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?

Seb Faulks. I knew I’d left someone out! They’re like a trifecta of Terribly pleased with itself The World According to A Certain Type of Man.

This.

I’ve also outgrown fuckwitted men (by which I mean the ‘moody and interesting types’ I fell for in my youth). Although this happened long before 50.

Work. I can’t wait to retire. I have just had enough of all of it. I want as much as possible of the time I have left to be my own, and I’m saving hard to make that happen.

Music. I no longer listen to music radio, go to gigs or play albums, which would astonish anyone who knew me in my teens & 20s. Why? Firstly, I got bored of new music. Once you have heard several generations of indie bands, boy bands, earnest singer-songwriters etc you realise that there’s nothing new and they are all rehashing & repackaging the past.

Also, I always thought middle aged people who were only interested in the music they liked as teenagers and went to cheesy nostalgia gigs were a bit sad. Still do. Which is why I decided not to become one.

No need for the passive aggressive smiley. I just don’t understand how anyone could constantly only listen to old music. It would be like re-reading the same book over and over. Unstimulating. I’m genuinely perplexed!

Being on committees

Big nights out

Fake friends - meeting friends an going out with people who I just happen to have an association with. Time is precious. I would much rather meet friends I genuinely love one on one or in small groups.

All inclusive holidays - used to love them when dc were younger. Now prefer quieter holidays and travelling around.

Nighclubs/concerts/mosh pits - too loud and noisy and everyone looks so young too!

Fast fashion/latest designer gear - I hate going to the shops and buying things online and the faff of returning all of it.

Charity shops. I started frequenting them in my teens and over the years picked up some absolute lulus (from first editions to Ferragamos), but the quality has gone down so far. I suspect the best stuff now gets sold online and/or picked up by people who'll resell it at 5x (or more) the price in their "midcentury modern" or other "vintage" shops (they have the absolute bloody nerve to call "vintage" things I wore in my 20s... and my 40s, tbh). In any case, I often see something I like and realise I already have a better version of it. Not only do I have loads of things I don't wear or use and am getting rid of (mostly to charity shops so they'll have a few decent things to sell), but, if I do spot something I like, I almost always think, Nah, already got one like that, only nicer. I just have too much stuff around already (as others have noted) and enjoy giving away so someone else can have the pleasure of owning it.

Women's magazines, soap operas, easy reading type cheap fiction novels, caring about the latest girl or boy bands, celebrity gossip columns, crowded noisy bars and standing up- all things I enjoyed in my 20s and 30s.

I still like listening to the radio and hearing new music, going to the pub, theatre, seeing a good band or other live music, walking in the countryside, shopping and fashion, makeup and perfume, cocktails, wine, watching a good film or series, reading- but something more challenging or historical and only well written books.

Pubs clubs socialising in general. Trying to fit In. Chicken lit novels.

Now a night on the sofa reading a good detective novel with the fire on not speaking to anyone is the perfect night in.

My mothers warning is now my perfect night. If you don t behave you will stay in all weekend and not see anybody.

My tastes haven't changed, but I'm probably more confident to say that I'm not keen on spas, fashion,, high heels, late nights

Or maybe I was old before my time

Afternoon walk, second hand bookshop with plenty recipe books, fish pie for dinner? I'm in heaven

Would you like to share my bourbons? ☕ 😁

I think you're right. It's a meno thing. DH thinks I'm "sad". I'm not, I'm just quite content to do nothing.

Can you take an ipad or similar? Hide in the shade with headphones and get stuck into a good drama series.🤞

Other folks children

I have a lovely cushty home based well paid job but am slowly Stealth quitting….

Same here. I often gave TA a miss during December to avoid yet another tediously repetitive Linda Snell pantomime saga, but one year I just forgot to start listening again in the new year. When I did get round to tuning in, I had no idea who the characters were or what was going on. So that was that.

Shaving my legs. God it's such a chore now. I will only do it if I am on holiday or if they are start getting caught on my bedsheets.

Going to the dentist, as in, I no longer have any positivity that going to the dentist, getting the work done, getting the scraping/cleaning done, has any helpful effect whatsoever. I just still seem to get painful toothache and lose a tooth every few years no matter how 'good' I am. I'm so over it.

My dad has all his teeth and never had a filling at almost 80. His secret? He has never been to the dentist . I now wish I'd followed his lead.

Diets, but need to alter mind set, it’s about health now not looking good in clothes anymore.
currently feel like the elephant in Zoe& Beans’ magic hoop story through eating too much chocolate etc

I used to find long walks a bit dull if I'm honest, but now it seems pretty zen to just have to think about putting one foot in front of the other all day long and nothing else.

I was born 55 so never did clubs or pubs, never particularly interested in fashion but do like nice classic clothes and shoes.
The big thing I've outgrown is bullshit and lies and it's truly amazing how many people do it. I think I might actually be bored of most people
I have no tolerance for it at all. I've also outgrown comparing myself or my house to anyone else and for some reason most of the stuff on telly with the exception of true crime and really good documentaries.I
I'm now very sick of Christmas, used to love but now hold my breath until it's all over. I do like December though. It's just the boredom and same old rubbish year after year after sodding year. Nothing changed because I feel obligated to my elderly mother.

im only 42 but this thread is ringing a lot of bells for me. Chatting with a 50 yr old SIL and her teen DDs I was amazed that she enjoyed shopping as much as them and it nade me realise I did think seeing clothes shopping as a activity/enjoyable was more of a young woman thing.

I'm over:

• Alcohol: anything more than a couple of units makes me headachy, tired and unable to think straight the following day
• Most men (apart from a small handful of hand-picked ones). Certainly long since stopped caring about their opinions of me
• Caring about the opinions of people I don't really like in general
• Noisy pubs and bars where you have to shout to have a conversation
• Festivals: the mess and waste of money makes me feel tired, although I still go to gigs occasionally.

Never particularly been into clothes shopping: I started shopping online as soon as it was a thing and find standing around waiting for people to try things on terminally dull.

Still like a good quality night out (good food, good conversation) from time to time and would even consider a club in the right circumstances but quality over quantity.

I'm bored of....

UK television, especially the mind numbing reality shows, quizzes and game shows, and the slooooooooooooow dramas that last 6-8 episodes that could be done in 2 but padded out with lots of woke/irrelevant back stories, lingering shots of a single tear falling down someone's face, drone shots of cars driving down roads..... zzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

UK travel, whether roads or railways - too many people, too many delays/cancellations, too many roadworks with no one actually doing any work, too many accidents, too much bad driving. Quite happy to stay more local and cut right back on long journeys.

Shopping. No longer any fun, now an endurance test with shops having barely any breadth of stock, disinterested staff who have no knowledge and can't help you, long queues at the tills even though barely any customers because only one person on the tills whilst other staff are idly chatting elsewhere.

It's a good job I've got hobbies and love just walking in the countryside as I've completely lost interest in all the other things I used to love.

Never did spa days - couldn’t see the point
Hate eating out, takes ages and I could cook better myself.
Traffic jams - so annoying
Shopping - bored stiff of trying to find the right fit or look or what ever.
Cleaning - I do it, just not to the high polished standard I used to do.

Gigs. Really don't want to spend over the odds for the band to be drowned out by the karaoke crowd or people edging into my space in front of me (in the same row). And the number of over boozed bods up and down like feckin yo-yos.

That's before I even think about queues for the loo and the overpriced booze.

Socialising
Crowds
Men (and relationships in general)
City breaks - I'm in Amsterdam at the moment and I can't wait to get home.

Mind, I'm Autistic and didn't like much of the above past the age of 21 to start with!

Fuck you