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.

47 here. Only recently started feeling “old” - clicky hip, varifocals, noticing actual wrinkles. However, I still listen to radio 1 and actually enjoy most of the music, so ya know, am down with the kids innit?

I have to ask the kids what ChatGPT is

I understand, ours is downstairs too. Such a trek

Getting up from a chair or the floor after spending a bit too long on it (like 30 mins). Ouch! I'm limping like I'm 80.
Also a silly app which tells me I look 50 when I'm a mere 47 years old!

In a pub quizz I realised I loved all the old 80s power ballads, REO speed wagon, Chicago and so on. I used to think they were soppy and naff at the time.

Also I can't do any weeding ( in good weather ) without it putting my back out the next day.

My face 😔

The scales. They tell me I'm 70 every time I weigh myself.

If I do any of the following:

drink alcohol
eat after 7
caffeine after midday
don’t exercise during the day
too many carbs at dinner

I will be wide awake between 12-4am. This will take me a week to recover from.

There is no slack in the system. I am a precious, wilting flower.

When I realised that my kids are now too old to have any more kids.

Also, I have gained a stone without eating more or doing anything different.

I have the lamp thing mentioned upthread too - the light often seems so gloomy when it's not sunshine outside, so I put on a lamp in the living room (do you still call it a living room?)

My once lush eyelashes are sparse little hairs.

I could go on...

I’m 60.

My bloody neck. 😡

it will happen 😀but it's ok, when it does you just think they are miraculous! It only happened to me at about 55 though so hopefully you have a little way to go

I was at the mirror in the gym, clocking my 57 year old post workout self looking like Alice Cooper when this stunning vision of twenty something beauty appeared beside me.
Five foot eleven, spectacular body, glowing skin, flawless makeup and arse length suprr shiny hair.

It was a moment.
🤣

I am the oldest in my team at work (by far). When I told them I was excited as I was going to see Deacon Blue there were blank looks all round. I am the same age as most of their parents!

Wondering why babies go to school, and why police officers look like children. People referring to the 70s and 80s as the olden days. Being invisible to men, being patronised (‘oh bless’), people thinking they know a lot more than me despite having lived on the planet for half the time that I have, not being able to lift very heavy things any more, not being able to eat or drink as much as before, saying ‘ooh’ every time I sit down or get up.

That entire sentence went over my head 🤷🏼‍♂️

I’m actually crying 🤣😭

Reading glasses from Poundland and making a noise when I get up.

I keep saying "I don't know what the world's coming to". Also "Is that a thing now...?" in that faux bewildered way that implies disapproval.
And I'm not impersonating my mum when i do this anymore.

Enjoying wear full knickers, I got some by mistake, but they are so comfy. I recently had an ecg before an operation, asked to undo my bra and afterwards did I need help doing it up again, I’m 64 not 94. After operation and back in bed, nurse came to escort me to the toilet and sounded really astonished that I had managed to go all by myself.

Had to give my year of birth to a lovely young store assistant in H & M and I thought “ god, I’m old”. Then there’s the fact that I’m even referring to her as a lovely young person. 😣
In my job, I sometimes have to ask people’s date of birth, and when they say some date post 2000 I always think they’ve made a mistake.

This is so true. And I never realised you could close up on your phone!

Magnifying mirror, a pair of magnifying glasses with little lights on, insoles for every pair of shoes, a heated blanket, a little stool so I can use the hair straightener without having to sit on floor, a back scratcher, a sponge on handle to wash my feet in the shower…I could go on!

Taking a picture of a label so that o can zoom in to read it
Ive been doing this for a few years.
Mainly with menus, especially if the lighting is dim.

It doesn't always work well with a coloured back ground and tiny writing. Ive struggled with some hair product instructions and some Indian pastes, it might be Pateks that have a purple background.

I was chatting to an older man on the bus then realised he was 2 years me above at school, bloody depressed me the rest of the day !

I now regularly wear my glasses on the end of my nose so I can peer over them. I need to use one of those triangular metal things to open bottle tops that are too tight, I have started getting really irritated with small things that previously wouldn't have bothered me in the slightest - my bullshit tolerance meter is much more sensitive....