Lazybones!

watermeadow I am 81 and like you, bone idle. I do have mobility problems and am partially sighted but I could do more. I could spend 24/7 on this machine!

I think that at around eighty having had a life of work and possibly bringing up children you can do as much or as little as you like.
Having had a job and children I had very little time for myself. Now I'm in my late seventies I feel this is my time and I can do what I feel like.

If it’s affecting no one else, then it’s up to you what you want to do. Stay in bed all day and read a book, or watch tv with your dinner on a tray in front of you, if it makes you happy. Live life for yourself, not other people.

If you are content what else is important - nowt.

Don't feel guilty Watermeadow enjoy life in your own way.

As long as you’re happy watermeadow what you do suits you, then why worry or overthink? I believe a lot of busy-ness is unnecessary. Some people just seem to find it hard to relax. Strange that. I’m with your tribe!
#lazygran

My sis-in-law is 5 years older than me and 2x as active. Just reading what she’s done this morning has put me to shame.

Some days I want to ‘crack eggs with sticks’ but other times, I just want a day of mooching around.

I’ve no one to please but myself now.

Cracking eggs with sticks sounds quite attractive to me.
🤣
Akin to (say) doing a jigsaw or listening to a podcast!

What a great phrase BTW.
Never heard it before!

#building a pebble house

I'm sort of with most other people and think that if it doesn't affect anyone else then do what you want, and like most people I enjoy a day of doing nothing.

But part of me is well aware that laziness is habit forming (for me, at least) and I know for a fact that the less I do the less I want to do. It's true that you use it or lose it so for now at least I prefer to keep using it, brain and body, until such time as I can't. Having said that I'm nowhere near eighty, so maybe when I'm eighty I'll be more inclined to just sit back and do nothing.

I am so pleased to read this.I am 75 and in poor health. I love reading what others are up to but I feel exhausted just reading it all sometimes. I would like to go out more.I am in a wheelchair and my lovely husband takes me out and about as much as he can. However I am quite happy to read and go on social media. Best Wishes to all of you.

I make myself go out for a walk every day and thoroughly enjoy each and every one but, even though I know that, I still faff about unnecessarily before getting over the threshold. Nuts but....there y'go. Wish I understood it myself.

Watermeadow
Shame we can’t share. I have a lot of energy and I’m always doing something.
Hand on heart I wish I could relax more. Some days I have good intentions to just watch the films I have saved.
Then I look out the window see something in the garden that needs doing or think of something I want to do in my sewing room.

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A dear friend died, but she’d said to me “why do we waste so much of our life doing housework”.
These made me laugh:

I'm 68 and feel the say way!! I can't find the motivation to keep dusting and polishing the same old things. As for gardening, my knees and back won't allow me to stoop and bend, so that is left to DH now. I am full of good intentions, but easily distracted by more fulfilling things. Don't worry about it, just do what you feel like doing (I do).

The days that I do nothing always leave me with a feeling of guilt, absolutely no idea why! I have friends older than me who are really active, but I just don’t seem to have their energy.

Just do as you please and please don't feel any guilt. We are all entitled at our ages to do what makes us happy.
No reason for rushing around. Just be happy 😊

AreWeThereYet

I'm sort of with most other people and think that if it doesn't affect anyone else then do what you want, and like most people I enjoy a day of doing nothing.

But part of me is well aware that laziness is habit forming (for me, at least) and I know for a fact that the less I do the less I want to do. It's true that you use it or lose it so for now at least I prefer to keep using it, brain and body, until such time as I can't. Having said that I'm nowhere near eighty, so maybe when I'm eighty I'll be more inclined to just sit back and do nothing.

Very well said. My husband would like to buy the word lazy from my vocabulary! He says I’m really bad at relaxing. My mum is nearly 91 and just starting a new project to sand and repaint her little bedroom chair! She still does all her own housework, and some gardening, including mowing the lawn. But some days she gets up and doesn’t feel like doing anything - so she doesn’t. And spends the day looking at YouTube videos, and doing puzzles. She’s careful not to get into the cycle of ‘ the less you do the less you want to do’. There is evidence from people living in ‘blue zones’ around the world that people who stay as active as possible active stay healthy for longer. Of course, activity doesn’t have to equal housework, gardening or other chores you resent. Shirley, our age we’ve earned the right to choose how we spend our time? I find I don’t notice the weeding quite so much if I listen to a podcast, audio book etc while I’m doing it. (PS Blue zones are areas where people there are lots of people living exceptionally long lives - and staying healthier for longer.)

Unless you feel bothered by this don’t break a sweat, you do the bare bones of stuff that needs doing so who cares?
As long as you are taking care of yourself, eating well and feeling ok in yourself, go and do whatever you want, and if you want to do nothing that’s your prerogative.

I’m 82 …..and occasionally I give myself “ a snow day”…..a recall of memories past…….a day to relax and simply cocoon indoors because of a mammoth snowfall during the night and even by morning the snowploughs haven’t managed to clear the local roads ……and the schools have had close too! Nothing much to do but relax, stay warm and cosy and take it easy!

But I also know that if I adopt a too regular routine like this, my body adapts to this ‘no exertion’ lifestyle, and I really don’t like this idea either. So, back I go to the gym three mornings a weeks so I get to socialize with my happy little community there and to get the blood flowing again. All just because I want to reawaken my love of life so my body doesn’t complain and I can continue to enjoy the hobbies that keep me happy and curious and feeling grateful for just living.

‘ban’

Dcba

I’m 82 …..and occasionally I give myself “ a snow day”…..a recall of memories past…….a day to relax and simply cocoon indoors because of a mammoth snowfall during the night and even by morning the snowploughs haven’t managed to clear the local roads ……and the schools have had close too! Nothing much to do but relax, stay warm and cosy and take it easy!

But I also know that if I adopt a too regular routine like this, my body adapts to this ‘no exertion’ lifestyle, and I really don’t like this idea either. So, back I go to the gym three mornings a weeks so I get to socialize with my happy little community there and to get the blood flowing again. All just because I want to reawaken my love of life so my body doesn’t complain and I can continue to enjoy the hobbies that keep me happy and curious and feeling grateful for just living.

Sounds perfect x

I was wasting time the other day scrolling through Facebook and came across this poem. It made me laugh out loud as that described me at that very moment!

It is nine thirty in the morning
I must now make a start,
I need to get the hoover out
Stop being a lazy tart,
I shall dust, and sweep, and tidy,
The house will soon begin to glow
As with my trusty tin of Pledge, a-dusting I will go
I’ll check my phone before I start
That took an hour or so,
And then I mentally tick myself off
"Get up you sloth and go",
But I glimpse a crossword empty
In my Take A Break,
I cannot leave that undone
So another half hour I take,
By now it is eleven
And time to make a brew,
I shall also have a biscuit, oh f**k it I’ll take two
Ready, steady, here I go
My pinny's tied on tight,
In half an hour I will be done
The house all clean and bright,
I shall pick up and put some things away
Before I wash the floor,
But once more get distracted
By the postman at the door,
Oh joy! Oh bliss! why look at this!
My magazine has come,
And before I even know it, I am sat down on my bum.
The clock chimes two
Oh deary me
I have not yet begun
What was it I was doing?
What should I have begun?
My polish and my cloth and my vacuum look and stare
While I look round the house from the comfort of my chair
Oh shite with this I whisper, what was it Scarlett said?
"Tomorrow is another day"
I shall clean it then instead.