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?

I gave up Jasper Fforde's books when I had DD. I realised he shouldn't write female characters, especially pregnant ones.

Beach type holidays just lying around a pool all day, music, as others have said just have no interest in current music, if you can call it that. Most of what’s on tv, especially things like strictly, BGT which twenty years ago I might have enjoyed and really sadly , books, love reading but find it so difficult to find authors that I like nowadays.

Ugh, Stephen King -- the writer who changed the course of my life and pretty much ruined my childhood. In those days, when adults probably couldn't have told you where the children were or what they were doing for days at a time, I spent all my time voraciously reading whatever books I could find. No one ever asked what I was reading or where I got it; I think they were just delighted that I was sitting still and not making noise or mess. 'Fanny Hill' and the like went completely over my head as I had no clue what it was on about, but the childminder I went to every day after school - I was probably 6 or 7 - had all of King's books, and I read and re-read them in a quaking haze of sheer terror. I particularly recall one - no idea which book it was - in which a little girl, who must be possessed in some way, keeps compulsively going to an abandoned cave to have play tea parties with an increasingly putrefied dead cat. The nightmares that resulted from this reading caused me to start wetting the bed, as I was too frightened to go to the toilet in the middle of the night, and to develop all sorts of other odd behaviours that the adults took simply as 'bad' rather than, as they likely would now, as evidence of emotional disturbance that could be addressed. So I developed an identity as a 'bad kid', acting out in school and, when older, hanging with the bad crowd, where I probably would have naturally just been a nerd. The nightmares stayed with me for years, well into my 30s... Stephen King has a lot to answer for!

Reality shows are done to death these days and I dont watch any of them. No interest whatsoever, never have.

Adverts. I left Facebook because of all the ads, I rarely watch shows with long and frequent ad breaks. I don’t listen to commercial radio. I just don’t want to be constantly sold to.

Sexy underwear. Who on earth can be arsed with that scratchy restrictive shite? Don’t get me wrong, I still love nice underwear in nice colours but it has to be in breathable comfortable fabrics and god knows how I ever coped with the tiny thongs I wore in my twenties and thirties.

Mainstream UK TV. Just thinking the other day, can't remember the last time we watched anything on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4/5 etc. Really struggling to think of something. We don't even watch the news on TV anymore.

Anything we watch is streamed via Amazon Prime, Netflix, etc.

Just made the decision not to renew the BBC tax fee when it comes up for renewal in the Summer.

Me too @Badbadbunny. In fact my cable remote was lost in the innards of the sofa for a week and I didn't even bother looking for it. I mainly just watch YouTube on the telly.

Never been on a spa day - it's just never appealed - I'd rather go to lunch and drink a nice bottle of red.

I absolutely refuse to compromise on holiday accommodation, in any way shape or form. My own home is lovely and exactly how I like it. So if I'm holidaying somewhere it needs to go one better.

I'm extremely particular about the size of the bed, configuration of the bathroom, the parking, the views. Even the type of sofas and the quality of the tableware & cutlery. Yes, really!

You sound like hard work.

Life’s way to short for this kind of nonsense.

How can you possibly check all these things in advance? The cutlery? I pretty much always go for self catering accommodation and check the photos and reviews very thoroughly but don't go away expecting everything I have at home. Pretty much, I don't expect to be inside much - so long as there is a decent bed and shower/towels and somewhere to make coffee and nice outside space....I've just come back from Italy where we stayed in 2 places. Both had 9.5 reviews. There was a world of difference between them in fact, which was only really reflected in the price we paid, and not the comments, nor descriptions. And when you book a package holiday via TUI etc you have no control at all over these things.

I am bored of shopping - be it food, clothes, whatever. Especially food - DH retired so I send him with a list. My best friends love to look at jewelry/vintage shops/makeup counters when we are away - totally boring. They can spend HOURS looking at earrings. I have no interest and can no longer even pretend to have. I've done the full skin matching experience and have everything I need.

I agree. I’m not staying anywhere that isn’t to my taste.

Yes, absolutely.

Why nonsense? Why would I holiday somewhere not as comfortable as my own home?

Well I'm glad you holiday how you want. My holiday choices differ.

Exactly. It's common sense surely? Why be uncomfortable?

I’m at both extremes on places to stay. I’m happy somewhere cheap and cheerful as long as it’s clean (on trips where the accommodation isn’t part of the reason for going). I’m also very happy somewhere ultra high end where everything is perfect.

What I cannot stand is somewhere in the middle- paying for a pleasant experience and it just being a bit shit and less nice than my house despite the place having pretensions to luxury. I’d put 95% of British country house hotels in this class.

Quality of crockery and cutlery?

Completely agree. If I'm travelling in the UK and need to break the journey, just somewhere to lay my head for the night, then I'm perfectly happy with a Premier Inn. It's functional, decent beds, easy parking. You know exactly what you're getting, job done.

But if I'm staying several nights then it needs to be absolutely on point. And yes, the vast majority of the ubiquitous, 4* country manor hotels are a bit rubbish. The slightly dated decor, the towels over washed to thinness, the bed side lamp that doesn't work, the shower that only dribbles and the dusty wardrobe, all for the princely sum of £275 a night?

No thanks. Total waste of money. 'll take the Premier Inn over that.

Yes. I like to use good quality crockery and cutlery.

@Arraminta How do you find out what the cutlery is like though before booking?

I always have to try and get the best of the best (budget allowing). I think I read an article about it actually and it’s called maximalism or something.
However I did go away last year with friends with very different budgets to a city known for being dirty - our accommodation was GRIM, there were rats and rubbish everywhere and every breath was 90% Vespa fumes and 10% fag smoke and we ate on street corners and drank €1 Aperols from trucks - and I loved it!!! I felt really alive and in the thick of it and it took me right back to my backpacking days!
I am not in a hurry to repeat but it was actually really really fun.

The way to ensure certain standards is to use trusted suppliers. My favourite holiday accommodation site is Unique Home Stays, never had a bad experience with them.