What 'old lady' things you will refuse to do

[Auburngal]

Following this thread https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5253796-your-old-lady-habitstastes?page=28&reply=141706023 it was things like doing puzzle books, wearing big knickers etc.

What 'old lady' things would you refuse to do now and in the future?

Mine include wearing beige and brown. It does not look good on me. My skin tones and personality love bold bright colours.

Wearing skirts. TBF I cannot remember the last time I wore a skirt - perhaps to a wedding nor my 74 year old DM.

Have the same foods each day of the week. I know/knew of old people where they ate the same foods each day of the week. Pork chops on Monday, pie on Tuesday etc. Had upset customers asking me if we had any pork chops in as "always have them on Mondays". Plus if their birthdays/anniversary fell on a certain day of the week, their meal plans don't change!

When there is the word snow mentioned in the weather forecast, clear the shelves of tinned soup. Don't get this at all as there are better warming things than sodding soup.

Mine include wearing beige and brown. It does not look good on me. My skin tones and personality love bold bright colours.

You're showing your age there, wanting to wear bold colours. Uniqlo heaves with young people and there are no bright colours just 50 shades of beige.

Ageist shite. Again.

be a cougar
have a facelift
dye my grey hairs

Otherwise I'll just crack on doing what I want to do without the aching self consciousness I struggled with when I was younger.

Agree. Mean spirited and sneering. And I'm only 40s. My aunt in her 80s and DM 70s aren't at all recognisable in these descriptions.

I would never let my hair go grey.

I refuse to ever possess a shopping trolley!

Nothing changes I've had a mumnet break come back to this agiest nonsense !

I will never refuse to have a cleaner, or a gardener or any help that could keep me independent because " I don't want it going outside the family."
Fuck that.
The other old person stuff is just ageism.

Wearing things because they're "jazzy" and "nice and bright" is more my mum's generation-coded than wearing earth tones, beige, brown. We're meant to call them "neutrals" now. Likewise all the more hipstery millennials and younger who I know have been in big/sporty pants for a while. Went to see Charli XCX the other week and everyone was in sensible shoes and elasticated waistbands. Excellent news imho.

Wearing beige or stone - they make me look like a corpse.
Any kind of crafts involving sewing, knitting or crocheting.
Letting my hair go grey.
Using talc.
Doing word searches, puzzle books or sudoku.
Using a shopping trolley or rollator. I will consider a walking stick though as they can be used to fend off unwanted people or dogs.
Drinking Ovaltine.

Oh @Screamingabdabz, it's really not. It's a light-hearted look at reality - it's probably made most readers smile a little. And how is that ever a bad thing? There's enough doom and gloom in the world...a bit of humour can work magic!

Trouble is thongs DO cut it- very uncomfortably!
Also people of all ages enjoy Countryfile!
The thing about old age-and I am qualified- is that there are no rules. If some want comfy slippers, soup, short, easy to manage hair - fine. If some want to fight it with every cosmetic procedure known to man, and wear what some might call inappropriate clothes- fine, do what you like because as we grow old we don’t care! It’s liberating!

I will try not to say 'when I was young' and proceed to tell someone how much harder my life was or what shite we used to put up with (implying they should put up with it too).

I will try not to roll my eyes at the nonsense the 'youth of today' spout or tell them music was better 'in my day'.

I hope I'll refrain from growing too many whiskers or insisting on planting a whiskery, lipsticky lavender scented kiss on young relatives at Christmas!

Those crafts are enjoyed at any age!

All those who say they will never use a "granny shopping trolley" - I bet you all have cars don't you?
As a non driver (living in London where there's many non drivers) using a "granny trolley" is something you do from when you are old enough to go shopping by yourself (so teens).
How do you think we get our shopping home?
Nothing "old lady" about it.

My hair is almost all grey now and I have a shopping trolley. 😃

I couldn't give a shit about either. Love my shopping trolley too.

Granny pants are ace

The real question is, why this person has gone round sniffing women and have they been reported to the right authorities? (their mum probably).

Go grey

@Commonsenseisnotsocommon
Tell random people how old I am, expecting compliments.
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There are a couple of women on Instagram in their 50s so not very old, who on every post have tried across 'I'm 53....' overages they are. They prance about in not very many clothes and with faces of panicked desperation trying to convince everyone (or themselves) that they are changing the view of aging etc.

They aren't. They look like what they are. Middle aged women prancing about in not very many clothes telling us their age.

It's weird. I don't care how old they are. They just wear bad clothes. If they want to change societal opinions then they surely would do it by I dunno, achieving stuff? Or at least wearing cool clothes or something? Not wearing stuff no one looks good in at any age achieving nothing more than prancing about. They give me second hand cringe

@Augustus40 There comes a point where elderly people dying their hair when their complexion has gone grey, just looks totally fake and a bit strange. If you are still going to dye your hair, you are better to go for totally artificial colours like bright pink or green.

Not for me! I was answering for myself.

Excuse the typos

If they don’t want to drive long distances, then they’re accepting that maybe they are not as confident and safe as they used to be! In that case they’re doing the right thing.

I'm a granny, I play league football at the weekends and lift (heavy) weights twice a week. More likely to find me in Sweaty Betty than beige jumpers. Fuck off with your ageism.

Do wish everyone regardless of sex or age would wear a skirt though. I'm a radiographer and it would save me hours a week when I'm doing the inevitable knees all day.

I am probably your mother's generation so thanks for the tip, I will remember to avoid bright colours and refer to "beige" as "earth toned" from now on. The fashion's a bit tough on us "winters" though.

I did find Uniqlo amusing. It's exactly what M&S tried so hard not to be!

And you will have to rip my granny trolley from my cold dead hands.