To ask what’s made you think “I’m getting old” recently?

[overstimulatedhermit]

I’ve noticed I’ve got a favourite seat in the living room and it’s accumulated a few of my things on and around it like my handbag, sweets, book, medication (because it’s the only thing that helps me remember to take it) a couple of letters that I opened and haven’t put away yet and a pack of baby wipes.
Dh is watching the game just now and I’ve sat down in my spot and accidentally knocked my medication off the armrest. I turned to dh and said “ do you know what would be handy, a little table next to me so I can put all my bits and bobs on” 🤦🏻‍♀️ my life flashed before my eyes before the words finished leaving my mouth. I’m 41 by the way how has nobody told me about this monumental moment.

Getting in the car and vibing to every song, then suddenly being hit with the 'back to back throwbacks' jingle in between!! The horror. Throwbacks are Abba and the BeeGees surely?!

42 years old; needing an early night/lie in Friday night/Saturday morning to recover from the week of work/running errands.

I had to get varifocals last year, aged 40! 😱 always had crap eyesight , but that made me feel old…

It’s nice to be able to read labels again though!

I've finally succumbed to a weekly pill box with7 days of morning, noon and night tablet holders as I kept getting muddled with my meds.
I also have a mobile phone that mysteriously disappears on a daily basis and ditto a kindle.
I spend my life looking for things that I've put in a safe place that I can't remember!
Bohe.ian Rhapsody is 50 years old! 50!
Faints.

I’m in my late 60s, my friends are a similar age, and most of us have had at least one eye done.

The devastating age thing for me is that an unmarried relative, who I think of as being only slightly older than I am, is going into a care home from choice. She’s been having carers in several times a day, but has decided she’ll be more comfortable in a home.

FFS . FAINTS! not paints.

Getting varifocals
Having to think about when to bend my knees
Thinking about my plants
Dealing with emotional stress by needing to be outdoors

Apologies for typos I have neuropathy in my fingers.

The most recent one… one of my toes has started doing its own thing.. it’s like it’s slowly turning over into its side… I just want it back to how my others are! 😟

All of this, plus I have a table covered in stuff. (Actually, there are older women than me in the Senior Flex class.)

I'm 65.

At A&E recently and the doctor wasn’t a day over 12.

Three words: The Merlin App.

I love it.

Everywhere is too dark and too loud
I love buying plants at the supermarket
I have a favourite cardigan
if I go out without my reading glasses (Amazon purchase) DH has to read things for me
I’m considering purchasing a soup kettle
I’ve resisted myself to never going to an event where I can’t guarantee a seat
one of my favourite parts of Christmas is watching carols from kings (with baileys)

Having the over 50s offer pointed out to me at the garden centre without any hesitation or fear of causing offence.

Googling a symptom and having the initial rush of relief at "not usually serious..." replaced by a feeling of impending doom at "...although if you are over 50...."

What does it mean? I said something about having 6 or 7 minutes to do a task to my Y10 class on Friday and they all started sniggering. I guessed it was something rude but I forgot about it until just now! They’re a nice class too.

When you have a second 18 year old grandchild and later this year the first grandchild will be out of her teens.
Realising that we are a quarter the way through the 21st century yet we only celebrated the Millennium a couple of years ago, surely.

Got offered help when I was putting my shop trolley back today, I looked at the girl and was like oh wow I am now old hahahha

Same here too. I'm 53 and over the last couple of years my close up vision has deteriorated; I only realised how bad it was getting when I had to get the woman in the post office to fill in a form for me because I couldn't see the bloody thing. I now have 3 different prescriptions and 2 different pairs of varifocals. Ridiculous! 😂

Oh god! You've just made me realise I am the oldest person in my department.

Edit - just remembered there is someone two years older than me.

I'll raise all your little tables and confess I bought a three tier trolley on wheels which is narrow and sits between an armchair and the sofa. I use all three tiers.

In my defence I'm waiting for two hip replacements on two sticks now so find it useful to have everything around me . I've a charging station for my phone, tablet, kindle. Hand cream, nail files, clear polish on the bottom shelf, plus my heat pad. Then charging station and cables for gadgets on middle shelf. Then drinks and biscuits, meds on top shelf.

I can push it out of the way when we have visitors.

That's your spine or hips, nerves doing a funny little jig. It's weird

At the weekly pub quiz, or indeed on lots of TV quiz shows, I not only don't now the answers to the 'music' questions, I'm no nearer when I hear the answers! My go-to answer for the '80s is Duran Duran, anything current is Taylor Swift who I was surprised to learn a year ago is a woman, having only ever heard the name.

I'll raise you seborrheic keratosis 😂

Is it? I knew it was a ‘thing’ from seeing ‘old’ people’s toes so when I noticed this, I was like ‘oh no’ not this, please no! It’s just one thing after another… 😬😬