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 husband and I had a very serious discussion in the supermarket recently about which mop we should buy. Good grief.

Feel consolation that you are nearer to the late 1900s than the mid 1900s.

The realisation that DH is turning into his late dad & I am turning into my late MIL, no bad thing, they were wonderful people. But so often I say something and think that’s just what she would have said!

Also feeling old around my kids, DS2 (22) said yesterday, I will give them my instagram, no point giving a phone number, no one does that anymore 😂 god I remember the days of only a home phone, before mobiles.

When I first saw Failure to Launch I identified with the Zooey Deschanel, young, quirky character.

Watching again recently I was firmly on the side of Kathy Bates.

Also I realised when watching Gavin and Stacey that my DH and I are Pam and Mick. Particularly when she was flapping about getting the buffet ready for guests arriving in 6 hours and he was calmly practising his golf putts.

I'm not old (yet!) But definitely a reminder that I'm not young either when my daughter asked what a "crab" is in gymnastics and I tried to show her and quickly realised there wasn't a cat in hells chance I was going to be able to do it!

Not being searched for drugs at music festivals anymore!

Realising that I was born closer to the war than the year I'm living in

Oh yes. Seeing myself as Elizabeth Bennett when I'm probably the exact age of Mrs Bennett!

This comment wins, I’m laid in bed laughing my head off, l can take my time being retired, the joys.

And on this line, I'm older than Hamlet's mother. Probably quite a bit by now. Get over yourself, Hamlet. Get yourself a proper job.

Not only traumatic but I keep seeing articles and posts about how many deaths are related to falls as you get older!
Need to start strength training, stretching etc to keep muscles active and try to avoid falls as we get older

With caution! I had a fit of enthusiasm after reading mn threads, overdid it and ended up injured. I didn't even fall over - i just did some skipping.

I had the best birthday ever this year.

I made a Victoria sponge cake and had a slice with a cup of tea, while binge watching old episodes of All Creatures Great and Small (the proper one). DH was napping with his head on my lap, the dogs were snoring and I felt content.

Even 45 year old me would have been horrified 😂

I compulsively knit jumpers for people, just like my granny (who taught me) did. Fancy ones, with cables and everything.

As per a PP, having no clue who any current charting musicians are.

I have poseable hair!

I could beat Saddam Hussain in a moustache competition.

Meanwhile I’ll get on with shagging my dead ex’s murdering brother! C’mon, Gertrude. Admittedly your son is maddening, but marrying your BIL when your DH was barely cold is a bit of a dick move… 😀

(I find I now read Jane Eyre in terms of safeguarding, employment conditions and withholding of salary.)

When I saw the Reagan v Brezhnev/Gorbechov era was a syllabus on my daughter's History GCSE and realised Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Two Tribes anti-Cold War song came out 40 years ago! How long?!!!

I realised I was old when I realised I used to be the first person to arrive at a party and the last to leave and now I'm the first to think I'd rather just stay at home!
Also, realising that every tradesperson who ever turns up these days is practically a teenager.
Oh, and saying that every cover version or sampled part of a song will never be as good as the original, even though a lot of the stuff from the 1980s I liked (Soft Cell's Tainted Love, Japan's I Second That Emotion, The Beat's I Can't Get Used to Losing You, Shakin' Stevens' Green Door/This Ole House) were all actually cover versions that I loved!
I'm only 51 but sometimes I feel bloody ancient these days!

It is a while back, so even the comment makes me old - but the day I switched over from Top of the Pops to watch Emmerdale Farm.

(even the mention of terrestrial TV makes me feel ancient).

Even the fact you've said that the All Creatures Great and Small you watched is 'the proper one' is a sign of getting old! Ha ha!

I had the horrendous realisation, rereading Pride and Prejudice a few years ago, that Mrs Bennet is younger than me. We know she married very young and Jane is 22, so she can’t be older than her early 40s at the start of the novel. I was 45 with a 10-year-old when this dawned on me!

Sore knees, a sore hip, arthritis in my spine, increasingly crap eyesight, an increasing tendency to use phrases my mother did..

Yeah, but I bet old H was as boring as fuck, off battling all the time. One of those mn husbands with a hobby that keeps him out the house. At least Claudius liked to party.

Someone asking me if I could benefit from a “senior’s discount”. I’m not yet a senior by any means. It annoyed and upset me.

I’m 48. For me it was when I realised some doctors look like they’re barely out of school.

I went to see an Orthapedic consultant with my son last week and he looked about 17.
Oh, and listening to a song on the radio and saying to the kids: I remember going to see this band 40 years ago !
WTF!!