You know your getting old when.....

[lynn]

Your cousins start looking like your grandparents....that is all.

 

Add your "you know your getting old when" if you'd like.

[gaillardia]

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.

[Rosika]

You know you're getting old when the music you grew up on plays on the "oldies" station.

 

 

 

[Rosika]

You know you're getting old when the music you grew up on plays on the "oldies" station.

 

 

 

[scrapbookbuzz]

...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

[fraidycat]

You go get your eyes checked and the optometrist tells you you'll probably need bifocals in the next few years.

[gaillardia]

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:

 

[Barb_]

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.

[Guest]

 

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.

[gardenmom5]

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

[AnnE-girl]

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.

[Another Lynn]

My youngest dd asked me what a roll of film is.  (She was reading a Boxcar Children book.)

[whitestavern]

When your body's sore for three days after going skiing...

[kewb]

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.

[Night Elf]

When my youngest went to college.

[Ewe Mama]

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

[Storygirl]

When your blonde hair needs a touch up, due to white, not dark, roots.

Edited February 14, 2017 by Storygirl

[The Girls' Mom]

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

[StaceyinLA]

When your babies have babies. Weren't they your babies just yesterday?

[gardenmom5]

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.

[Barb_]

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:

[kewb]

 

When Keifer Sutherland has grandbabies.

 

 

 

Wait, what?!?  la la la la la la I can't hear you......

[Mom22ns]

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.

[Teacher Mom]

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.

[shawthorne44]

You know you're getting old when the music you grew up on plays on the "oldies" station.

 

Worse, the elevator!    

[alisoncooks]

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.  

[flyingaway]

...You mistake yourself for one of your aunts in a recent photo.

[alisoncooks]

When you have to give up popcorn because it doesn't agree with your dental work...

[Guest]

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.  

[kewb]

Worse, the elevator!

My supermarket had the best music playing.

[gardenmom5]

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!

[KungFuPanda]

You know your getting old when your original edition of The Well-Trained Mind is signed by Jesse Wise.

[chocolate-chip chooky]

When you're nodding along to waaaaaay too many of these replies.

[Bluegoat]

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.

[Bluegoat]

Wait, what?!?  la la la la la la I can't hear you......

 

I remember seeing his first film, when he was about 15...

[Only me]

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.