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.

I know exactly what you mean. Sometimes they are 2 years younger and you can't believe how ancient they are 😀

Omg I've started doing this..I've convinced myself that all writing on labels have recently been deliberately shrunk just to save money or something. It cannot be age. I won't have it!

Working at an event for the local university and telling one of the students that I attended this myself… twenty years ago. I’m not even very old, I can’t be!

It really ruins your day 😂

My eye sight

Aside from my horrendous lax ligaments & tendons making every day a roulette of “which joint is going to hurt today”, I realised yesterday that I can’t poop sweep the garden without my glasses on anymore 😂🤦‍♀️

I went to a social history museum recently. The staff there told me they were having a clear out. They explained that they needed to update the museum for modern visitors and wanted to display more stuff from the 70s. The 70s! Things from a decade I was alive in are now deemed museum worthy.

Eyesight esp near sightedness

Turned on radio 2 last night and they were playing club classics from my youth. Made me realise I'm very middle aged indeed

I do loads of these.

I placed my order at a coffee shop and the woman said "my mum always orders that too" and I realised that she'd immediately put me in her mum's bracket. It felt weird for a working adult to group me with her mum rather than herself. I probably am about the age of her mum but I forget that sometimes so it was just a moment of 'oh yeah, I'm old'

Yes, this happened to us! Out for a birthday with my female friends and we thought we would go for a drink at a coastal pub which used to be one of our haunts back in the day for a bit of nostalgia.

We bumped into a group of boys we were in school with who were doing exactly the same thing.. following a funeral. They were thoroughly bald, overweight, divorced, depressed (probably due to the funeral) and I remember us girls having a conversation between us thinking do we look this old? The consensus was that we probably did!

Genuinely I saw a policeman the other day and thought he didn't look old enough to have left school 🤦.

Totally outside of everyone else, but my mate got a new pony and the bloke delivering said "jump on him bareback". If Id been a teenager or 20s maybe but Ill be damned if I'm getting on a 14hh pony by leaping at my age 🤣

The inability to sleep past 6.30 am (a TRAGEDY)

I groan - a lot

I say ‘oooooh lovely’ to a moderately tasty biscuit and hot cup of tea

Things like Britain’s got talent or anything ‘singing’ just makes me cringe and sounds like a blast of intolerable noise

I can’t drink more than 1 glass of wine unless I want the entire next day to be a total write off

I want cosy socks for Christmas

And I’m only in my thirties!!

Oh 100% this!! I only ride my horse with my hat securely on, tack triple checked and if I think he looks a bit wild (reader, he is a chubby native, he is NEVER wild) then I’ll lunge him first!! I 🫨🫨🫨 now when I think of the things I did as a teenager!! My poor mother

I had the same when I mentioned the Spice Girls. Someone said "oh yeah I think my mum remembers them" 😱.

Oh, also thinking that anyone under the age of 20 is beautiful because they have youth 🤣 I truly am my mother

Fine hair on my jawline
Sore stiff joints
Awful stress incontinence 😞
Waking early
Feel more tired
Beginnings of arthritis in joints
Periods even though I don't want more dc.
Feeling ancient in the gym
Not understanding the teen speak my dc use and conversely them not understanding my humour

I know I should be grateful to get older, but getting older still sucks 😔

When I mind my two grandchildren for a couple of hours and then have to lie down in a dark room to recover.

Can't tolerate being drunk anymore - one glass of wine and that is me done 🙃

I’m now the oldest and ugliest person in team meetings, rather than the youngest most gorgeous one I used to be. Teams (online now) meetings are cruel!

Catching sight of myself in reflection at work I realised I'm a shorter, fatter version of my DAD, but with long hair. Honestly made myself jump 😭

I've never been pretty, but yikes I've aged like milk

There's always a minor ache or pain SOMEWHERE.

Got varifocals. And can't really get used to them. Take them off to read just like before.

I don't think there's anything the slightest bit U about wanting a table by your chair. (I have one on each side). I mean, where do you put your drinks?

I'm only 3 or 4 retirements away from being the oldest in my department. I'm not even THAT old..it's terrifying.

I feel about 19 mentally. I can keep up with what my teens are talking about, I usually know what is trending etc.

When my DDs refer to me as "cute" it makes me feel about 103! We'll be having a conversation and 18 year old DD1 will say "aw, you're so cute mum! I tell everyone how cute my mum is!" 😂

I used to think that my Grandma was cute. A cute, little old lady. That's how my DDs see me 😭.