I feel really old now!

I’ve been getting mine for fifteen years now, very welcome it is,too.

I had a letter from the pensions people today saying that there had been an error in their calculations and that I am now emailed to WFA. That did make me feel old in a way that getting my state pension didn’t. Weird!

My dd sent me a screen shot that my little GD had taken of me reading a story online to her. I looked hideous in the photo and told my dd to delete it. She said ‘But that’s the best photo!’ ???

entitled not emailed. DYAC.

Covid and letting my hair go grey has aged me. But never mind I have my health and thats more important.

Accept graciously and enjoy! When I'm asked if I would like help putting groceries into my shopper I smile sweetly and say "Yes please"! No sense in fighting against it.

When I was in my early 50’s a sales assistant at a famous chemists beginning with B asked me if I’d like to apply for an over 60’s discount card. I was furious and embarrassed her when I explained that I was nowhere near 60. I was particularly cross because B .... should have trained her to be far more diplomatic and not ASSUME someone’s age. I didn’t even look over 60 (I like to think!!)

I for one am feeling really glad to be old at the moment. (I'm 71).
I don't have to go to work, so not risking my life, or losing my job or my income as I have pensions. My children are grown up now so I don't have to worry about their being in school with Covid, or have to keep them entertained at home, or get them to do school work.
I've had my flu jab and my first Covid jab.
I'm not a teenager wanting to see my boyfriend or pals. I can Sykpe or phone friends and family, but don't need to be in a pub or cafe with them.
I do miss open mic nights and travel, but I can wait, and in fact enjoy being at home, doing whatever I like.
I feel very lucky to be having to go through the pandemic at the age I am. I'm not too old so I can look after myself.
It must be dreadful for most other people though, in fact anyone who is below retirement age.
So no complaints from me.

I'm having one of my "feel old days", today not necessarily through aches and pains but by seeing a catch photograph of myself that my husband took to send to his sister. I looked really old. Fact is fact I suppose. Made me feel bit sad.

I am 74, and always feel “young”, well I did until my wonderful granddaughter came round at Christmas, saw all the twinklie lights we had put in the garden and declared” How lovely, twinklies with the wrinklies” ??????

I felt old at 55 when a mum with children said mind the old lady. I have osteoarthritis and use a stick. It was at a bus station and I did have my face mask on and woolly hat and hood up. I can only put it down to her not being able to see my face but but it upset me xx

I would never use the title Old Age Pensioner, I am State Retired. My husband became old at 65 yrs, and started telling people i am an old age pensioner. Smile.

I have been receiving the fuel allowance for 5 years and received it with thanks. Through you years all I have had as a hand out was family allowance, bus pass and heating allowance. I worked from the age of 16 until I retired and was lucky enough to always work and pay my taxes so I don't feel guilty. I do make the most of it because you never know when it will be stopped.

I am 69 and don't feel old and during the first lockdown when I went to go into M&S before 9.00 a staff member rushed over the me and told me I could not come in before 9.00 as it was pensioners only. I was chuffed but was going to ask her if she had had her eyes checked lately but didn't. I just skipped out of the shop with a smile on my face.

Espee I have heard that too. And during the only Saga holiday I have been on there was a bit of that going on...quite a bit!! Or so I was told!!

After the death of my husband when I was 41 - I developed Glaucoma. My Mother bought me a "white stick"!!! I am still not completely blind, though I do only have limited sight in one eye. I'm now 73. n.b. I did carry the white stick once or twice when travelling on business. People did not understand that I had limited vision (I had no peripheral vision, and bumped into people in crowded city centres). I felt REALLY old AND Vulnerable when doing this. I worried that I might be attacked because of my limited vision. When I am totally blind, I doubt very much if I will have the courage to go out alone. Thanks Mum!

I think I prefer Sex And Games for the Aged to Send A Granny Away. It sounds much more fun!!

NannyJan53, a naughty old man once told me that SAGA stands for Sex and Games for the Aged. Puts rather a day light on it, doesn't it?

Being old is a privilege denied to many. Enjoy it!

I felt old the first time I used my bus pass! I was hoping the bus driver wouldn’t believe it was mine!

I didn’t feel too old last year when I turned 60, but when my daughter was 30 in the same year I felt ancient! Weird or what?

I have a daughter who'll be 60 in a couple of weeks time----how do you think I feel ? Hahahahaha. And oldest great grandchildren ( twins ) will be 15 this year.
I think I'm ever so lucky, really I do.

Wow Ellan! Congratulations on the great grandchildren, how lovely is that?

DS will be 50 this year, I am well behind many of you, but I suspect that will bring me up fast and realise how time has past.

I bought a mirror for the hall.

Bad idea, it shows, all too clearly, my collection of wrinkles - just before I go out to face the world.

(I must swap it for a picture from somewhere else.)

I have got the WFA for several years. I do not need it, but I don't see the Govt doing anything else useful with it. So I give it to a homeless charity with instructions that it it a one off and not to keep on at me about donations.
I have no idea about the £10 that has started turning up.

The list of things I carry around with me gets longer makes me feel old: glasses, liners, fixodent, but apart from that I tell people I stuck at 35 ?