Guess my age

[openthefrontdoor]

No this isn't going to be one of those threads where I post a photograph and ask you to say how old you think I look.

I just thought for a bit of fun for anyone who like me has too much time on their hands, I would post a few facts about myself and see if you can guess my age.

I will post odd random facts over the next day, then tell you my age tomorrow.

This is a new user name, in case I have mentioned my age in previous post.

Fact 1) My mother used to wear dresses made of crimplene.

Fact 2) My father used to ride a bike and wore cycle clips to stop his trousets from getting caught in the cycle chain.

78 everything you describe also describes my mum including the boots Saturday job

But parents aren't necessarily the same age!
I think you might be something like me OP - big parental age gap, and born to an older mother. both of my parents were born before 1920, both in the armed forces WW2, and I'm young enough to have liked Jackie.

Decimalisation came in 1971, so unless the OP was paid a sixpence at 5 days old, she can't be.

Based on your further clues I'm revising your age from 71 down to 68! I think you were a surprise baby with your mum having you at age 45.

You're a bit younger than I thought, then. I think you must be at most 71 or slightly younger, down to about 67. Your mum had you fairly late, perhaps in her forties.

I'm enjoying your reminiscing @openthefrontdoor . I reckon you're 68 and yout parents would've been considered older parents when you was born.

OP, I put it you that you were born in 1951/52 and are 74.

Given we don’t know how old her mum was when she had her all very hard to work out. People can easily be out by some margin. Despite the clues.

I do, but via my older sisters. Hmm are you 70?

83

69

I was a BHS Saturday girl myself OP

I remember Chelsea girl too and their communal changing rooms 🫤

I think you’re 72

I think you must be around my parents age. Born late 1940s. Probably first black and white TV for the queen‘s coronation but maybe not if you don’t remember the king. Maybe a little later. I say born around 1950. My grandmother was born just before ww1 and my grandfather at the end. Her toyboy. So could quite easily have 2 parents born before WwI at that age.

Do you remember the three day week?

What were your favourite TV programmes as a teenager?

I think you may be my sister😂

I’d say 69

My Mum’s parents were born in the early 1920’s and my Mum is 76. I’m going to say you’re about the same age.

This is like BINGO
Clickety Click
66

Then I need to revise my estimate and say 74

I think your mother was in her 40s when you were born. So I'm guessing you were most likely born in the early to mid 1950s. I'll take a punt and say you were born in June 1955, so your age today is 71.

68

59

Chelsea Girl was around until the 80s. A friend of mine bought a very ill-advised partially see through dress in there when she was about fourteen so early to mid 80s. It turned into River Island in the late 80s. It started up in the mid sixties by which time OP must have been at the very least an older primary aged child or young teenager given her parents birthdates, so I don't think Chelsea Girl narrows it down much. I mean, I remember Chelsea Girl and I'm in my fifties and so does my aunt who is 75. Someone older would also remember it though they might not have shopped there.

The biggest clue is the Boots uniform which I think must have been early to mid 70s when the OP was 16 to 18. I vaguely remember this and would have been a small child at the time, think it had gone by the late 70s. I have a very good visual memory!

The first car thing would be more significant if it had been new when she bought it.