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.

Judging how old a person is based on whether they were alive before or after 9/11. A bit morbid but I work with a couple of graduates who weren’t even alive when it happened whereas I was 18. The realisation of that made me feel old 😢

I once took a UK undergraduate group to the 9/11 museum in NY, and I realised that for them, it was just ‘history’ in the same way that WW2 or the Industrial Revolution or the unification of Italy were — they would have been alive, but small children.

i thought, just this weekend, that the F1 racing drivers look like schoolboys.

I'm 70 and born in 1954, nine years after WW2 ended - it might as well have been 99 years for all it meant to me as a child and young person, although we did play on old bomb-sites as kids but not knowing why there was all this space between houses.

The War was really only relevant to old people in my mind!

It's sobering to realise that the bloody Brexit vote was nine years ago yet it seems like just a couple of years since that momentous event.

I need another lie down - all this old age stuff is aging

When the song came out, I thought merrily about how old the dispenser of advice was, and how they were clearly completely wrong about some of their assertions.

Heard it the other day and nodded along in agreement to their sensible comments, realising that I'm clearly the age of giving advice rather than receiving it

I do that when I park...

Not sure why vanity stops you buying varifocals as you cant tell just by looking at them. Buy them, it makes life so much easier. Most opticians do a 60 day money back guarantee.

That the museum in the town I grew up in was asking for photos of when a particular building was operating as a bank. That was bad enough, but then I discovered that the museum was housed in the old post office. I remember both of those buildings functioning as those things!!

Everything I like being called Vintage. Wondering why all these people are so young, everywhere. Thinking people don’t know what they are talking about, because I’ve usually been there, done that, and got the t shirt which is now worn out and chucked and retrieved is now in a shop somewhere being called Vintage.

My new trainee’s parents are younger than me

My now full length streaks of grey hair. I'm 43.6 years old. What is this?

When you get one of those leaflets through the letterbox, and struggle to bend and pick it up!

A local charity shop has a "vintage room". I was at secondary school during said vintage period.

I never used to get hangovers. Now it seems like I only need to smell alcohol to get a one. To make it even worse, the hangovers cripple me. So much so, I just don't drink now. I like a nice glass of wine or whisky but it's just not worth the pain.

Headphones or earbuds. Christ on a bike I don't understand what's so utterly wrong with people. 🤦‍♀️

I probably shouldn't re-read Wuthering Heights, then.... 😂

Trevor Nelson on radio 2 - I remember him DJing at raves when I was a teenager. Radio 2 was for squares and parents

I have my parents old plates and bowls. Mum once said she went into a local museum and found the same plates and bowls on display

I just spent 5 minutes looking at a pair of some type of finch on the telegraph wires outside my house, thinking they made a nice change from pigeons.

I also use the words "telegraph wires". Do telegraphs still exist?

I do much of my socialising at funerals these days! 😏

When I was early 40's, my kids told me that "anyone who was 20 was old, and could NEVER be cool". Life over.

Realising I have been working in my current job longer than one of the young girls has been on the planet!

The thing I often mention is how much food now gets stuck between my teeth. I have excellent oral hygiene and have always looked after them, I assumed they’d stay the same as they’ve always been.. but no!
Nobody ever mentioned that to me! Lol
I now carry toothpicks with me everyday.

When we moved house recently I found myself telling the removals company with complete sincerity that my washing machine is my most precious possession, so please don't damage it.

Realising in recent years that the 90s were 30 years ago… like REALLY realising… 30 years!!

That I quite like some of the clothes in Bonmarche. 😩