ok since I turned 50 , bastard country casuals have started emailing ..wtf!

[ggirl]

my mum would shop htere ffs

please reassure me it's not meant for my age group

I don't know what youmean

I have no crepey skin and no one has ever noticed my botox Don't have grey hair so not sure yet! Still having periods here too so not sure where you get your info

at queenie

wish I had stopped having periods actually

no grey here either

Oh dear. My response is the same as Pinot's

Although my mother keeps saying things like "you should get a nice jacket like mine". And despite pointing out she has 30 years on me thank you very much, she persists in actually buying me wrong generation shit. At least you can throw a catalogue in the bin. My mother won't bloody fit

Start returning your old biddy catalogues to sender and join the mail preference service or you'll start running the risk of becoming immune... and before you know it you're buying shoes because they look "comfortable" and saying things like "well those slacks do look very practical".

It's the only way

PMSL at 'only a decade left of good health', er, actually speaking as health journalist, that is just not true.

I've never done court shoes, and am not going to start now.

CelineMcBean impressed that you actually send the brochures back!
Do you just stick a return to sender label on?
Does it stop them coming?

My recycling bag is full of the buggers at the end of the week!

Yep I return to sender. I usually scrawl on the front with a marker pen "Return to sender - not known at this address". It stops them coming again. I don't have a recycling collection from my house so it's easier to send dh to the postbox with an armful every now and then instead of the recycling. Stickers would be much easier.

If it's a company I have definitely declined marketing from I have been known to open the mailing and shove their crap back in their own envelope and return it to them as "Does not accept unsolicited mailings". I find it very therapeutic

Nothing seems to be able to stop ELC mailing my toddler though. But at least it's age appropriate...

I keep getting sent Hotter shoes catalogues, and the type of catalogues that has pull on bras in it. I'm only 43

Those Hotter shoe shops are spreading like fungus.

It's because the over 55's hold over 80% of the nation's wealth.

sorry queenie...sense of humour loss there

I would be happy to receive clothes catalogues of any description.

For some reason, since I turned 50, I keep getting travel brochures delivered to me for tours of battle sites and war memorials.

But why would anyone over or under 55 wear Hotter??

I quite fancy holding slightly more of the nation's wealth

There's a Hotter shoes just opened in Inverness.
I haven't been in it yet.
Is it crap?

Inverness is rubbish for shops.

It's dire beagle. The K soft line at Clarks is more stylish.

Mind you there is something quite commendable about the don't give a stuff attitude that goes along with a hotter shoe.

Cc has that air of someone who is still trying to keep up with it. They really shouldn't waste their time and just trundle off to the classics section at M&S instead.

I think poly once the oestrogen drys up the joints do too so the comfy shoe comes into it's own.

When I'm old I'll be all sorts of eyesore Gudrun Sjoden. Yes indeed.

ggirl I'm so excited about my new tumble drier, I have a delay timer on my washer, wish I had one on my oven,love Lakeland plastics,knit, wear vests, slippers and reading glasses that I peer over.............BUT I hate granny clothes, will never shop in Eastex, CC etc even when I'm 80 (45). Love this thread......noddy you always make me laugh!

shudder at Hotter...I once bought a pair of shoes for work there (nurse) , wore them once then sold on ebay....beyond disgusting

will be getting Saga brochures soon I expect

can you take a 10yr old on a Saga holiday?

Queenie

FFS woman- are you serious?
Let's be honest 50 is getting on a bit frankly. You have probably got crepe skin and are through the menopause pretty much. Only about a decade of good health before it all goes into sudden decline for most.

50 is old. Botox shows as does hair dye. Dressing younger looks like someone old dressing younger.

Christ what a patronising and ignorant post.

Me and my friends are almost/around 50- we do not have crepey skin, we don't do grey hair, we / them/some of us are still having periods at 54.

freddie I think queenie was taking the piss....she did say it was tongue in cheek......really chill out!!!!!

I have a cotton jumper thing from The Edinburgh Woollen Mill...it was a present when I was sixteen (now early twenties).

But, it is very comfy and I was complimented on it being 'slouchy' by a 15 year old the other day so perhaps it's more trendy than we think.

There's no hope for me is there?