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

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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?

@Arraminta yep I also like arriving at times I can get my room immediately or as near as and leaving at times I have my room until or virtually until it’s time to go

Sex - can’t be arsed anymore. Been there done that. It’s a rare occurrence nowadays!

Holidays abroad. All the same. Hate airports and the queues now. Hate stag and hen parties on the planes and just boorish behaviour.

Work - 40 years in now. I just milk it nowadays and get away with doing as little as possible for as much as possible.

Shopping - don’t care enough anymore to be bothered.

My pleasures are

Walking my dog.
Good food
Nice Red wine.
Nice hotels in the UK.
Going to London for a day or two.
Gigs - I love music and went to 20 last year so a costly hobby nowadays. Taylor Swift and McCartney cost a bomb but were brilliant ! I loved them. I still watch bands in pubs when I can too.
Seeing my grandchild.

I haven’t travelled much in my life , so I currently prefer short breaks in Europe, I feel totally over uk holidays and day trips .

I don't mind an early start one bit - in fact as I've got older I've become quite incapable of a sleep in - I love early mornings, be it walking around new cities, sitting in the back garden drinking coffee, taking in the sounds, the quality of the light after sunrise. Consequently, we go to bed very early now. I rarely stay up past 11pm

I don't agree with this at all. We saw him at the O2 just before Christmas and it was magical... Ringo and all. Love Me Do made me.cry. Just that harmonica.
He's Paul McCartney. They broke the mould. It occurred to me that it might be my last chance to see Beatles songs sung by an actual Beatle. We've already lost two of them.
Watching Get Back gave me an extra appreciation of just how special he is.
If you think he's past it...just don't go.

Festivals. Thought I would love to keep going to those but.. can’t be arsed.

Mansplainers
Tights
Politics
Career advancement
Sexism

News outlets that try to terrify you about everything. If it's not a storm, it's some life-endangering side effect of something, impending nuclear war, airline turbulence where passengers get hurled off the roof, heatstroke when it's 23 degrees, exploding batteries. Convinced that rolling news is one of the reasons why anxiety is through the roof.

We go to Shrewsbury Folk Festival which is small, friendly and just outside the city walls so you can stay in a nice hotel and just wander onto the site later. Can't be doing with camping. Or large audiences. A few thousand tops.
Hammersmith Apollo is the perfect venue for me. Arena/Stadium gigs are horrible.

That sounds wonderful.

I've been to a farm festival before. That was great. Wish they'd do it again.

@beguilingeyesand @CoffeeCantata I am a lifelong Beatles fan (born 64 in Liverpool!) and I always thought Paul was a bit of a wet lettuce - John was always my favourite. But I agree, Get Back really showed how talented he is. Not sure I’d go and see him now, but I still love listening to their music!

A new thing really - I've got increasingly intolerant since my late 40's.

I have lost interest in fashion and lifestyle magazines. I used to read several but now they all seem like a load of hot air and guff.

Agree. I'm 67 next week and a bit too young to appreciate the Beatles in the 60s, but have enjoyed it without being a massive fan. Did a private Beatles full day tour in Liverpool with a friend over from America earlier this year and was hooked on their story.

I've read Craig Brown's '1, 2, 3, 4' and Philip Norman's massive biography of McCartney since then and have realised that McCartney is a musical genius. I'm so glad I saw him with Wings at Knebworth in the early 90s. His 'Carpool Karaoke' in Liverpool is well worth seeing.

It's surprising quite how many of the best Beatles songs were mostly written by McCartney. And 'Band on the run' is the sound of the 70s for me.

I'm early 50s. Some things I've outgrown are things I outgrew long ago. Wearing heels. Clothes shopping for pleasure. I never liked spa days or nightclubs!

People. Pretending to be interested in people, shopping, pretending to be interested in shopping, filling in surveys, going to the hairdresser, DP having to see my relatives if he doesn't want to, and vice versa; watching the news, celebrities, celebrities who are on the news because they've died (everyone dies), football obsessives, reading anything I can't get into immediately, gender roles (they're so last year), being pressurised to leave money to charity at retail checkouts, charity ads on TV, trying to go to the gym a certain number of times a week, trying to figure out if I'm ND, going out (but going to the theatre a lot more - yes, the matinee); wearing a bra, reality TV shows (although did like Mickey Rourke in Big Brother but stopped watching as soon as he left), Emma Willis trying to be a midwife, worrying about getting ill, worrying about death, New Year's resolutions, trying to change anyone, anyone trying to change me, magnolia paint, answering the phone unless I can see who it is, speaking to bots on the phone or online, too much stuff, sunbathing.

Writing reviews. I just can't be bothered once I have already bought something and it's fine.

My in-laws, all of them.
I've done 30 years of being nice for the sake of it. Trying to make that bond, you know, cos they're family.
After being ignored two years running, not even a simple 'it arrived', no more Xmas presents.
The last two family occasions, I've actually had debrief threads on here. I'm tired of just being talked at, with absolutely no interest or memory of me being present at family events.

Me too, why did they have to pick a Neil Diamond song? 😡

Yep. I have a friend, a bit older than me, who menopaused quite early. I remember her saying she'd never been happier since she binned her partner and even her pets and was now completely alone, responsible to and for no one. At the time I felt shocked and very sorry for her... until I hit menopause myself and started to feel the same way. She also used to say, when something annoyed her, 'I can't put up with that'... and now I feel like I also can't put up with many things that, while they weren't my favourite things, I used to tolerate without a second thought. As I've always made a virtue of tolerance I do try to suppress my first irritable impulse, but being tolerant grows increasingly difficult as my dwindling hormones leave that person further behind. I remember my mother being charming, warm and cheery before menopause but angry, bitter and bitchy after it. I always attributed her unhappy old age to a frustrated life, too smart to be a housewife, nowhere for her considerable talents to go except to prop up some man etc - but it seems it may have been hormonal after all. Although she was hurt when her friends stopped calling she lacked the self-awareness to realise she was driving them away, and in those days - I only mean the early 2000s! - people still didn't talk about menopause at all (I don't think I ever heard her mention it), so there wasn't any help or education available. I'm determined to have a happy, not a bitter and bitchy old age, and to tolerate the hell out of everything. Easier said than done though...

I now think Lennon was a bit of a nob - virtue-signalling millionaire, like a lot of insufferable celebrities these days. But I think McCartney is a genuine person, he and Linda really cared about animals and their welfare and were so happily married. I'm sure he got fed up with Lennon always being cast as the creative force and the genius, he is a brilliant songwriter in his own right.

Stephen King!

I used to love his books buy them brand new when I could order them from the library when I couldn't I was a huge fan but the older I got the more yuck his books seemed to get the more the books seemed to be about his ego rather than the story the last book was gifted to me I haven't bought or read one for years I've given most of them away I've kept dark tower although I don't like a couple of them I've kept them for "the set" but the rest are gone

Stephen King has really gone downhill, quality wise, I think. I tried to read Insomnia last year. Soooo dull. 'Cure For Insomnia ' more like.

Absolutely agree! I loved his books right from the 70s when he first started getting published. My eyes opened to how hideous they were getting with the bizarre gang-bang in "It".