lynn Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Your cousins start looking like your grandparents....that is all. Add your "you know your getting old when" if you'd like. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaillardia Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 There are too many. :glare: You know you're old when...a certain tune I whistle my kids think came from a movie they watch that I have never seen or heard. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosika Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 You know you're getting old when the music you grew up on plays on the "oldies" station. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosika Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 You know you're getting old when the music you grew up on plays on the "oldies" station. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrapbookbuzz Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 (edited) ...when you look at former classmates current pictures with their spouses and your classmates look the same to you as they always did so you think, "Why did they marry a man so much older than them?" :tongue_smilie: (ETA: and their spouse is the same age or close to them IRL) Edited February 14, 2017 by scrapbookbuzz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraidycat Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 You go get your eyes checked and the optometrist tells you you'll probably need bifocals in the next few years. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaillardia Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Today when I was whining talking about getting my laundry done, I reminded my teens that I would do my parents' laundry, in a wringer washer machine, use a rinse sink, hang it out on the line, take it down when it was dry, hang it on hangers and put it away, and iron my dad's work shirts. I had to run water into the washer. My dh said I had to get up at the break of day to get it started, which isn't true, but it made me laugh. His dad always worked in the electronics sector so their family always had the latest items to make his mom's life easier. :glare: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barb_ Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 When you climb on the chair to change a lightbulb and your 20-something rushes to break your potential fall. You realize you remember your GRANDMA at the same age. You realize your parents had been empty nesters for 5 years already at your age. You're about to graduate out of the strongest readers Costco carries You don't have time for that anymore. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 You don't have time for that anymore. This. And when you realize why your parents have been right all along about the governmentese in the Medicare and Social Security enrollment instructions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 (edited) There are too many. :glare: You know you're old when...a certain tune I whistle my kids think came from a movie they watch that I have never seen or heard. or computer game.... (they dragged me to see guardians of the galaxy - and I remember when most of those songs were NEW.) seeing a clock in a 20+ year old movie (that was cheap enough they repeatedly destroyed it) that I actually had. 15 years BEFORE the movie was released. when you're kids start buying houses. and yeah - my mother had several grandchildren at my age . . . . eta: and about that clock - I remember waking up to the music, what radio station, and getting up on saturday morning to go skiing . . .and being so excited I couldn't go to sleep. Edited February 14, 2017 by gardenmom5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnE-girl Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 You know you're getting old when the music you grew up on plays on the "oldies" station. It's been a few years since I heard a song I used to dance to at the bars in college, when it was new, on the "lite FM" station, while driving my minivan home from the grocery store. I blasted it with my windows rolled down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 My youngest dd asked me what a roll of film is. (She was reading a Boxcar Children book.) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitestavern Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 When your body's sore for three days after going skiing... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 When the songs of your youth are now used in luxury car commercials. When you look in the mirror and wonder when your mom got there. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Elf Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 When my youngest went to college. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewe Mama Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 (edited) You buy 15 pair of reading glasses at one time from the Dollar Tree because you keep forgetting where you put the other ones. ETA: Yes, I really just did this. Edited February 14, 2017 by Ewe Mama 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storygirl Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 (edited) When your blonde hair needs a touch up, due to white, not dark, roots. Edited February 14, 2017 by Storygirl 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Girls' Mom Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 (edited) When your cousins ARE grandparents. When you are watching the latest Jason Bourne movie and notice all of Matt Damon's gray hair. When you are watching the latest Jack Reacher movie and Tom Cruise looks very, very middle aged. When Keifer Sutherland has grandbabies. And these were the teen idols of your youth that are supposed to still be in their 20s. ETA: Also, when your BABIES are dating adults. :glare: Edited February 14, 2017 by The Girls' Mom 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaceyinLA Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 When your babies have babies. Weren't they your babies just yesterday? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 When my youngest went to college. this is why you start over in your 40s. dudeing was born the year 1dd graduated from college. I will have been parenting for 40 years when he goes. wow . . . that's a long time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barb_ Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 this is why you start over in your 40s. dudeing was born the year 1dd graduated from college. I will have been parenting for 40 years when he goes. wow . . . that's a long time.Well I was going to say that makes me feel tired but then I realized I'll have been parenting for 37 when my youngest leaves for college. Thanks a lot for making me do the math :glare: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 When Keifer Sutherland has grandbabies. Wait, what?!? la la la la la la I can't hear you...... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom22ns Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 this is why you start over in your 40s. dudeing was born the year 1dd graduated from college. I will have been parenting for 40 years when he goes. wow . . . that's a long time. Now you tell me. I'll be out of my 40s in a few months and my kids are both off at college. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teacher Mom Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 When you first get out of bed and do the "my feet hurt shuffle" -- kinda like the Tim Conway old man walk. Also when you have to explain your examples, like who Tim Conway was and what was the Carol Burnett show. When you see Don Johnson and he looks old---still good but old. I was totally in love with that man. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 You know you're getting old when the music you grew up on plays on the "oldies" station. Worse, the elevator! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 When you can't have certain things after, say, 3pm. (I'm looking at you, onions and coffee!) When the only criteria for buying underthings and shoes is COMFORT. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingaway Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 ...You mistake yourself for one of your aunts in a recent photo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 When you have to give up popcorn because it doesn't agree with your dental work... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Another one: you get rid of all the Dickens and Thackery and ___ books that you have dusted for 30 years because you're going to read those someday. No, you're not. And you don't care who knows it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Worse, the elevator! My supermarket had the best music playing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 When you realize that your oldest child is older than you were when she was born. when you're oldest child (who has no children) is older than you were when you had FOUR children! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 You know your getting old when your original edition of The Well-Trained Mind is signed by Jesse Wise. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocolate-chip chooky Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 When you're nodding along to waaaaaay too many of these replies. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluegoat Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 When you see a picture of yourself and you look just like your great-grandmother. When you watch tv and people who you remember as youthful romantic leads are playing elder statesmen or the dying father of the middle aged hero. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluegoat Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Wait, what?!? la la la la la la I can't hear you...... I remember seeing his first film, when he was about 15... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Only me Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 When you see the topic of classes meant for 50-55 and up designated as senior classes and you are 50. I'm not saying anything bad about the other post but it just caught me off guard that I might be considered a senior citizen to some. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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