimmed hat in summer, of course, and a sturdy swimsuit if swimming. Sunglasses are de rigeur, and a trip to the beach isn't enjoyable without an Agatha Christie or a Dorothy L. Sayers mystery tucked into a big bag that also contains plasters, disinfectant wipes, tissues, snacks, an apple, a bottle of water, aspirin, keys to the last two cars I owned and the last three homes I lived in, with a big wad of receipts and supermarket lists lining the bottom.
Sudoku - need I say more?
Monty Don - ditto...
Hands off my notebook where I write things down. Also off limits is the notebook in the second drawer down in the desk where I write all my passwords.
Home improvement programmes, travel and cooking programmes, and Lucy Worsley's documentaries are enough excitement for me of an evening. Bedtime is 10 because I can't stay in bed beyond 6am any more.
Being up and out for a morning constitutional means I have time to appreciate the important things in life, namely trees and birds. Very little else matters aside from the pot of tea I'll have when I get back home.

I like knitting

I like tea & biscuits

I like early nights

I like staying in and doing nothing / seeing no one

I drive past a retirement village. Coffee shop and restaurant which also deliver to your home. Pool and gym complex. Cleaner and handyman on call. Landscaped gardens. Gated entry.

I’ll be moving in as soon as I hit the lower age limit!

Stretchy halará trousers off fb ads

I’m 63 and don’t consider myself old, my kids are early twenties but ….

I keep thinking I must remember to buy some Horlicks. For some reason my brain is telling me I need Horlicks.

I took up jigsaw puzzling a couple of years ago, I wouldn’t have dreamt of doing one in my younger days but I really enjoy them.

I’m in bed by about 8-8.30 most nights. I don’t sleep early but I’ll watch TV or scroll on my phone or pick up my crossword book, I just don’t enjoy sitting in the living room when I could be in bed.

I have a heatpad as I have early onset osteoarthritis ( I know anyone of any age can get it but this so what the consultant said going on average ages). There is nothing else. I don't know what the obsession with people who are in their 60s etc liking cashmere. I asked my mil if she likes cashmere and she said not particularly!

I’m late 50s and love my chunky wool lined slippers, massive scarf and gloves, builders tea in the morning and ovaltine in the evening, I have a collection of thermal vests, tops and leggings and a variety of cardis and jumpers, some decades old, for cold weather. I hate standing up in pubs and want a table and comfy chair, just home from an after work drink with the (all much younger than me) team and we went to a lovely bar with tables and no music (so I could hear people) for once, it was great so I stayed out for a couple of hours, usually we go to crowded places and it’s standing only and I only last for 20 minutes!

@PGmicstand
I'm like that, I like Sweet Valley High and watch Bring it On and Gossip Girl and Regina George is my hero. But I also complain about the bins not being collected and I glare at young people until they give me their seat on the train.
I don't discriminate either on the grounds of gender I got a lovely young non binary person to give me their seat last week.
I'm old lady and teenager. I'm 58 and I'm on the very edge of just not caring what anyone thinks anymore.

No neither do I but I seem to develop one after a couple of hours on a hard chair.
The modern Michelin starred fine dining type places seem to prefer the hard wooden chairs. I'd rather go somewhere slightly old fashioned with plush seating and my bubbles served in a coupe glass!

Taking off my coat as soon as I get indoors in case I "miss the benefit" when I go back out.