What things made you realise you are old (tongue firmly in cheek!)

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Very lighthearted before any pounces with age being a privilege etc. Im actually only 47 and am quite comfortable with aging. That disclaimer out of the way... what things did you used to think only "old people" do but now do yourself?

I never understood a fancy soap being a treat. Now I love going to TK Maxx and smelling the soaps before carefully choosing one to keep in my underwear drawer until I need to use it. It really is a treat!

I own and love Celtic and Co booties. I've had my current pair about a year. Im in the process if slowly going vegan and Im genuingely concerned about what I can replace these with when they eventually die.

Choosing comfortable clothes. Now this is difficult for me. Im not very confident about how my body looks right now so Im having to really fight the urge to just stop caring about clothes at all. Also, as someone who is short and fat, casual relaxed clothes will almost always look scruffy, not stylish.

My chin hair.

DH and I went out for a drive yesterday. In fairness, I'm unable to walk far due to injury and just needed to get out of the house for a while. We did giggle though, especially when we stopped for an ice cream, and only had enough cash on us for one, so we shared it.

How i can gain weight by just looking at cake

TV presenters, teachers, managers, doctors, dentists, trades people etc looking like they should still be in school. Feels like everyone else has got younger not that I've got older.

Oh my God yes! Im training a new person at work. I am older than their mum. How the hell did that happen!

Also, I referred to my son's boyfriend as a "pleasant young man" the other day. I cringed on my own behalf.

Appreciating a nice greetings card and also having a stock pile of cards, just in case. I believe these qualify me as a true grown up now.

Groaning when you get out of the car or off a chair. When arrive somewhere the fact that I check out the location of the toilets before the contents of the menu is telling too🙄

Developing a keen interest in gardening. Never used to give a monkey's, now own 4 different types of plant food. It's only come on in the last 2 years.

Realising a colleague was born in the year I graduated.
Children (I teach) asking me if I am a grandma.
Feeling self-conscious when out and surrounded by gen z and millenials
Looking at myself in the mirror in a short, frilly skirt and thinking I look like mutton dressed up as lamb.
Needing to use vats of moisturiser.
Saying 'oof' when I get up from a chair and going 'ah' when I sip a cup of tea.

A new work colleague asked me if I had any grandchildren. In theory I could have, but it was more the point that he categorised me as a grandma. Brutal.

Suddenly needing two different prescriptions to read or drive. I have so far refused to get the much needed varifocals due to vanity so have to keep swapping glasses.

Owning several pairs of glasses- long sight/short sight
Finding music “too loud”
Choosing to listen to radio 4
Hangovers that last more than a day
Asking for socks for presents
and….. finding your first grey pubes!

I bought a new dishwasher and am thrilled with it! It cleans so well compared to my old one, I’m so pleased with it I’ve been mentioning it to family and friends! I feel very old being so chuffed with it.

I’m also thinking of buying my first electric bike, the hills are getting too hard going at the age 45!

For the first time in my life, being older than the Pope.

Seeing stuff I used to own in beamish behind glass.

There are toys that my DH's much younger brother used to have in our local museum, never mind ones from our own childhood.
But the worst was probably when my DD was doing A level history, 10 years ago now, and Thatcherism and the Miners' Strike were on the syllabus. That's not history, it's practically current affairs!

Buying and wearing comfy cotton PJs instead of satin/silk barely there nighties. Like @StarDolphins said - the chin hair. Also, no longer being a people pleaser, it's really liberating.

Yeh, this one is the killer!

I got used to being older than a string of prime ministers, a retiring chief constable, an emeritus professor, a toothless old geezer on the bus who tried to chat me up, but now I'm older than the Pope have had to throw in the towel and admit that I am officially OLD 🌞

Hard to believe that that strike was 40 years' ago!

Oh, I need a lie down...

Chin hair
white eyebrow hair
catching sight of my neck in the car mirror
Dry everything

When I found out my line manager is 17 years younger than me. 17 years!

I finished my A levels the year she was born!

I would rather have a nice cup of tea and a sit down than pretty much anything else.

Recently-retired DH's new obsession is bin day. 😂

When you get a leaflet through the door with rise and recline chairs and you think they look so comfortable

The current thread on how much phone use is acceptable when you’re out doing something with someone. ‘None, unless it’s an emergency or you’re keeping an eye out for messages from a babysitter’ is clearly indicative of Advanced Years. 😀

The OP, meanwhile, is insisting that her boyfriend, on his phone when they’re out for dinner, is ‘working at maintaining friendships and organising things’. And that it doesn’t mean he has no interest in her.

Didn't think you would ever get to the stage where you living room has two reclining chairs facing the TV.