Your 'old lady' habits/tastes ;)

[Echobelly]

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 make lavender bags and cushions

I love my allotment and eat freely from it. No inedible flowers allowed!

I wear thermal vests until about May then from October onwards

I wear a "sporting" scarf as my neck gets cold

I wear comfortable clothes and shoes

I have clothes from before the kids and still wear them even if they are not up to date/ fashionable

Yes to Agatha Christie audio books & Sherlock Homes, Poldark audios and any others that I can get my hands on also, History podcasts.
Yes to Maeve Binchy CDs in the car. Ditto the Sounds of Blackness.

Yes to soap bars

Reader's Digest - yes I still read them, and National Geographics too. DH got me a whole stash for my birthday a few years ago. Incredible pictures which have spurred on one of our boys into photography.

Yes to Corduroy in winter

Yes to DMs until spring then Birkenstocks

Yes to velvet and polar necks

Yes to leather car interiors because I want to.

I have got a walking stick and umbrella stand in the hall. Does that count? I collect walking sticks and some of the ones in the stand are only used for drawing curtains and snagging blackberries, but others get used as needed.

Oh, I will start to collect walking sticks from now on! How wonderful!
My granddad’s has a silver Wolf head. Luckily I’m off to a city this weekend, thrift shops and second hand Crystal shops will be frequented.

Crystal glasses, used as often as possible. And silver teaspoons.

This is LOVELY

Thank you for the reminder! I need to add a bag of seeds to my shopping list. I've been keeping a flock of sparrows alive since early December, and the local squirrels are looking quite pudgy.

There’s no hope for me - DH and I buy bird food in industrial quantities, and have a semi-tame robin (he’s not really, he’s just worked out we're complete pushovers) who flies into the garden-room and perches reproachfully on the table if we leave the door open and we're a bit late providing his food, just to remind us to get a move-on. If a robin could tap its foot and look pointedly at his watch that’s what he’d be doing.

Its lovely isn't it? I have got a cheeky robin and a couple of others (biggish garden) and the blackbirds who grew up in my garden and cheeky robin stalk me around the garden until I put food out. We have a porential rat problem so I can only put out small amounts at a time. Last summer I had a young fully feathered carrion crow who either fell or jumped out of his nest and then realised he couldn't fly. He hid in the undergrowth for about two weeks, very shy so I started putting out bits of food near where he was hiding. He learned that I was safe and now turns up early every morning to get food before the rest turn up. Best summer ever was when a whole clutch of wrens fledged they spent a day practicing in the garden shepherded by their parents and it was like a whole gang of LOUD flying mice. Cheeky robin.

I had a baby crow like that several years ago. I was sitting on the grass in the sun, and he bit my big toe because I was eating cherries without sharing them!

They’re so funny and endearing, @godmum56 . This was mine from a couple of years ago - really tame (sadly no longer with us). We also had an amazingly friendly female blackbird who lurked outside the back door on an almost permanent basis and came rushing right up to your feet to get her food. I often catch DH muttering things about ‘bloody Dr Doolittle’ under his breath 😂

This is so lovely. We feed the birds in our front garden. We have a resident Robin, lots of Bull Finches, Gold Finches, Great, Blue and Coal Tits and a beautiful Blackbird. We don’t really get them in our back garden, so they don’t become tame. This is because our cats hang around the back garden.

Ooo I love a crystal glass and a crystal trifle bowl 😍

I love the birds.

One older lady habit I have is to always kick off my slip-on indoor shoes off before going upstairs, for more security in avoiding falls. Or should I say to having a fall, as it becomes when you are chronologically enhanced.

I have also reached the age where I leave slip-on slippers at the bottom of the stairs for fear of falls!

25 years ago my mum’s friend was found dead at bottom of stairs, with a slip on slipper on stairs. Officials put it down to she slipped from stairs and cracked skull.

I am a retired Occupational Therapist. Better to give up the slip on slippers altogether.

How awful 😔 I feel secure in mine, but then, due to having a dodgy foot, I have to hold a handrail and take care on stairs.

@echt Love it! “Chronologically Enhanced…” 😁😁😁

Not sure whether it’s been mentioned, but I never have bra straps showing. It’s called ‘under’-wear for a reason.

Yes my slippers are always left downstairs for that reason

Dangerous on stairs

When I was little my mum asked me so often and so seriously whether her underslip was showing beneath the hem of her skirt that I actually thought it was against the law to show it.

I do hate it in the summer where ladies wear strappy/strapless/halterneck style tops/dresses with a normal strapped bra.

If you cannot find a strapless bra that fits or supports you well, don't wear the above!

I'm OK with someone wearing a strapless black dress with a black strapped bra (providing the top of bra isn't on show at front) as from a distance it looks like a strapped dress.

Tbf strapless bras can be very uncomfortable and many women struggle to find even normal bras in comfortable sizing because not everyone conforms to the standard sizes (then of course, cost becomes a factor - bras start getting very expensive in non standard sizing)

• desperately waiting for DD to come back from a birthday party at 11.30 so we can go to sleep
• sheepskin slippers
• fluffy blankets
• finding pleasure in buying kitchen gadgets
• comfy clothes
• long hikes are amazing and not boring
• very comfy shoes. love my Hokas

I’m 55 and still feel young at heart, but I have noticed myself …

• loving gardening and garden centres
• wanting to have a cosy night in my pj’s rather than go out
• avoiding uncomfortable shoes and heels
• getting excited over doing a diarama
• Not caring about what other people think about me

I used to be a party girl. I hated staying in and used to go clubbing several nights a week. How times have changed …😂