Over 50s. Have you outgrown/got bored of anything?

[JumpingDizzy]

Mine is spas or spa days. I used to love them. Went to one recently and was so bored.

Dh and I camped (tent) recently and the place was so peaceful and beautiful I realised I enjoyed this much more than spa days or stays. The weather was good admittedly. But even so walking in the beautiful dales was so therapeutic. Also the wild swimming under waterfalls was blissful. Dh and I often camp but have found the best site. Cost less than £60 Inc electric hook up. First time we've used electric.

Dh and I walk lots. Loads of long distance walking. I also walk with friends. So it isn't a new realisation that I love the outdoors. Just a sudden realisation that spa days bore me now.

Have you outgrown anything? Or found a new love of something?

Outgrown pandering to other people or listening to boring monologues. Outgrown shouting to be heard in anywhere.
Outgrown trying to please selfish people.

I am an older mum, in my late 40s doing school runs.

All of a sudden I got bored of gossip and drama at the gates. I set up my own businesses several years ago pre children and have got more interested and invested in them again. I am now really focused on the amount I need to reach to put in my pension pot to retire well and I wpuld
rather be developing that than listening to the dross I hear from
people who had sex the same
year I did.

Somehow adulting found me..I got a bit lost for a while.

Just had a nice lunch with 4 other 50 year old friends. 4 of us have been friends since senior school. We were just talking about how lovely it was to just chill and have a nice lunch when we used to do pubs, clubs, shopping trips etc. None of us can be bothered anymore! 😂 we’ve just put our next nice lunch in the diary!

Goodbye thongs...hello big comfy knicks.

My husband 😂

Eating out/alcohol/people/family apart from M, D, siblings and my own children and DH.
Television/cinema/theatre/pubs/clubs/drugs

my new loves include
sewing/houseplants/pygmy goats/going to bed early……

I’d love the opportunity to get bored of spa days ;)

I have found my people 🤣 I definitely cba with clubbing and fed up completely with bottomless brunches.

I’m desperate to know you’re pretty campsite?

pray tell xx

I still love a spa (I'll have your tickets) but i hate being surrounded by too much stuff and clutter. won't work for crap bosses or put up with toxic people ... Ra1

What did he think of the film?

Parties, clubbing, all day shopping trips. I would rather spend time outdoors walking our dog, gardening and with my family and friends. As my mum has dementia and is approaching 90, I try to spend as much time with her. I have become more aware of how precious time is. My priorities have changed as I get older.

Omg yes. Objectives and targets and continuous feedback. I just want to do my job and get paid. I don’t give a sh*t if sally in accounts appreciates that task I did for her last month or not!

Men who think you’re single so must be gagging for it

neighbours ( the noise every day sounds like their house is being knocked down)

gossipy work colleagues

Since life is about change, it's not a question of having "outgrown" or even become "bored WITH" anything, it's more a matter of no longer enjoying how entertainment in particular is presented to us, today. Even at 18, I didn't enjoy "strobe lighting" at dance venues in the late 70s/early 80s & which in all likelihood has a new name for the same idea of 'frying' people's brains or eyesight in tte hopes of inducing a sense of sn alternate "resliry". There's no escape snymore, either because film too is reflecting a similar obessession for rapidly-changing imagery, flashes of very bright lighting & strong contrasts between light & dark to elevate or increase tension, terror or excitement - anyone contemplating watching the new "Mission Impossible" movie is forwarned- there is a fairly lengthy sequence of rapidly flashing light scenes during which I had to close my eyes.in fact the director has used light (& dark) a lot in this rather predictable, rambling story.

It's not only the post-50s either, whose brains are in danger of succumbing to some very unfortunate negative effects - here's what AI came up with, after I resorted to a Google search - "...potentially leading to seizures in individuals with photosensitive epilepsy. It (flashing light) can also cause disorientation, vertigo, and nausea, even in people without a history of epilepsy. Additionally, flickering lights can trigger headaches, migraines, and other visual discomforts...." A longer list followed detailing even worse outcomes due to exposure to bright, flashing light, so favoured by anyone intent upon elevating the energy levels & atmosphere of excitement & anticipation at their dance venues.

@Rockcronie and it’s why I rarely watch action films these days - enjoyed something far more like the recent Bridget jones which was just old fashioned story telling and characterisation -

Not just the ones who think you're single. Ones you know from the local you visit with dh. Messaging complimenting me. Usually married or have a dp. Creeps. One messaged me in the pub. I showed dh. We both looked at the very embarrassed bloke. Wtf?
One who I thought was a lovely family man.

Just makes you realise what goes through a lot of mens minds.

@JumpingDizzy in my 1st marriage my exH best friend had a habit of popping round when he knew my H was on a shift - then out the blue told me he loved me and tried it on quite aggressively - I was only late 20s and didn’t know what to do - I never ever told my ex either and see they are still friends in their 60s

@Crikeyalmighty disgusting but doesn't surprise me. He'd have raped you if he could have got away with it. Monster.

I've had enough of flying. Carried on into my mid-sixties then stopped. I can no longer endure being jackknifed into a plane seat for however long the flight lasts especially if there's someone adjacent spreading across the armrest. Queueing for the toilet on a plane is not fun. Some flights bring jet lag - not anymore, thankyou. Then there's the flights that leave at ungodly hours so you arrive at your destination wrung out from lack of sleep or you can't fly where you want from your local airport so have to make a journey of several hours to London, may even have to overnight at some dreadful airport hotel. Having to arrive at the airport 2 or even 3 hours before the flight is a pain. They are such soulless places. The food is often poor and prices in so-called duty free are high. For me, the pleasure of reaching some desirable destination is now outweighed by the inconvenience and unpleasantness of flying there! Anyway, there are plenty of lovely places to see at home and if I get desperate to leave these shores, there are trains and ferries.

Bored of spa days?

But what will you book yourself when DH does something wrong??

You're losing a big duck in your row!

A spa is essentially just a swimming pool and jazucci for most of the day.

I agree. There is more to life. It has all got so complicated and frankly, unpleasant!

Bras.
High heels.
Worrying what other people will think of me.

The spas I've gone to have been nice ones. I can't believe I've gone off them I used to get so excited at the thought.

Dh isn't that bothered by them now either. Maybe we'll fancy them again one day?

I'd much rather use the money towards breaks away and holidays.