Do you consider 50+ old?

[AllStarfish]

Yes - YABU
NO - YANBU

If no, what age to you consider old.

No I don't think 50 is old.

Tbh I don't think any age is arbitrarily 'old' now as so many people are so fit and healthy into their 70s and even 80s.

No, but I'm about to turn 45 and I don't feel old so it's not old.

Pretty much how everyone else is going to think.

30 is old to a 8 year old.
80 is old to a 50 year old.

Depends on the person, sister in law is the same age as my mum, I see my sister in law as older than my mum. This is due to many factors like health, habits, activity levels.
My mum has good health/habits and is active, sister in law the opposite.

My goodness, no. I'm 50 and feel pretty young still. I have a young teenage child, a full-time job and a busy life.

If 50+ is old, what is 60+, 70+, 80+, 90+....? Antediluvian? Prehistoric?

No 65+ is old. I say that because that's when I noticed a change in my parents, they suddenly seemed old. 50 to 65 is now late middle age isn't it?

80+ is old to me now but I’ll admit when I wax young I thought 35+ was old!

Having said that - my DM (born 1937) has been 'old' since she hit her 40s. The clothes. The hair. The hyperchondria. The racism. The scoffing at anyone else who went anywhere or did anything vaguely interesting past the age of 40. She's 83 now ... 43 years of behaving like a 90 year old.

My MIL on the other hand (born 1949) is sprightly and wordly and active and interested in everyone and everything. Young at heart and mind. Still up for a go at anything. I know who i want to be like at 65.

@Kimblebee19
I can remember being about 14 and suddenly deciding to work out how old i'd be in the year 2000.

I found out i would be 32.

I actually declared to all around me that i hoped i'd be dead by the year 2000 rather than become THAT decrepit

For me, over 65 is old, but I am 29, so I will probably feel differently in 20 years time.

I do believe mentality makes you old more than anything else. Some keep moving and active, and some assume they are dying once they hit 70. I know DHs 4 grandparents have all been saying for the past 10 years that this may be their 'last Christmas', despite being in perfect health and in their 70s/80s.

I think “old” is different from person to person.

I’ve known a few people who I would have called “old” in their late 40s.

My deceased grandmother was definitely “old” by 50 - blue rinse and all.

OK - I accept I lost the debate on this one!

@IrisRainbow

I'd say 70+ is old.

Ask me in ten years time and I'll tell you 80+ is old.

No, I promise 70+ is not old at all. Don't ask me how I know....

No! I'm 55 and although I have a disability from birth, I'm still very mobile and do everything I'd like. I'm still interested in everything as ever The ultimate compliment being I get on well with my DS's friends (26,23,19 It's outlook not numbers which is ageing I think

Oh and I consider 80+ old

@zigaziga

I think “old” is different from person to person.

I’ve known a few people who I would have called “old” in their late 40s.

My deceased grandmother was definitely “old” by 50 - blue rinse and all.

I agree with that.

I'm older than my MIL was when I first knew her I I look younger-partly down to clothes, partly down to hairstyles & on my part the luck of not being very grey in my late 50s.

That's looks though.

My MIL is slim & less health problems in her 80s than I have!

My dad had no health problems & was walking & biking as I'd always known him to until his early 80s.

Well, it depends how long you live! 50 is young if you die at 100. I'm 53 and genuinely do not feel old at all. But regardless of this maybe I AM old. I don't know.

I had my children in my 40s and probably look like little old lady to the young mums at the school gates. But they're mostly really lovely and I get along well with them. We're not TOO many worlds apart. I think I knit a bit more than they do

Well this at least has made me decide to get off my arse & go for a walk before it's too dark!

To a 17 year old - yes.
To a 60 year old - no.

No. My parents are 50 and younger at heart than a lot of people my age.

I think it depends on the age of the person you ask.

I'm 25 and my mum is 57 and I don't think she's old.

I'd say 65+ is old. Retirement age.

I did when I was 30, now I’m almost 50, no I don’t! I don’t feel Any different to his I did 20 years ago.

I am 58, feel quite old, but it's all about context.

80 is old.

My parents are in their 70's and still able to do everything they want to.

59 and don't feel old.