Your age v2
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My husband turns 65 this year. We must get half a dozen things about Medicare supplementals every day in the mail. And we’re both in the Social Security group that doesn’t get full benefits until 67 so he’s working until then anyway. Just very annoying waste of paper
Yes, I'm getting all that as well. Plus constant invites to retirement planning seminars.
At 30 I still went out a lot and could run 4-5 days a week, no problem, etc. By 40 it's all PT and maintenance and hangover are terrible. To boot you become the age that used to get mocked like 'some 40 year old dude at the bar' type stuff.
I remember being younger and hearing stuff about when your in your 40's and laughed it off. I'm not laughing now.
I'm 42 but have mobility of 80. Maybe that's how they are justifying that.
Yet @CycloneRulzzz has the digital dexterity of a 20 year old!
I know that you are joking, but they know enough to manage to vote in the poll so I'm sure they know how to reply to a thread. I say "hats off to the 80+ ers". I have a lot of respect for them. There are quite a few on here that will never make it to that age.
I get all of my Social Security, adult diaper, and reverse mortgage information while watching Mannix and Perry Mason.
I agree with the others: all of them went by in a blur.
The older you get, the faster life seems to go by. When our boys graduated HS, I remember telling my Mom I was looking forward to life slowing down. She just laughed and said it will seem to go by faster. She's right.
My age has never bothered me (I'll be 58 this summer); I really like the version of me in my 50s more than the younger versions of me. Though sometimes it is shocking to look in the mirror and not see someone in their 30s looking back.
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How about cremation services? That'll motivate you to clean off the treadmill.
30s - really ******* fun. Some drama (divorce, economic ruin....**** like that), but really ******* fun
40s - seemed to last forever. Really ******* fun.
In general time is like a roll of toilet paper. When you crack open that roll it takes a while to make a full turn.
As you get closer to the end it goes around faster.
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And the hearing aides brochures and the new assisted living facilities advertisements.
I'm still getting the Russian Brides ads, when do those turn to the care center ones?
The real killer on this is a friend of mine who is about six months younger than me and her husband is same age as mine.
They get all this crap in the mail and they have a ten year old daughter! She found out she was pregnant when she was 51 and he was 54, their oldest son was 30, and they already had three grandkids. And it took her until four months in to know, she thought it was menopause.
So the husband is hoping to work as long as he can for insurance for the daughter at least until she is 18, but that puts him at 72! He apparently has better insurance than the wife, especially dental. He’s worried about braces, not Medicare supplementals.
At least we live in a small enough town that no one mistakes them for her grandparents any more. But instead of Walker, Texas Ranger and Bonanza, they watch a lot of The Babysitter’s Club.
